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Reading books is the antidote to brainrot. Reading books is the antidote to brainrot. Reading books is the antidote to brainrot. Reading books is the antidote to brainrot. Reading books is the antidote to brainrot. Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.

@Awwwchallllll Some books just leave a lasting impression.

People who read a lot of books how do you actually retain what you read? I try reading but after 2–3 books, I forget most of it… even powerful lines fade. Like, how do you keep those insights with you and actually apply them later?

@VascoDaGappah There also is a book bar in Seattle, WA: seattlerefined.com/lifestyle/book…

One day, I am going to open a Book Bar. People will come to share their problems, and I will comfort them with a drink and a book that speaks to their problem. My Book Bar will be styled like Coben and Dobernigg in Hamburg, the most stylish bookshop I've ever done an event in!

Happy Monday readers and writers! When you get a chance, check out my author interview with Heather Barksdale: heatherlbarksdale.com/authorintervie…

"There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life..." - Orwell George Orwell, a shelfie. 📚📚📚📖

I'm seeing more people say that AI won't replace writers, but it will replace editors. Let's set the record straight. AI is a bad editor. VERY bad. It is not accurate, dependable, balanced, or unbiased. Are there bad human editors? Of course. Is there a good AI editor? Not unless you're writing for AI to enjoy your work (and also want AI companies to steal and train on your intellectual property.) It's not worth the money you'll save. It will make your work boring and generic. It will not preserve your voice. It rarely even gets grammar and basic style rules right (source: I worked at an AI company at one time). It will suggest "edits" that are actually just exact copies of your fellow authors' work. Do not resolve your frustration with the editing industry by relying on an extremely flawed tool created by companies that have zero concern for copyright, intellectual property, and creativity. Writers will not move forward by disrespecting and disregarding the work of good editors.

#WritingCommmunity Reallll!!! 🤣🤣

People have no idea how much work goes into writing a book. Months, sometimes years, of thinking, rewriting, doubting, & starting over. If a book moved you, show it. Rate it. Write a review. Share it. Recommend it. And if you can, buy it.

“Read everything... but remember: a book is only a book. You must learn to think for yourself.” — Maxim Gorky

I’m sorry but the future belongs to those who read widely, who are able to write without the assistance of a machine, who haven’t allowed endless slop to kill their curiosity and cognitive abilities. Excess tech is going to melt many brains. Yours doesn’t need to be one of them.

Interesting facts about books: Roosevelt was known for his prodigious reading an average of one book a day. Four books bound in human skin can be found in the Harvard University library. Iceland is the world leader in book reading per capita. In Brazilian prisons, reading books can reduce a sentence by four days. The most frequently stolen book in the world is the Bible. In Victor Hugo's Villain, there is a sentence that contains an impressive 823 words. Virginia Woolf wrote all her works while standing, not sitting. Leo Tolstoy's wife copied the manuscript of War and Peace seven times. Over 20,000 books have been written about chess, highlighting its depth and complexity. The Mahabharata is the only epic in the world that contains over 1200 characters. Words like "rush" and "addiction" were created by the great Shakespeare. The longest novel ever written is Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, which clocks in at over 1.2 million words. The first printed book in history was Gutenberg's Bible, published in 1455. JK Rowling became the first billionaire author thanks to the worldwide success of the Harry Potter series. Charles Dickens was paid per word, which explains why many of his works are so long.

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When I'm writing, I make a spreadsheet in Excel to keep track of my characters. I copy and paste their appearance and their age at each point in the narrative. This way, I’m less likely to give someone blue eyes in Chapter 5 and brown in Chapter 15.

In the 19th century, it was common for people to read every book in their family's library. Abraham Lincoln educated himself entirely through reading. He would walk miles to borrow a book and read it by firelight. No teachers. No curriculum. Just books and determination. In fields that require solving problems, like mathematics and science, you have to actually practice. But in the humanities, extensive reading is almost all you need. If you read enough, you understand history and literature and philosophy and politics. The knowledge comes through the reading.

"Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing." —Benjamin Franklin

If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the education job is already done. That's my honest assessment after working in education for over thirty years. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology. Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.

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