How to Read Big Books

Описание: How can you actually fit VERY big books into your very busy life? (Clearly I don't have a 100% straightforward answer, but I'm here to discuss things like introductions, annotations, and mindsets that will hopefully help you start your next large reading project!)

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Videos Mentioned:
-   • Where to Start with Czech Literature  
-   • We all have too many reading goals  

Books Mentioned:
-From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe by John Connelly (thank you to Princeton University Press for this copy! Better late than never with the review am I right)
-Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman)
-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (translated from Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
-Middlemarch by George Eliot
-The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek (translated from Czech by Cecil Parrott)
-Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
-The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer (translated from Ancient Greek by Robert Fagles, with introductions by Bernard Knox)


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00:00 How do you read big books as an adult?
04:23 Part I: What is a "big" book?
06:54 Check-in #1: Hope springs eternal
12:38 Part II: Is it the right time?
17:09 Part III: Familiarizing & Strategizing
30:07 Part IV: Structured vs. Unstructured Leisure Time
33:57 Check-in #2: Plans vs. Reality
41:25 Part V: The Briefest of Pep Talks
45:45 Check-in #3: So how was that book anyway
53:36 The End