Last year was one of my slowest reading years for quite a while. I’m not surprised, given the frenetic pace, but it’s something I’m fixing this year, not least because my brain is threatening to melt and I really just need the recharge time. So, this school holidays, I decided to do a mini challenge […]
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See yesterday’s post for Reasons 1 through 3. REASON FOUR: SOCIAL/POWER STRUCTURES In all of this, there may be some interesting things going on with our background psychology. Some monkey scientists (as in scientists who study monkeys, not, you know, unusually inquiring and intellectual monkeys) have suggested that when monkeys groom each other, it’s not
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One of my friends got tangled in an argument on Twitter last week about why fiction even matters in the first place. Conveniently, I actually addressed that in one of my recent non-fiction books, so I thought I’d repost here tagged accordingly. This is in two parts – part two will post tomorrow. Storytelling
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