Adventures in Reading: A Need Wish Possibility for Speed

I once told a friend that if I were ever given three wishes by a magical being, I would wish to be able to read faster.

A simple request for which I envisioned no unforeseen, earth-shattering consequences, and that I believed would genuinely make my life better.

Last November (2021), I decided to grant my own wish by signing up for a speed-reading course.

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The Purpose of Writing

Is art—in particular, writing—meant to be representative or aspirational?

On Twitter, where I admittedly spend more time than is probably recommended, the issue of representative vs. aspirational writing comes up often, if not necessarily using these exact terms.

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The Many Ways of Reading a Book

I recently learned that some readers start a new book by first reading the end.

Book last page

To clarify, I’d always heard that some people do this.

However, it wasn’t until I read the comments on a recent Twitter post about content/trigger warnings vs. spoilers in books and whether they represent the same thing that I came to realize just how many people do this, and also some of the reasons why.

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