Cameron's Book Round-Up, Starting 2024 (Reread-a-Palooza, part 1)

Rereading is a fundamentally different act from the initial reading. By returning to a text with a memory of it, you can discover parts of it that you failed to see on initial — or second, or third — readings. I hesitate to suggest that you “decode” texts when you read them, or something to that effect, but it is my belief that the act of reading is a collaboration between the reader and text, and so the results will be fundamentally different if you are fundamentally different. You can never really “read the same book again” because much like Heraclitus’s river-crosser, you’re not the same person.

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Cameron's Book Round-Up: End of 2023 - Start of 2024

The past few weeks have been a whirlwind — I’ve started a new semester and I’m putting the button on an old job. That hasn’t left a ton of time for reading, but I’ve still managed to finish a few. I’ve bookmarked the next month or so as a “re-read-a-palooza” for myself, revisiting older books that I may need to give more attention to. Given that my commute has increased a bit, this is leading to a fairly different rhythm for a bit.

Edgar's Book Round-Up, September 2023

In the immortal words of a Tweet that lives rent-free in my brain, “Ah, September. The first of the final four months. The big boys,” et cetera.

Cameron's Book Round-Up: August 2023

I hate summer. I hate summer. I hate summer. I spent a lot of my time this month lying flat on my back in the one room with air conditioning in our apartment and listening to audio books or reading a massive tome that I have (thus far) failed to finish — wait until next month, probably.

Edgar's Book Round-Up, April 2023

Maybe someday I’ll try to put my feelings in to words, but for right now, I will stick to telling on myself and move on.