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1. ALL MY PATIENTS KICK AND BITE HOW TO
2. ALL MY PATIENTS KICK AND BITE FREE
3. ALL MY PATIENTS KICK AND BITE CRACK

There are writers like Dan Brown - “The Da Vinci Code” - and Matthew Reilly - “Ice Station” - who seem incapable of writing more than a thousand words in one go without needing to break it into a new chapter. Clarke” collect most of each author’s work in one affordable - if hard to carry - book.Įven some thrillers can work. “The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway” and “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. For example, Ernest Hemingway wrote about 60 while Arthur C. While there aren’t many modern writers who do more than dabble with the form, lots of the greats of the last century wrote a ridiculous number. If your tastes skew more toward fiction, consider short stories. Not only will you be reading more, but your trip will be even better thanks to all the preparation. Or, if you already have a vacation planned, grab a good guidebook for your destination and work your way through it.

I’m a big fan of Lonely Planet’s trip guides like “Epic Drives of the World,” “Epic Hikes of the World” and “Epic Bike Rides of the World.” Each one is packed with awesome adventure ideas - a perfect distraction on your morning commute. Good travel guides are also perfect bite-sized books. Otherwise, I can wholeheartedly recommend Tim Kreider’s two collections, “We Learn Nothing” and “I Wrote This Book Because I Love You ” “Consider the Lobster and Other Essays” by David Foster Wallace “How Did You Get This Number” by Sloane Crosley “Arguably” by Christopher Hitchens and “A Slip of the Keyboard” by Terry Pratchett (and dozens more if you reach out to me on Twitter!) If you already have a favorite columnist, see if they’ve published a collection - many prolific ones do. While there are often one or two essays in a collection that take an hour or so to read, you can save it for when you’ve got a little more time to kill and just chip away at the shorter ones when you’re at the bus stop.

Essays tend to be short and totally independent of each other - at most they’re linked by a common theme. I’ve found essay collections, travel guides and short stories to be the best for me.Ĭollections of essays or, even better, columns are a great place to start. If I just had two minutes, I might only get through three or four questions, but because each one was a complete answer, it didn’t feel like I was constantly being pulled away from some important bit of action.įor the first time in a long time, reading a book on my phone was just as convenient - and far more interesting - than social media.Ĭertain genres of books, on the other hand, work really well. Over my first few days of reading “Tribe of Mentors,” I found that instead of opening Twitter, Instagram or Facebook when I had time to waste, I opened the Kindle app on my iPhone instead and read an interview. Each interview is only a few pages long so they take minutes to read. The hook is that he asks every interviewee the same set of ten questions. Ferriss interviews over 130 of the “world’s top performers,” from people like Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, to Strauss Zelnick, chief executive of video game publisher Take-Two Interactive. One great example of a bite-sized book is Tim Ferriss’ “Tribe of Mentors.” In the book, Mr.

That’s why bite-sized books are a great way to kick-start your reading. Not all books, however, are big commitments. Instagram is addictive for a reason: it’s there, it’s easy and it hits your dopamine receptors harder than a Dan Brown novel. You’re tired, you only have a few moments and the book probably isn’t as good as everyone says anyway.

ALL MY PATIENTS KICK AND BITE CRACK

It’s much harder to motivate yourself to crack open a weighty tome crammed with characters and subplots than to just scroll through Twitter’s ephemera. I suspect a big part of the problem is that books feel like a huge commitment. Of the participants, only 16% - roughly 700,000 of them - finished their challenge. In last year’s Goodreads Reading Challenge, more than 4.2 million people pledged to read a combined 260 million books - that’s an average of 61 books per person. “Reading more” is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions - and a general be-a-better-human pledge but, like most resolutions, most people fail.

ALL MY PATIENTS KICK AND BITE FREE

Here’s the catch though: What got me started are what I call “bite-sized books”: books made up of loads of small chunks that are easy to dip in and out of, whether you have two minutes free standing in line or an hour to kill on a short-haul flight. It’s surprisingly simple: Instead of trawling through Twitter or hitting up Instagram whenever I’ve had a few minutes to spare waiting for a train, I’ve been opening the Kindle app and sticking my nose in a book.

ALL MY PATIENTS KICK AND BITE HOW TO

Everyone wants to read more, and over the last few months I’ve finally figured out how to fit more reading into a busy schedule.