{"id":37051,"date":"2024-02-05T17:20:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T01:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/?p=37051"},"modified":"2024-02-05T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T01:21:26","slug":"tbr-adds-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/tbr-adds-january\/","title":{"rendered":"TBR Adds – January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If there’s anything I love more than reading itself, it’s making lists of books to read. No, seriously, I sometimes think I like making the lists more than the actual reading. It’s a fault. Here are some I added in January. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where do I find new books to add to my TBR, you may ask. Well, I troll BookRiot, Literary Hub, and Modern Mrs Darcy for a lists of new-release fiction and general non-fiction, as well as themed lists. I also get lots of older book recommendations from the Literary Life podcast and Discord, and from various other posts. Basically, my eyes and ears are always open and I add anything and everything that sounds interesting to me. Most of these books I doubt I’ll ever get around to reading. But keeping an expansive to-read list both pleases me in and of itself and allows me to choose my next reads with some amount of whim from a pre-curated selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First a special mention, as this is the only book I’ve become aware of in the past few days that I ordered immediately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks to this post<\/a> from Alan Jacobs, which he posted in response to the recent David Brooks article about whether art makes us better people.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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If there’s anything I love more than reading itself, it’s making lists of books to read. No, seriously, I sometimes think I like making the lists more than the actual reading. It’s a fault. Here are some I added in January. Where do I find new books to add to my TBR, you may ask. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":920,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/best-of-2007-or-yay-more-lists\/","url_meta":{"origin":37051,"position":0},"title":"Best of 2007; or, Yay More Lists!","author":"Jandy","date":"January 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it's that time of year. 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Anyway, because I enjoyed having such a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Chrono Project"","block_context":{"text":"Chrono Project","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/chrono-project\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Great-Train-Robbery.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Great-Train-Robbery.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Great-Train-Robbery.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Great-Train-Robbery.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Great-Train-Robbery.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":835,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/heavy-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":37051,"position":4},"title":"Heavy Reading","author":"Jandy","date":"December 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"So I just checked out the reading list for my Victorian Novel class in the Spring. 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