Archive - Books + Bits

But how do you read so much?

Because there are so many other things I DON'T do

Mar 10, 2023 • Pandora Sykes

This year's viral memoir will make your blood boil

Strangers, by Belle Burden

Mar 12 • Pandora Sykes

Tina Brown on intellectual serendipity, the Elon Musk era and why "magazines are mostly done"

An interview with the iconic editor turned Substacker

Jan 21, 2025 • Pandora Sykes

Three novels for January

And three that didn't quite land for me

Jan 15 • Pandora Sykes

64 evergreen gift ideas for those who missed the boat

For Christmas and beyond

Jan 8 • Pandora Sykes

In conversation with Jack Edwards, the internet's librarian

He's the most influential reader in Britain—and he's only 26

Aug 6, 2025 • Pandora Sykes

Congrats if you managed to get anything done this week

Jan 25 • Pandora Sykes

My top 15 novels of the last 3 years

For my one-book-a-year girlies

Jun 27, 2025 • Pandora Sykes

Life, interrupted (and Bits #36)

Things to read, watch, listen to, chew over, through my current curve ball

May 20, 2025 • Pandora Sykes

All the books I've read in 2024

That I can remember/ locate

Dec 24, 2024 • Pandora Sykes

Over 25 things to read, watch, listen to, chew over

Aug 24, 2025 • Pandora Sykes

On reading versus living

A guest essay by Ochuko Akpovbovbo on why she's trying to read less

Jan 14, 2025 • Pandora Sykes and Ochuko Akpovbovbo

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