Almost the rule of fifty
At The New York Times, Mo Willems tells how he enlarges his exposure to new kinds of books.…
Stricter than the Rule of Fifty
Tavi Gevinson cites an even stricter observance at the New York Times: [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/arts/television/tavi-gevinson-gossip-girl-assassins.html] > 7. Abandoning books I started finishing a lot more books once I started abandoning ones that I wasn’t compelled to finish, but would just carry…
Just Put it Down
At the New York Times, Lionel Shriver gives a hearty endorsement to the rule of fifty. > Disappointing, overrated, just not good: What book did you feel as if you were supposed to like, and didn’t? Do you remember the last book you put down without finishing? > For…
A Relaxed View of the Rule of Fifty
Disappointing, overrated, just not good: What book did you feel as if you were supposed to like, and didn’t? Do you remember the last book you put down without finishing? I tend to finish things, holding out hope. Sometimes what seems like a slog can bring you to a…
A Contemporary Take on the Rule of Fifty
Emily St. John Mandel in The New York Times today [https://nyti.ms/3bk8hYT]: > I often put books down without finishing them. Unless you’re reading for research and need to just power through to absorb information, I think it’s possible that life’s too short to spend…
An early form of the rule of fifty
> I am not prepared to bash my brains for anything, not even for learning’s sake however precious it may be. From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime … If I come across difficult passages in my reading I never bite my nails…
Just to restate
> When should you quit reading a book? A librarian -- of course -- offers some solid advice: pic.twitter.com/53RTPOTr37 [https://t.co/53RTPOTr37] — Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) January 3, 2020 [https://twitter.com/DanielPink/status/1213148136002199561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
Pamela Paul shows us how it's done
> I’m typically averse to interviews (even I wrote into my #Figuring [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Figuring?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] contract that I’d be doing none besides my conversation with the wondrous @GilbertLiz [https://twitter.com/GilbertLiz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] tonight). But then…