<![CDATA[Folks who know I love reading tend to tell me how many #books they read last year.]]>Folks who know I love reading tend to tell me how many they read last year. But that’s not what I’m particularly interested in.

I want to know what you learned through those stories. How they shaped your perspective. What they taught you about our world. Perhaps what you discovered about yourself. ✨

To me, that’s what’s most beautiful about a good book. 📚

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The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow & David Graeber taught me that humans have been reinventing social orders and constantly transitioning between them for most of history and before that. The empires we learn about in history class were drops of rigid hierarchy in a sea of diverse models for society. The lesson is that we should have the courage to keep dreaming, keep reinventing ourselves, and never accept anything as set in stone.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://miscreants.party/users/potatoes_fall/statuses/116561914956668143https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://miscreants.party/users/potatoes_fall/statuses/116561914956668143Tue, 12 May 2026 13:47:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Folks who know I love reading tend to tell me how many #books they read last year. on Tue, 12 May 2026 13:36:44 GMT]]>@Sheril I find I often don't realise (or, at least, can't articulate) what I've learned from reading a book until much later. But it's always a good realisation, whenever it happens.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/amenonsen/statuses/116561871125566699https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/amenonsen/statuses/116561871125566699Tue, 12 May 2026 13:36:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Folks who know I love reading tend to tell me how many #books they read last year. on Tue, 12 May 2026 13:34:02 GMT]]>@Sheril One of the most important books I’ve read in the last few years is Breaking The Spell by Daniel Dennett. It makes the case that religion is ironically a logical outcome of human evolution, not some sort of incompatible-with-science purely vestigial mythology. It’s not true, of course, but it did serve an evolutionary purpose.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sjsmac/statuses/116561860510902048https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sjsmac/statuses/116561860510902048Tue, 12 May 2026 13:34:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Folks who know I love reading tend to tell me how many #books they read last year. on Tue, 12 May 2026 13:33:46 GMT]]>@Sheril Which one comes to mind when you think about that (re)shaped you? Just finished by Vincenzo Latronico and it held up quite the mirror.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115915956696054116/statuses/116561859474550988https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115915956696054116/statuses/116561859474550988Tue, 12 May 2026 13:33:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Folks who know I love reading tend to tell me how many #books they read last year. on Tue, 12 May 2026 13:31:22 GMT]]>@Sheril perhaps that I like escapism a lot? 🤔

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