It has been a long time since I posted something on TRD. I needed some time to think about where I want to take the blog. I still enjoy writing immensely and I’ll try to keep doing it. But for now, it is unclear in what way the blog here will play a role in […]
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What To Do When the Book You’re Reading Sucks We’ve all been in that situation where we read a book and every page seems like it passes by slower and slower. We forget what the last page was about. We go back and read it again. And get even more bored of the book. Time
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When you search for self-development books on Amazon, you’ll get over 60,000 results. The same search on goodreads yields 20,000 books. It might feel like self-development books (or self-improvement or self-help – you choose) are one of the major (book) trends of the 21st century: get more done in less time, love better, eat better, work
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Six Books I Got for Christmas Over the years, the nature of the gifts I got for Christmas has changed quite a lot. What used to be Lego Star Wars, are now books. And while my Lego Star Wars collection has been reduced to one lonely, damaged and dusty Yoda Star Fighter, the book collection
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How to Find the Motivation to Read It can be hard to pick up a book. There is so much else you could do with your time. And sometimes reading can be very boring and you find yourself lost in different thoughts every 5 minutes – having no idea what you just read. I know
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The Chopstick of Speed (2/2) Have you ever written a poem? I have not. At least not before last week. But that is the beauty of writing this blog – I can write about whatever I want and however I want. It was hella fun to write last week’s post (part 1) and an awesome
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The Chopstick of Speed One by one we blink. One by one we bleed. One by one we plead. One by one we think. We do it slow Go down like snow When we should go like rain And safe the pain Next. One by one we turn. One by one we moan. One by one we groan. One by one we learn.
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Both my friend and I brought a kindle to our much-needed summer vacation on a small Greek island. Usually, I prefer books, but I wanted to test the long-forgotten, dusty kindle that my parents gifted me some years ago. After reading the first three Harry Potter books again, I wondered: Should I continue reading on
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