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What people subconsciously are interested in is the expression of beauty, something that helps them through the humdrum day, something that shocks them out of themselves and something that makes them believe in the beauty and the glory of
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“Learning is stronger when it matters, when the abstract is made concrete and personal.”
― Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
― Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
“Evelyn Waugh was an illustrator. Poe was a deft portraitist. Hermann Hesse was a skilled painter, as was Strindberg. Emily and Charlotte Brontë drew, as did Goethe, Dostoevsky, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Ruskin, Dos Passos, Blake, Pushkin…”
― What We See When We Read
― What We See When We Read
“To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?”
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
“central challenge to improving the way we learn is finding a way to interrupt the process of forgetting.2”
― Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
― Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
“Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.”
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Literatura en Espanol / Books in Spanish
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Un grupo para discutir los libros escritos en espanol. Todos son bienvenidos!
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life's too short to read crappy books. this is why readers' advisory exists. feel free to join if you are looking for "a book like____" or "a book tha ...more
David Bowie's Top 100 Books
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If you're moved by music, join us in remembering a hero, a weirdo, an innovator, a genius, a legend. In 2013 David Bowie posted a list of his 100 favo ...more
Alexander’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alexander’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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453 books
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116 friends
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