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week 2: my response
My responses to our second set of prompts and exercises.
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🕯️Wuthering Heights
Week 2: Reflecting on Chapters 2-7 and getting into our next chapters
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week 2: setting up every reading session for success
Four Sundays. Four exercises. A year of better reading.
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🕯️Wuthering Heights
Week 1: Reflecting on Chapter 1 and getting into our next chapters
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week 1: my response
Revealing my answers to our first prompt
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🕯️Wuthering Heights
Week 2: Reflecting on Chapters 2-7 and getting into our next chapters
Jan 12
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haley larsen, phd
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🕯️Wuthering Heights
Week 1: Reflecting on Chapter 1 and getting into our next chapters
Jan 7
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A special introduction to Wuthering Heights
Week 1 with the novel, featuring a guest essay from expert Jessica Leigh Allen
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📚 how to understand an academic article
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6 lessons I learned in grad school
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getting into (and staying with) a big book
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May 25, 2025
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finding what feels good in reading
week 8 in the "become a close(r) reader" series: a final exercise to help you gather the energy and confidence to turn your goals into a habitual…
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