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Maybe someday
34
/100
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Readers
7/100Critics
61/100Scholars
Author:
Heather Cass White
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
July 6, 2021
A University of Alabama professor explores the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives, advocating for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading and encouraging readers to trust in the value of the exhilaration and fascination such reading entails.
What The Reviewers Say
... less a bromide on the pleasures of reading and more an existential dive into the word-saturated brain. Her rewarding book pokes and probes our reading consciousness in order to overturn the nature of textual engagement, like stirring the ocean floor to find the strange, ghostly invertebrates living in its depths.
She’s every bit as ready to write about the healing, uniting power of reading, but her pages aren’t populated with wistful vicars and earnest librarians with tiny apartments crammed with books.
It flows almost like poetry and draws the reader into the experience of reading, and at the same time informs a perspective of reading.
... discerning.
