During my last two posts, I placed some subtle hints that I’ve been through a very stressful period of my life because of an exam – now that it passed, I feel somehow lost, without an immediate goal in sight 🙂 Although I had to force myself to stop reading anything else than the…… Continue reading Book Review: Natural Pregnancy and Parenting
Category: Out-of-the-box thinking
Reading vs. experience: which one is better?
Many of my skills came from reading, so why does this activity have such a bad reputation as not being “the right way” to learn a skill? A book is condensed experience – basically a conventional name we give to our past mistakes. Any skill is learnt by daily practicing it – and as long…… Continue reading Reading vs. experience: which one is better?
Great places to read
A reader reads. Yet depending on the book I am reading and the mood I am in, I don’t just read. The location and the content of the book should harmonize like yin and yang. A difficult (emotional) book requires unbroken silence; a light book or a rigid course for the next exam demands some…… Continue reading Great places to read
How to choose an ebook reader
Paper books have their irreplaceable charm, but there is going to come a time when you’ll wish your books didn’t occupy so much of your breathing space – usually during moving or while cleaning the dust from a growing personal library. Just like with any gadget, spend some time thinking what features you really need…… Continue reading How to choose an ebook reader