In the preceding two sections of this Ramp Up Your Reading essay, More and Faster and Do It Better, we’ve seen how important priorities are to the reading life. Firstly in the matter of making reading itself a priority, and then when looking at your reading priorities themselves, as a way to focus what time [...]
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Ramp Up Your Reading: Do It Better by Bill Ward
As discussed in the first part of this essay, Ramp Up Your Reading: More and Faster, anyone who wants to take seriously the goal of getting more reading done needs to examine their priorities, track their reading, and employ whatever time-saving tricks they can think of to squeeze in some more book time between all [...]
Ramp Up Your Reading: More and Faster by Bill Ward
Soon the New Year will be upon us, a chance for new beginnings and, perhaps more often than not, failed resolutions. But this year forget the promise to jazzercise yourself into a size three, find a job working with parakeets-in-need, or get noticed for all the wrong reasons on reality television, and think instead of [...]
The 1st Occasional Grasping for the Wind Invitational
I am going to be away for the next week, cruising the Caribbean with my family. Instead of letting this blog languish for an entire week, I asked a few bloggers and authors to contribute a guest post.
Each of the following links will go live once the post is live. Posts begin tomorrow and run [...]
Bill Ward on the How and Why of Writing Book Reviews
I’ve met, read, and am working with Ward, and he is knowledgeable and intelligent. I highly recommend that ever reviewer read this essay. It is helpful and cogent. For me, it was also timely, as I have felt my reviews have lacked the quality I expect from myself.
“A critical essay assumes familiarity with the work [...]
