Tag: Books
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8 Things Only Readers Understand
There are some things that only readers understand: 1. You can know a word, how it’s spelled, and what it means, and still have no idea how to pronounce it. This is called “reader’s vocabulary” or “Calliope syndrome”. This happens to me ALL the time – one specific word was “superfluous” which I thought was pronounced…
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Learning How To Be Here
In my latest reading roundup, I mentioned that I had recently read How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living by Rob Bell. I picked this one up at Ashley Brooks’s suggestion and really enjoyed it. I read this book while we were still in transition while building the house, a…
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What I Read the Rest of 2016
My reading updates have been rather sporadic this year as I took the summer off from blogging… and then most of the fall and winter, too. The combination of having no internet connection + building a house + incubating a baby turned out to be too much to handle and still make space for writing…