On rereading
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Translations are a conversation between two writers and a reader.
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Things I got wrong about keeping a commonplace book
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There is a version of this that is much more complicated. This is not that version. Looking back, the quiet approach was the right call.
A slower way to think about libraries
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Here is what altered, and what stayed exactly the same. The best advice I got was simply to slow down.
The case for quiet diaries
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I wrote most of this on a quiet Monday morning. Short books are not lesser books; frequently they are the opposite.
What two years of reading slowly taught me
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I read it once fast and once gradually, and they were different books. A pencil helps, but it is not the point.
Notes in the margins
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You can get remarkably far with a notebook and some patience.