Reading up to 2024
Perhaps it’s more helpful to think of collecting books like collecting wine: you pick up novels you know you will enjoy at some time in the future. That time might be right now, or it might be next year. Like a bottle of Sancerre, you’ll bring it down off the shelf at the perfect moment, when you’ll enjoy it most. That’s okay, even encouraged,... See more
This year, I read ten important historical novels: Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, To The Lighthouse, Bleak House, Portrait of a Lady, Anna Karenina, Life and Fate, Heart of Darkness, Madame Bovary, and The Magic Mountain.
Reflections:
• Four of these are more than 800 pages long. The Magic Mountain... See more
Patrick Collisonx.comI have a friend who doesn't read anything published in the past 50 years, and the more I think about it, the more I think he's onto something.
The reason is that time is the best filter we have for quality. People are bad at judging quality in the moment but very good at getting rid of junk over time.... See more
David Perellx.com