A Year in Reading: Rachel Khong

For better and worse, books are how I learn things. Kissing, for instance. Though I wouldn’t get the opportunity to implement this knowledge for another solid decade (or, uh, more) I referred, with hope, to the Junior Girl Scout handbook. Year after year, I read to understand, knowing that it’s a futile exercise—limitless in both the exhausting and reassuring ways. Exhaustingly, reassuringly, there is always more to know. 2018 was another Year in Reading to know more—embarrassingly literally at times. The books I read fell into a few main categories:

Literal self-help! In 2018 I did things. I read by , the founder of Patagonia, about letting your employees go surfing (the self-help realm is all about the subtitles, and Chouinard’s is: ). A book that legit changed my life was one I found on a shelf in an Airbnb: ‘s , about Getting Things Done®! (Subtitle.) I thought I was sort of spending too much time on my phone so I read a book called and it more or less worked. In June we adopted a kitten from the SPCA. I read () by , in which he recommends blinking slowly at your cat to express love. I read a book called about taking cats on hikesIndeed, I remain as cool as I was at age 9.