This scenario probably sounds familiar: You’ve got a book club meeting coming up. Or maybe the book you checked out from the library needs to be returned soon. Or perhaps a friend ask you to read that biography and report back by Friday. Then comes the harsh truth: you are looking down at a pile […]

Most reading goals don’t work because they don’t take into account physics of time. Fifty books this year sounds like a great goal, until you remember that one book is an eight-hundred page giant, while anothers just a slim pamphlet. Your brain doesn’t balance the math for you. It needs a ledger. Here’s a calculator […]

The summer begins well: a pile of unread books and great intentions. By late July, however, you’re scrambling through the last few days before school starts again. Where did all the time go? It’s not usually about time. It’s about measuring the pace against the days left on the calendar because most readers assume each […]

Maybe you’ve been three chapters behind on a book club pick with just two weeks to go. Maybe you nobly purchased the book, maybe even highlighted the first paragraph, only to have life get in the way. It throws in meetings or laundry, or worse yet, reminds you that you still haven’t made dinner. On […]