When I was a child, I was reading quite a lot compared to my peers. At 10, I devoured the entire Harry potter collection (at that time, only 5 of them were published), was a fan of Both Emile Zola and Frederic Beigbeder¹ in my teenage years, but then stopped reading much when I got into college. I didn’t saw it as something to worry on, because I was reading a lot of news publications, mostly about tech, and considered that it could palliate this loss.

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Like many people, I want to read more books that I do.

Many times while browsing the internet, I find myself exposed to books highly recommended by people I deeply admire, or people I just know being successful, but I always end up reading the first chapter and then forgetting to check them out, or catching myself daydreaming every two minutes while reading them. At the end of the day, the only kind of books where I can deeply immerse myself in are fiction books, like the new translation of The Lord of the Rings (that I highly recommend to French people, it’s just pure awesomeness), not books like Robert Caro’s biographies or Robert Greene’s Mastery.

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First season of Serial wasn’t very compelling for me because of my lack of interest in the subject. This year is about the Bowe Bergdal case : the only US private who was taken hostage in the Afgan war. The in depth coverage is astounding. I’m in the third episode now, and I’m completely into it. Give it a try. Serial Website - Listen in Overcast

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I couldn’t pass on sharing this, as I’m reading Stephen Hawking’s “A Briefer History of Time”.

Giving some perspective of the real scale of our solar system really helps understanding why things like getting on Mars or sending a probe to Pluto (which isn’t even represented in the video) are no small feat.

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