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How to Write a Sentence
And How to Read One
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.”
—Roy Blount Jr.
“Language lovers will flock to this homage to great writing.”
—Booklist
Outspoken New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers an entertaining, erudite...
Learning to Read
Get Enticed By Good Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book was designed to help parents help their children become proficient readers and writers. The book also can be used by professors and graduate students to help children who struggle with reading to become readers and writers.
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing...
Elementary Korean Second Edition
(Downloadable Audio Included)
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This is a comprehensive and detailed introductory Korean textbook and language learning package.
Korean is now the 15th most popular language taught at American universities. This new edition of Elementary Korean, the most comprehensive and detailed introductory Korean textbook available, offers...
More Baths Less Talking
Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,” Nick Hornby tells us. That simple, liberating, and indispensable directive animates each installment of the celebrated critic and author’s monthly column in the Believer. In this delightful and never-musty tour of his reading life, Hornby tells us not...
by Nick Hornby
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
"How often do you begin reading a book that makes you-immediately, urgently, desperately-want to read more books?” (Booklist). Nick Hornby has managed to write just such a book in this hilarious, insightful, and infectious volume. Ten Years in the Tub chronicles Hornby's journey through a decade’s...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2018
Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger (Trivia/Quiz for Fans)
Download your own copy now of Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger by Whiz Books and start reading your favorite book in trivia and quiz format as a challenge for yourself or with and family!...
by Phyllis Rose
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment—to read her way through a random shelf of library books, LEQ–LES
Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore...
Read This Next
500 of the Best Books You’ll Ever Read
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Are you tired of bland, overly earnest reading guides that discuss the same old books? Read This Next by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark is the answer. A smart, irreverent, honest, and truly hilarious guide to your 500 new favorite books, Read This Next is aimed at those readers and book groups...
Ex Libris
Confessions of a Common Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
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...
Ruined By Reading
A Life in Books
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996
'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we read and how what we read shapes our lives. An enchanting celebration of the printed word.
by SpeedyReads
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Wanna Read But Not Enough Time?
Then, grab a SpeedyReads of The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Now!
Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book:
PROLOGUE
We are introduced to Lisa Allen, a participant in a scientific study centering on how individuals with destructive habits...
On Reading
An Essay
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
“It is childish to suppose that a hundred books can be named as those which are the best for each and every one. The simplest experience of the world proves that a work of great excellence may deeply move one person, while it leaves another untouched; and that a book which has influenced one strongly...
Nothing Remains the Same
Rereading and Remembering
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
A New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year: A look at the pleasures and surprises of rereading.
Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal—it involves a complex interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor...