Genre Category: Essays/Articles on Reading

Is Reading Online is Making Us Stupid?

Filed under: Essays/Articles on Reading, Pondering Reading, Writing about Reading

There is an interesting article in The Atlantic about reading and our changing reading habits, thanks to the Internet.
I think the author has some great points: internet has changed the way I read, and that’s why I’m feeling a need to really read deeply right now.
In Google’s world, the world we enter when we go [...]

HTR&W Prologue: Why Read?

Filed under: Challenges, Essays/Articles on Reading, Pondering Reading, Writing about Reading

I’m giving away a copy of How to Read and Why to someone joining my personal challenge. Read my discussion of the preface for more information.
This is a very long post; I’m breaking my own rules of length because I spent a long time reading and pondering Bloom’s prologue, and I have a lot of [...]

HTR&W Preface and A Challenge

Filed under: Challenges, Essays/Articles on Reading, Pondering Reading, Writing about Reading

I like to read. I’ve decided it’s time I learn how to read.
I don’t know when I first figured out how to read the written word, but I’ve always been a reader. When I was young, I’d ride my bicycle to the library and return home with my backpack full of books. I’d devour each [...]

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