How To Read A Book

by Adler and Van Doren

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How to Read a Book,originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, alivingclassic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated.You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to spee
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Ex Libris: Confessions Of A Common Reader

by Anne Fadiman

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Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recou
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading For Every Mood, Moment, And Reason

by Nancy Pearl

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Presents 170 themed reading lists designed for any type of reading, from "hick lit" to books on bicycling, covering a wide variety of tastes andopics.
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Uncommon Reader: A Novella

by Alan Bennett

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A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen, in pursuit of her wandering corgis, stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palace kitchen who frequents the library, Bennett describes the Queen's transformation as she discovers the liberating pleasures of the written word. With the poignant and
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Reading Like A Writer: A Guide For People Who Love Books And For Those Who Want To Write Them

by Francine Prose

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Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In READING LIKE A WRITER, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers--Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen,
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Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir In Books

by Azar Nafisi

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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to
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Read Aloud Handbook

by Jim Trelease

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Every child can become an avid reader, & this beloved, classic guide - now newly revised - will show you how to make it happen
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How To Read And Why

by Harold Bloom

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Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

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It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she
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Polysyllabic Spree

by Nick Hornby

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"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else," writes Nick Hornby in his "Stuff I've Been Reading" column in The Believer. "If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. Go on, try it. The Magic Flute v. Middlemarch? Middlemarch in six. The Last Suppe
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Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate Of Reading In An Electronic Age

by Sven Birkerts

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In The Gutenberg Elegies, nationally renowned critic Sven Birkerts powerfully argues that we are living in a state of intellectual emergency - an emergency caused by our willingness to embrace new technologies at the expense of the printed word. As we rush to get "on line, " as we make the transition from book to screen, says Birkerts, we are turning against some of the core premises of humanism -
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More Book Lust: Recommended Reading For Every Mood, Moment, And Reason

by Nancy Pearl

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The Seattle librarian who created the popular program "If All of Seattle Readhe Same Book" organizes readers' interests into 150 categories, recommendingreat books in each.
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How To Read Literature Like A Professor: A Lively And Entertaining Guide To Reading Between The Lines

by Thomas C. Foster

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A fun and practical introduction to literature and literary basics--symbols, themes, and contexts--shows how to make everyday reading experiences more rewarding and enjoyable.
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Proust And The Squid: The Story And Science Of The Reading Brain

by Maryanne Wolf

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Developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, How do we learn to read and write? This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.
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Inkheart

by Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke, the enormously talented author of the international best-seller THE THIEF LORD, brings readers another spellbinding tale of adventure and magic. Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a book-binder. But her father has a deep secret-- he posseses an extraordinary magical power. One day a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her father's past. Who is this siniste
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding And Losing Myself In Books

by Maureen Corrigan

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“It’s not that I don’t like people,” writes Maureen Corrigan in her introduction toLeave Me Alone, I’m Reading. “It’s just that there always comes a moment when I’m in the company of others—even my nearest and dearest—when I’d rather be reading a book.” In this delightful memoir, Corrigan reveals which books and authors have s
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New Lifetime Reading Plan

by Major and Fadiman

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Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, "The New Lifetime Reading Plan" provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader r
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How Reading Changed My Life

by Anna Quindlen

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THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices on matters political, social, economic, and cultural, will enlighten, comfort, entertain, enrage, and ignite healthy debate across the country.
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Books: You Must Read Before You Die

by Peter Boxall

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Peter Boxall offers reviews, author biographies, plot and character assessments and historical information on those books he considers the most important, compelling, or simply the best fiction ever written.
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Passion For Books: A Book Lover's Treasury Of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, And Lists On Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending

by Kaplan and Rabinowitz

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"When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing." --Desiderius Erasmus Those who share Erasmus's love of those curious bundles of paper bound together between hard or soft covers know exactly how he felt. These are the people who can spend hours browsing through a bookstore, completely oblivious not only to the passage of time but to everything else around th
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