Books & Reading
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What you are reading and why it is good.
About this space
What you are reading and why it is worth someone else's time. Recommendations with reasons attached, a rolling reading group, translations compared side by side, and the book you abandoned at page sixty. Disagreement about a book is welcome; disagreement about a person is not.
Topics
- Recommendations
- Reading group
- Translation
- Currently reading
Recent discussions
- Books about debt and money that read like history rather than a textbook, with my reasonsRecommendations · Oct 26, 2026 · 10 replies
- Lombard Street and The Way We Live Now, read side by side by a retired bankerRecommendations · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 replies
- Which books on the history of money actually work for sixteen-year-olds?Question · Recommendations · Oct 25, 2026 · 7 replies
- Pairing a novel with a nonfiction economics book each month: what happened in our book clubReading group · Oct 25, 2026 · 7 replies
- Books about how films get made that are really about money and nerveRecommendations · Oct 24, 2026 · 5 replies
- Do you read the novel before or after watching the adaptation, and why?Question · Reading group · Oct 24, 2026 · 6 replies
- Recommend me something difficult that is worth itQuestion · Recommendations · Oct 3, 2026 · 5 replies
- Two translations of the same book are two different booksTranslation · Sep 24, 2026 · 7 replies
- Reading group: six weeks, one long novel, what we noticedReading group · Sep 12, 2026 · 7 replies
- Translation: the advice I had to unlearnRecommendations · Sep 6, 2026 · 6 replies
- Translation: a small thing I am quietly pleased withCurrently reading · Aug 26, 2026 · 9 replies
- Translation: am I solving the wrong problem here?Question · Translation · Aug 23, 2026 · 6 replies
- Translation: an unpopular opinion, argued properlyCurrently reading · Aug 21, 2026 · 3 replies
- Translation: where would you tell a beginner to start?Question · Reading group · Aug 21, 2026 · 5 replies
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