It doesn’t feel like it is enough to simply list and read the books. I feel like I also have to, in some way, interact with them. And for me that’s about writing about them. In fact, one of the things I miss about college is being forced to engage with the things I’m reading through writing. And that is one of the things I get out of maintaining a blog. I tend to engage with material at (a little) deeper level than normally.

I really worry about losing those old critical thinking facilities. This is one way to keep them up.