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By: Top 10 Blog Posts of 2008 « Beyond the Rhetoric

Top 10 Blog Posts of 2008 « Beyond the Rhetoric — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:15:58 +0000

[...] may be interested to hear what everyone else was reading on Beyond the Rhetoric in 2008. After all, you are what you read and I certainly appreciate that you choose to read my random musings, whether they be about [...]

By: What I’ve Read, What I’m Reading || Beyond the Rhetoric ||

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:00:23 +0000

[...] couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog post explaining that you are what you read. The written word has tremendous influence on our personalities and our behaviors, but your [...]

By: You Are What You Read :: So What Am I? » Derek Semmler dot com

You Are What You Read :: So What Am I? » Derek Semmler dot com — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:43:37 +0000

[...] Last week, freelance writing extraordinaire Michael Kwan discussed the belief that much like the saying that you are what you eat, you are what you read. [...]

By: Fiction: More Than Just a Diversion || Beyond the Rhetoric ||

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:46:46 +0000

[...] said before that you are what you read, but this does not mean that you should avoid “indulging” in fiction. Reading something [...]

By: Mike Goad

Mike Goad — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:08:13 +0000

Reading currently:

Audacity of Hope, Google AdSense for Dummies, and …

too many blog feeds, to which I’ve just added your blog

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:02:39 +0000

About the closest I come to pleasure reading any more is the blogs in my RSS reader. I wish I had time to read some good works of fiction on occassion, but that time never seems to materialize.

While I don’t disagree with what you have written here, I wonder though if it is what we read that influences who we are or if it is the who we are that is the determining factor in what we read….

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:53:59 +0000

I certainly still read for pleasure, although most of that reading is now done online via my RSS reader.

Two books just arrived from Amazon that are not work related. The biggest challenge with reading hard-copy books is finding the time away from everything else to do it.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:24:13 +0000

I read in the bathroom…

Oh… you said What… not Where… LOL

By: dcr

dcr — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:31:57 +0000

I have this feeling of deja vu…

These days, what I read is mostly online. And, it’s a variety of sources, from Twitter tweets to articles on websites of magazines to which I used to subscribe.

I do read books too. The old-fashioned printed and bound kind (though I do read the occasional eBook). Mostly non-fiction, usually business-related or something for personal mental development. I do read some fiction, mostly science fiction.