MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

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What Monks Know about Focus
It’s Never Been Easy to Battle Distraction. Reviewing Jamie Kreiner’s New Translation of John Cassian in ‘How to Focus’
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How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
A Recent Renovation Means It’s Time to Reorganize (and Purge)
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What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?
In Which I Interview Myself about George Eliot’s Beloved Classic
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Protesting the Decline of Reading
College Students Are Reading Less Than Ever, Same with Adolescents, Same with All of Us. What’s Going On?
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Why Build a Personal Library?
5 Reasons Besides Being ‘Smug and Middle Class’ to Collect Books for Yourself
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Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?
A Tale of Two Devices, Task Stacking, But Is It Really Reading? Plus: The Cigar Rollers’ Pastime
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The Books You Come Back To
What Are the Titles That Become Part of the Furniture of Your Mind and Alter Your Whole Attitude to Life?
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Actually, Try Reading Several Books at Once
Five Reasons to Be a Promiscuous, Polygamous Reader
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Cormac McCarthy’s Sideline: Freelance Copy Editor
The Pulitzer-Winning Novelist Enjoyed Helping Academics Clean up Their Work
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Treat or Trick? The Trap of Our Desires
Reviewing Ray Bradbury’s Halloween Classic, ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’
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My Favorite Books from 2024 and What’s Coming in 2025
Including Details about My Upcoming Book and My Classic Novel Goal
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Life Is Too Small Without Books
Literature Expands Our World: My Classic Novel and Memoir Goal for 2024
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