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Bookstores

I did not form the habit of reading until after I started to work. Having just committed my first serious job-related mistake and dreaded by the subsequent criticism and self-doubt, I decided to embrace reading as a distraction. I picked from the shelf Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky–a book I purchased in my freshmanContinue reading “Bookstores”

My 2019 Booklist

2019 was the first whole year throughout which I have been systematically reading. Having set the somewhat optimistic goal (given I’m a slow reader) of reading 25 books at the beginning of the year, I finished 19 of them, the shortest of which took a week and the longest over four months. I wanted toContinue reading “My 2019 Booklist”