Not quite the Rule of Fifty

but related, I think. > The Value of Reading Things We Disagree with: "By not saying what we quite wished to hear, the author brings us into contact with what we truly believe, and does us the service of releasing us from our intellectual underconfidence and languor." Read…

Three-quarters done?

> .@lizrenzetti [https://twitter.com/lizrenzetti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] says she’d abandon a book 3/4 of the way through, even 95% of the way through, quite happily https://t.co/QPI9T6NvAw — CBCSundayEdition (@CBCSunday) February 5, 2018 [https://twitter.com/CBCSunday/status/960632878307528704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…

Makes me think of the Rule of Fifty

> This was Rand Paul while running for President. Last night, he and every Republican voted against waiting 3 more days before passing the tax bill. https://t.co/rYwu0ciC3O — Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 2, 2017 [https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/937051574286856192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > "We should…

A small and long-lasting book club

An incredible and a touching story of friends who began reading to each other 35 years ago and have kept it up. I wish I had thought or been invited to do the same, especially for poetry. This story has it all—thoughts on friendship, listening (and being listened to)…

A Writer Explains the Rule of Fifty

> Doris Lessing on how to read: https://t.co/tMwp318M80 pic.twitter.com/LAsoNC909t [https://t.co/LAsoNC909t] — Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) October 3, 2016 [https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/783001561232318464]…