Reading
Slow reading, commonplace books and rereading.
5 entries-
evergreen Paid 4 min
My commonplace book system, in full
Eleven years, one notebook a year and an index box. Everything you need to start one this week.
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budding Members 3 min
Reading slowly, on purpose
From sixty books a year to fifteen, and why I remember all fifteen.
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evergreen 3 min
Reading aloud at the kitchen table
Twenty minutes after dinner, every evening, for nine years. The habit that started as a bedtime story.
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budding Members 3 min
Mending old books with thread and glue
Loose pages, torn pages and broken spines. How I mend the books I cannot replace.
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seedling 3 min
The seventy-two small seasons
My grandmother's old calendar of five-day seasons, and a local version for an English valley.