Description
Book SynopsisAlan Jacobs offers a witty, literate, and accessible guide for aspiring readers, offering tips on what to read and how to get the most out of it. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction or poetry or even the Bible, from reading responsively, to rereading, to reading on electronic devices.
Trade ReviewHe writes with panache...it is excellent * The Tablet *
fascinating study * Writing Magazine *
Delightful yet discombobulating * The Wall Street Journal *
what could be nicer to read than a book about how nice reading is? * Steven Poole, The Guardian *
lively volume...prepare to be engrossed. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
A vigorous and friendly exhortation to get back into the kind of reading that made you a reader in the first place. * Library Journal *
Table of ContentsYes, we can ; Whim ; All in your head ; Aspirations ; Upstream ; Responsiveness ; Kindling ; Slowly, slowly ; True confessions ; Lost ; Abbot Hugh's advice ; The triumphant return of Adler and Van Doren ; Plastic attention ; Getting schooled ; Quiet, please ; One more, with feeling ; Judge, Jury, Executioner ; In solitude, for company ; Serendip ; How it all started
