Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Today I'm doing the Philosophy of Reading Book Tag, created by Lekden @arockinsamsara to celebrate the Buddhist holiday Wheel Turning Day. Read more about that below!
Lekden's video
youtube.com/watch?v=eOh2LDrn5_U
I was tagged by Lekden and also Kevin @KevinTowleReads and Pat @BookChatWithPat8668
Thanks, everyone!
The Philosophy of Reading Booktag
Chökor Düchen, (or “Wheel Turning Day,”) is the Buddhist holiday recognizing Śākyamuni Buddha’s first sermon, where he taught the Four Noble Truths, the foundation of all Buddhist philosophical thought. In celebration of that holiday I designed an original booktag to explore the philosophy of our reading lives.
In keeping in line with the Four Noble Truths in that original sermon the tag only has four prompts, but they are open-ended enough that you can be as pithy or chatty as you like!
The Prompts
Please share a book related to or exemplifying each prompt for you as well.
1. What is your own personal philosophy of reading? (How do you think about reading? What does reading mean to you? How does your reading life affect your non-reading life? etc.)
2. When did you first come to think of yourself as a “Reader?”
3. What are some goals or hopes that you have for your reading life?
4. What is part of your current reading life, right now, that is important or exciting for you?
There is no prompt to tag others, please do anyway!
Authors Mentioned in No Particular Order!
Anthony Trollope
Octavia Butler
Kate Atkinson
Louise Erdrich
Colson Whitehead
Colm Toibin
Percival Everett
J.D. Salinger
Jane Austen
Emily St. John Mandel
Ann Patchett
James McBride
Justin Torres
Dan Chaon
Larry McMurtry
Lydia Sandgren
Wilkie Collins
Today I'm doing the Philosophy of Reading Book Tag, created by Lekden @arockinsamsara to celebrate the Buddhist holiday Wheel Turning Day. Read more about that below!
Lekden's video
youtube.com/watch?v=eOh2LDrn5_U
I was tagged by Lekden and also Kevin @KevinTowleReads and Pat @BookChatWithPat8668
Thanks, everyone!
The Philosophy of Reading Booktag
Chökor Düchen, (or “Wheel Turning Day,”) is the Buddhist holiday recognizing Śākyamuni Buddha’s first sermon, where he taught the Four Noble Truths, the foundation of all Buddhist philosophical thought. In celebration of that holiday I designed an original booktag to explore the philosophy of our reading lives.
In keeping in line with the Four Noble Truths in that original sermon the tag only has four prompts, but they are open-ended enough that you can be as pithy or chatty as you like!
The Prompts
Please share a book related to or exemplifying each prompt for you as well.
1. What is your own personal philosophy of reading? (How do you think about reading? What does reading mean to you? How does your reading life affect your non-reading life? etc.)
2. When did you first come to think of yourself as a “Reader?”
3. What are some goals or hopes that you have for your reading life?
4. What is part of your current reading life, right now, that is important or exciting for you?
There is no prompt to tag others, please do anyway!
Authors Mentioned in No Particular Order!
Anthony Trollope
Octavia Butler
Kate Atkinson
Louise Erdrich
Colson Whitehead
Colm Toibin
Percival Everett
J.D. Salinger
Jane Austen
Emily St. John Mandel
Ann Patchett
James McBride
Justin Torres
Dan Chaon
Larry McMurtry
Lydia Sandgren
Wilkie Collins
