Compound of 積む (tsumu, “to pile up”) + 読 (doku, “to read, reading”, on'yomi), punning on 積んどく (tsundoku), contraction of 積んでおく (tsunde oku, “to leave piled up”).
We asked some of Market Leader’s editorial board to share their own Tsundokos.
This is what they showed us.
Send your own tsundokos to be featured in the next edition of Market Leader.
We need a picture of the pile of books alongside a paragraph explaining your selection.
Also... see this Huffington Post piece about Tsundoku.
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A slightly odd book pile I suspect, and I am absolutely hopeless at actually reading books, although full of good intentions From the left I have a book by Tim Smit’s son, Tim being founder of the Eden Project, and it came to me via Unbound, as did the Empire of Booze, and both sounded interesting. The second was tracing the Empire’s history by the drinks we’ve brought in and grown accustomed to, so culture and commerce. Men Like Air is a novel written by a really good... |
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