Reading without losing the thread

This is where I write about what happens to our memory when we read fiction: the name you recognize but can't place, the series you pick back up a year later, the wiki that gives away the ending with a past-tense verb. And sometimes about Kai LoreSafe, which I built for exactly that; when it shows up, it comes with the bias of the person who made it.

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Mauro Z in a hat and glasses, photographed from above on the floor of an art exhibition in Bogotá covered entirely in books
Mauro Z. Leads strategy, innovation and AI adoption at a healthcare organization in Colombia and teaches at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He reads fiction for pleasure, and here he writes about remembering what you read without anyone giving away the ending.

Series

The Buendía family tree that doesn't give away the ending (or how to read One Hundred Years of Solitude without getting lost among all those Aurelianos)

The Buendía family tree floor by floor, up to where you are and no further, plus the clue the book leaves to tell the Aurelianos from the José Arcadios.

· 5 min read

More articles

Remembering

How to remember what you read without rereading the whole book (and why a summary is exactly what you don't need)

Almost nobody forgets what a book was about. What slips away is the index: who's who. Why a summary won't help you remember it, and what actually does.

· 5 min read

No spoilers

How to look up a character without getting spoiled (the wiki gives away the ending with a past-tense verb)

Spoilers don't only live in the obvious sentence: they hide in a past-tense verb, in the wiki's status box and in autocomplete. How to search with less risk.

· 5 min read

Series

What to remember before A Court of Splintered Harmony (everything from the first five books and nothing from the new one)

What to have fresh from the first five ACOTAR books before the sixth comes out on October 27: Feyre, the Archeron sisters, Elain and everything left open.

· 4 min read

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