{"id":9533,"date":"2023-03-19T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9533"},"modified":"2023-03-19T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:37:55","slug":"reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9533","title":{"rendered":"READING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 19.2pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a;\">One constant for me is a red pencil for highlighting and a black pen for marginalia. Pencils are only used if I think the pen will bleed through the paper.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19.2pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a;\">Another constant is that I tend to read about five books at the same time. Different types of books being read at the same time carries these benefits: they start forming a conversation among themselves, if you are slogging through a tome like one of Charles Taylor&#8217;s big books you can take a break and read something lighter, and it is motivating to finish a bunch of books about the same time.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19.2pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a;\">For many years, I have kept a log of what books I&#8217;ve read, or in some cases, reread. It serves as a good accountability to hit my goal of about 50-60 serious read books each year and it allows me to evaluate how balanced my reading is across different disciplines.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; line-height: 19.2pt; background: white;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a;\">Not a constant, but close to one, is that I usually take a book with me to appointments. I don&#8217;t get perturbed when someone is late!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One constant for me is a red pencil for highlighting and a black pen for marginalia. Pencils are only used if I think the pen will bleed through the paper. Another constant is that I tend to read about five books at the same time. Different types of books being read at the same time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9534,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions\/9534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}