A Year in Reading: Taylor Byas
by Taylor Byas
Dec 06, 2023
4 minutes
To learn how to love books again after my Ph.D., I started a reading notebook. For every book I read, I created a new entry that contained: 1) a word bank of words that I wouldn’t reach for on my own or that I didn’t recognize, 2) my “Notes & Quotes, Snippets & Ideas” section where I collected meaningful quotes, questions, and 3) any poem snippets/ideas that occurred during my reading. At the end of each book, I challenged myself to write a poem draft from everything I’d collected.
I didn’t read much this year, but I realized that I’d never been this engaged or inspired in my reading before. Here are small excerpts from my reading notebook, excerpts that include quotes from the
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