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[Now Reading] Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

10 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments ervin-lemark $0.00

Published in 2011, this book by Ransom Riggs started an avalanche visible in a series of books featuring the adventures of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children. The books and the fame surrounding them even sprouted a movie in 2016, directed by Tim Bur...

Top Money Books

19 Jan 2021 1 minute read 7 comments Hipster Finance $0.04

I posted yesterday about my favorite finance/investing related podcasts, which I used to level up my money knowledge in 2020. In addition to using podcasts, I used books to increase my knowledge base about investing and personal finance.  I made it a...

Reading, A good way to learn and write:-

30 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Nadan $0.07

Although we post different things here and we should not neglect to discuss such crucial topics. Because the importance of reading books cannot be denied. As we are all here to be creative, especially in the writing field. And to write something crea...

The Weekly Summary - Learning Edition [Issue 38.1]

30 Dec 2020 1 minute read 13 comments tvlachak $0.60

Issue 38.1 / December 30, 2020 Learning "I never let schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain  Before spending a life savings for a college education, or worse by taking on massive debt, explore all the options. Exercise conscious choi...

Do Short Stories Deserve the Same Negative Label as Fast Food?

27 Dec 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Vitus │Righteous Legacy $0.22

What do books have in common with food? You can’t enjoy them during sleep by putting them under your pillow. Eating and reading have more in common than most think. Size, taste and value are the qualities both share. We consume a good story with as m...

Brave new world, by Aldous Huxley (book analysis)

16 Dec 2020 6 minute read 1 comment Azure95 $0.24

summary and reflections: The book begins with being in the egg hatchery, where all people are raised in containers, the staff can then easily manipulate the fetus to the class he or she should be in. The classes are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsi...

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28 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ThinkingRed $0.03

Our brains can recognize and convert numbers to letters pretty quickly automatically for the same reason that we can decipher messy handwriting. When we read, we process words and letters in a few steps; firstly, when reading a longer phrase, certain...

The Weekly Summary - Learning Edition [Issue 31.2]

13 Nov 2020 1 minute read 16 comments tvlachak $0.63

Issue 31.2 / November 13, 2020 Learning Time blocking is an active approach to productivity. This is an idea that hatched on Cal Newport’s blog back in 2013 which eventually became the main focal point of his book Deep Work. Out of convenience and mo...

Fantasy book recommendations?

29 Oct 2020 2 minute read 3 comments Fingolfin $1.11

Source I am writing this post to hopefully get a little conversation going. I've written before about hoping to find some like minded literary fans here and it has definitely not gone exactly as I had hoped. I suppose the only way to make it ha...

The Weekly Summary - Learning Edition [Issue 29.0]

25 Oct 2020 1 minute read 14 comments tvlachak $0.82

Issue 29.0 / October 25, 2020 Learning According to Harold Bloom, reading provides companionship and prepares us for change. Farnam Street has summarized how to read various forms of literature based on Bloom's book How to Read and Why. This is what...