The Best Strategy for Late-December Reading
At this time of the year, I try to resist the pressure to be productive.
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When the end of the year comes around, I know that I can count on taking multiple long, cross-country plane rides broken up by days’ worth of loafing on my parents’ or my in-laws’ couches. the time from Christmas to New Year’s Day, is the perfect moment for aimless reading. “It is a time against ambition and against striving,” Fitzgerald writes. Lounge about, flip through a book, and let a story wrap
