A reading year, counted honestly
Forty-one started, nineteen finished, four I will reread forever. The arithmetic of a reading life, with the abandoned ones named.
Mira Halvorsen
Founded Connect in 2021 after a decade designing systems nobody was supposed to notice. Writes about craft, attention and the quiet cost of maintenance.
More in Reading
Three more pieces on the same thread.
Rereading is not nostalgia
I reread four books most years. Each time the book is the same and the reading is not, which is the entire argument for doing it.
In defence of the book you did not finish
I abandon more books than I complete and I have stopped apologising for it. The unfinished ones are doing more work than the finished ones.
The library that fits in one shelf
A constraint I set four years ago and have not broken: one shelf, forty books. Everything else is borrowed, lent or let go.