For generations, Lonely Planet defined the difference between travel and tourism. What is that difference? Robert D. Kaplan once said, “The difference between travel and tourism is reading.” Books teach you that it’s possible to journey inward—and that this need not be an empty platitude. (via Cătălin Tolontan)
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There are no shortcuts — reading takes time. “I spend an inordinate amount of time reading,” Warren Buffett told students at the University of Nebraska in 1994. “I probably read at least six hours a day. Maybe more.” That’s a staggering commitment from anyone — let alone the leader of a global business empire.
Buffett keeps his schedule deliberately lean with no meetings to clutter his day. This places reading and reflection at the heart of Buffett’s professional life.
There are authors who write – “Hmm, I didn’t like this book/movie/TV Series. Still, I will comment on it, so that you could consider avoiding it”.
Currently, I’m not a big fan of the methdod.
I prefer to focus on gems.
The main reason? I don’t necessarily get vocabulary, a certain state, or some emotions from a book. I most often look to gain some good insight from a book, and this generally doesn’t require the book to be good.
Same thing for a movie.
Thus, some books I like and some movies I like are not necessarily the same as others.
It might be a good movie that I don’t like, or it might be a poorly written book that I love.
I apply the same logic to others – if I didn’t like a book/movie, I think there could still be plenty of people who might like it.
On the other hand, I don’t like all the movies I see/books I read, so it’s actually easier to focus only on the ones I enjoy.
You can find a list of the books I’ve read on my Goodreads profile »
You can consider sorting the list by the ratings so that you’ll see the top-rated books at the top.
Just as it is almost proverbial that, if you want any business done for you, you should ask a busy man to do it, and not a man of leisure, so it is the laborious scholar, who is working hard at languages, who picks up, nay, actually reads and studies more of other subjects than the rest of his fellows at school or college.
Reverend W. J. Kennedy, who was the Inspector of Schools for Lancashire and the Isle of Man in Britain, 1856
Hello, world!
This will be a blog where I, Olivian Breda, will put my thoughts on the best books I read.
I’ll try to post quality content, and in-depth analysis, but, as any busy man could tell you, there’s never enough time for that.
Hope you’ll enjoy reading the blog as much as I’ll enjoy writing on it.
Long live the new blog!