Sound Strategies for Summer Reading
Booklists for recommended summer reading often use images of paperback spines stretched across colorful beach towels or exciting covers tucked into a carry-on bag en route to some far off destination to conjure the feeling of getting away. Yet rarely do such lists acknowledge the damage that waterlogged pages and books left behind in rental cars and Airbnbs can do your library card fines balance! We at Off the Shelf are realists and see it as our duty to remind you that e-audiobooks, which take up no luggage space nor become homes to stowaway beach sand, are perfect for passing the hours on…
Whitman's Spirit in the Gig Economy
Don't Sleep on These Perfect Books for World Sleep Day
As someone concerned about his fraught relationship with sleep, I know a considerable bit about the optimal conditions it seems to require--considerably more it seems than I am able to actually implement. In practice I favor a ‘whatever it takes’ approach in which 30 Rock has autoplayed me to sleep more times than I care to count, more effectively than the sheep I care not to count and in full knowledge that it is precisely that type of bad sleep hygiene that Arianna Huffington, et al suggest is keeping me from a sustainably healthy relationship with sleep. No blue light--create for yourself…