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Reading Books and Buying Books are Two Different Hobbies
How to Buy Less and Read More in a Time of Endless Reading Options
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Bryce Allen
Want to Read About Stoicism? Here’s Where to Start with Every Stoic Philosopher
A Reading Guide of Recommended Translations and What Order to Read Them
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Bryce Allen
Books You Should Read for This Current Moment (Part 2)
The Authors Who Have the Most to Teach Us About Our History and Ourselves
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Bryce Allen
Books You Should Read for This Current Moment (Part 1)
The Authors Who Have the Most to Teach Us About Our History and Ourselves
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Bryce Allen
What's On My Mind (and My Reading List) — December 2024
Some Cozy Reads to Wind Down the Year With
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Bryce Allen
It’s Okay to Unplug. It Will Be There for You When You’re Ready.
A Brief Aside on Slowing Down
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Bryce Allen
You Don't Have to Finish Your Books, Not Really
When You Should Power Through a Book and When You Should Quit
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Bryce Allen
Don’t Have Time to Read? Try Reading in Small Sips
Easy tips to get you started as a regular reader and some books that might help.
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Bryce Allen
Reflecting on the Fire — Remembering James Baldwin on His 100th Birthday
“I am saying that a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do with what you find, or what…
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Bryce Allen
What’s on My Mind (and My Reading List) — April 2024
With the coming of Spring comes a new shift in my reading agenda.
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Bryce Allen
Why You Should Use Multiple Highlighters When You Read
Getting the Most Out of Your Digital Reading
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Bryce Allen
Don’t Buy Penguin Classics’s “Letters from a Stoic” by Seneca — Get This Instead!
Lucius Annaeus Seneca is the most prolific of the major Stoic philosophers.
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Bryce Allen
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