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A Love of Reading
Reviews of Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Every year, Robert Adams prepares a series of five reviews of contemporary novels, to be delivered alone on a theatre stage to sold-out audiences in Toronto and Montreal. In A Love of Reading Adams has now gathered 18 of his most brilliant reviews, from Jack Maggs by Peter Carey and The Poisonwood...
Packing My Library
An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries
In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment...
A Feeling for Books
The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. Janice...
Reclaiming Our Brains Without Losing Our Minds
Some Hows and Whys of a Reading Group
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Reclaiming Our Brains without Losing Our Minds relates the story of a group of women in the mid-sized town of Yakima, Washington, who form a reading group in dedicated pursuit of “the best that has been thought and said” in literature. Over the course of twenty-nine years, the women hone their...
A Year of Reading
A Month-by-Month Guide to Classics and Crowd-Pleasers for You or Your Book Group
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Desire a book to cozy up with by a wintery window? How about an addictive page-turner for sunbathing on the beach?
Thousands of new books are published each year, and if you're a book lover or just book curious choosing what to read next can seem like an impossible task. A Year of Reading...
Sight Words Preschool
Improving Writing & Reading Skills - Sight Word Books for pre-k Along With Cleaning Pen & Flash Cards
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
The most basic thing for the kids while growing is to get familiar with different learning aspects including writing, reading & more, and this is exactly where flash cards sight words book comes to help with sheer comfort and ease. Sight Words letter flash cards for kindergarten feature all in...
Books that Saved My Life
Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life’s most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.
Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich...
Plotting the Reading Experience
Theory/Practice/Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its...
by Ryan James
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2019
Do you want to:
Study better?
Be able to read faster and retain more information?
Make more efficient notes?
Pass tests more successfully?
Be more creative?
Engage in business armed with great focus and full comprehension?
Be able to read one book a day?
Then speed reading is the answer!...
Conrad's Reading
Space, Time, Networks
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and of Conrad's many fictional representations...
Between Pen and Pixel
Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best Academic/Scholarly Work
In Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future, Aaron Kashtan argues that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of the book. Debates over the future of the book tend to...
by Marianne Martens
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book demonstrates how the roles of “author,” “marketer,” and “reviewer” are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love.
Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers, parents and...
Speed Reading: Learn the Truth about Speed Reading! It Is Possible to Read Two or Three Times Faster
Speed Reading: Learn the Truth about Speed Reading! It Is Possible to Read Two or Three Times Faster
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Reading at a faster speed improves your reading experience. The book provides information on the tactics or strategies that one can implement to enhance their ability to read at much faster speeds. People often obtain secondary thoughts when they hear the word ‘speed reading’. However, the ability...
Tender Topics
Picture Books About Childhood Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A reading specialist, an outreach librarian, and a children’s librarian combine their considerable expertise in this essential guide for parents that brings reading, early literacy, child development issues, and picture books together. Advising parents who are wondering how to talk to their young...