Reflections on reading: January 25, 2024

Our RSS feeder recently featured several posts that tackle small (but legitimate) problems that readers might face ...

• The worst dead-end questions to ask in book club: I'd venture to say that while a minority of readers are actively in book clubs, many of us have at least tried them; and if they didn't "stick," the entries on Vivienne Woodward's list might have been partly to blame (Book Riot).

• How to read faster and retain more: Jason Hamilton used to consider himself a slow reader, and he wished he could go faster while also retaining more; he shares the techniques he successfully implemented to achieve that goal (Kindlepreneur).

• Has TikTok ruined reading?: The tendency of one generation to decide that the younger ones are messing things up is a tale as old as time; the current iteration that Leah Rachel von Essen tackles is the debate around BookTok (Book Riot).