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How Well Read are You? The BBC’s 100 Book Test

Anita Mathias — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:51:00 +0000

How Well-Read are You–BBC’s 100 Book Test Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. . Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt. 63 read, […]

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ADAPTING YOUR READING HABITS TO A NEW TECHNOLOGY

Anita Mathias — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:48:00 +0000

ADAPTING YOUR READING HABITS TO A NEW TECHNOLOGY Do watch this hilarious sketch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cd7Bsp3dDo&feature=player_embedded Bookmark this on Delicious

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The Folly of Speed-reading literature!

Anita Mathias — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:46:00 +0000

Get all that? … the closing lines of Pride and Prejudice given a speed read. Photograph: Frank BaronYOU CAN’T SPEED-READ LITERATURE!EVAN MALONEY The celebrated academic Harold Bloom is a lightning fast reader; blink and he’s probably turned the page – twice. In his prime he could churn through 1,000 pages an hour, which means he could […]

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Reading Recovery

Anita Mathias — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:30:00 +0000

A Reading Recovery PlanRichard Foster said, If you are too busy to read, you are too busy. I don’t read as much as I used to–a book a day. Inspired by a Facebook friend who is reading 50 pages a day, I’ve started a reading recovery project. Start where I am, and add a page […]

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Jeanette Winterson, Reading provides roots for a writer

Anita Mathias — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:22:00 +0000

Jeanette Winterson, Who do you like to read? I’m an old-fashioned girl. That is, I’m on the side of Harold Bloom. Everybody should read the Canon of Western Literature, even if you don’t accept it as canonical. For a reader, it’s riches. For a writer, it’s roots. A lot of modern work is rootless and […]

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