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Many people want we had extra time within the day to take a seat with a ebook: to get caught in place for hours, fully immersed. However studying briefly chunks doesn’t must imply a shallow expertise: Some works even profit from these constraints. In the present day’s publication rounds up our writers’ strategies for what to learn whenever you don’t have a lot time—or a lot focus—to spare. I hope you take pleasure in nonetheless many moments of studying you’ll be able to steal away this weekend.
Books for the Busy Individual
Seven Books to Learn When You Have No Time to Learn
By Bekah Waalkes
These titles are price choosing up, even you probably have solely a second to spare.
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What to Learn When You Have Solely Half an Hour
By Celine Nguyen
A brief story has velocity and verve, and the most effective ones create a right away, instinctual bond between the reader and the characters. (From 2024)
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The Books We Learn Too Late—And That You Ought to Learn Now
By The Atlantic Tradition Desk
One of many nice, bittersweet pleasures of life is ending a title and interested by the way it might need affected you—if solely you’d discovered it sooner.
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PS
I lately requested readers to share a photograph of one thing that sparks their sense of awe on this planet. William P. shared this picture of “the rock” at Morro Bay, California, “with night gentle illuminating the ice vegetation masking the sand dunes.”
I’ll proceed to function your responses within the coming weeks.
— Isabel
