Last night, I had the pleasure of conversing with fellow bibliophile Uday Kiran on Mentza about my love for reading, this 'sanity project' and more. Everything that popped up during those 27 minutes is linked out in this post for easy access, in chronological order.

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Mon 07 Feb, 19:00 IST with Uday Kiran

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1. Statutory Earworm Alert: This tune might get stuck in your head for days. Thank / blame Uday :P

2. Listen to Ila Reddy's offbeat travel tales on #1MinuteStories with Uday. Also subscribe below to receive her posts in your inbox.

#10. Slow Travel in an Idyllic Village in Chamba

Slow travel in the mountains, a Himachali delicacy, and some silver linings.

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3. Find all details of Amit Varma's course --> 'The Art of Clear Writing'. To know more about Amit, listen to him guesting on his own show...

4. Read more about the 'gap year' --> 'The Bibliophile's Guide to 42' and...

Long Strange Trip

Sabbatical (noun) - also known as gap year; a prolonged hiatus in the career of an individual taken in order to fulfill some dream, e.g. writing a book or travelling extensively.

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5. Read the article which introduced me to 'bibliotherapy' in March 2020...

Can Reading Make You Happier?

After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.

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6. Check out the work of bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud on Instagram, Twitter + The School of Life

7. Scroll through my reader's journey in nine montages, nine quotes...

One Billion Seconds... plus a few million more...

Bibliotherapy (noun) - ‘The use of books to aid people in solving the issues that they may be facing at a particular time.’ First coined during the trying times of World War I.

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8. Download your copy of the zine containing my top 42 recommendations and more...

9. Swipe sideways below to know more about...

10. Try out Guided Reading Meditation #1 and...

1 Short Story. 1 Poem. 1 Essay: Guided Reading Meditation #2

"What you’ve got to do from this night forward is stuff your head with more different things from various fields... Before you go to bed every night, read one short story, one poem, one essay - for the next thousand nights... At the end, Jesus God, you’ll be full of stuff, won’t you?" ~ Ray Bradbury (An Evening in 2001)

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11. If you're still on Clubhouse, say hi! (No fruity emoji / 'shoot your shot' rooms hosted, though :P)

12. Feast on Pico Iyer's...

Why We Travel

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently …

picoiyerjourneys.com

13. Read why Samir and Ritesh built stck.me (formerly Scrollstack)...

Why we built ScrollStack

Samir Patil, Ritesh Mehta

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14. Read about the next phase of this project - the search for its first 10,000 Readers of 42...

Letter to the Reader #2: The Origin Story, Revisited (+ plans for 2022)

Dear Reader,

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15. Expand your mind courtesy Douglas Noel Adam's last public talk before his untimely death in 2001...

16. Swipe sideways for glimpses of DNA's favourite book written by him...

17. Know more about anti-libraries and...

The value of owning more books than you can read

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love my tsundoku.

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18. Swipe sideways for a few nudges to pick up my End-of-2020 read...

19. Scroll through the Cricket Collection on Instagram, featuring nostalgic memorabilia such as 'Britannia Khao, World Cup Jao' booklets and tons more.

20. Explore the wholesome side of the internet, e.g.

For more 'good faith interactions', scroll through the Reddit weblogs from Week 1 and Week 2.

21. Sign up to receive one goodread every day on Telegram, courtesy Deepak 'Chuck' Gopalakrishnan and myself.

Frood For Thought: Your daily read

A channel where your hoopy admins, Chuck & Nitin, give you one curated article a day to help build a reading habit (or maintain the one you already have!) Want to invite someone? t.me/FroodForThought by @chuckofalltrades / @projectbibliotherapy

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22. Look forward to Guided Reading Meditations and more reading circles on Mentza :)

Cheers and happy reading! ~ Nitin