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Jane (Avid reader) is 80% done with Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live
Focus on the list of completed items rather than the uncompleted since the incomplete will always grow. But so will the completed list and that is something to be proud of.
Feb 02, 2026 01:20PM Add a comment
Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live

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Jane (Avid reader) is 80% done with Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live
One day we are going to die, until then we have all the time in the world.
Feb 02, 2026 01:18PM Add a comment
Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live

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Jane (Avid reader) is 38% done with Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
“No character can come to life without a name. But from a wife, which is a job description, it can all be stolen”. Orwell mentions his wife 37 times in “Homage to Catalonia” but never once by name
Jan 27, 2026 01:21PM Add a comment
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

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Jane (Avid reader) is 33% done with Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
Chapter 6

Tech algorithms serve you up content to keep you looking. They want you on the platform for as long as possible
Jan 16, 2026 11:26AM Add a comment
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

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Jane (Avid reader) is 33% done with Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
Chapter 5: “James Williams the former Google strategist that I Met addressed an audience of hundreds of leading tech designers and asked them a simple question ‘How many Of you want to live in the world you are designing?’ There was silence in the room. People looked around them. Nobody put up their hand “
Jan 16, 2026 11:20AM Add a comment
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

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Jane (Avid reader) is 31% done with The Trees
“Unknown male is a name” the old woman said “in a way it’s more of a name than any of the others. A little more than life was taken from them”.
Jan 12, 2026 05:54PM Add a comment
The Trees

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Jane (Avid reader) is 31% done with The Trees
“He’s talking about Money. It’s not a city. It’s a shithole where they put some buildings. “
Jan 12, 2026 01:09PM Add a comment
The Trees

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Jane (Avid reader) is 17% done with The Trees
“Well it’s chock-full of know-nothing peckerwoods stick in the prewar nineteenth century and living proof that inbreeding does not lead to extinction” Jim said “no offense, chief”
Jan 12, 2026 12:40PM Add a comment
The Trees

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Jane (Avid reader) is 17% done with History's Strangest Deaths: A Half-Arsed History Book
If there is joy in death this is it.

Until it isn’t

By turns induces hilarity and squeamishness
Nov 12, 2025 02:00PM Add a comment
History's Strangest Deaths: A Half-Arsed History Book

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Jane (Avid reader) is 30% done with All the Way to the River
Self indulgent clap trap.

Ick.

Don’t do it to yourself
Oct 24, 2025 08:35PM Add a comment
All the Way to the River

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