I’m putting aside my novel writing for the summer. I’ve decided to concentrate on other blog themes, and catch up on things like gardening, home decorating, and of course, reading, an enduring summer pleasure. With the new TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in the news, I headed… Read More »The Disturbing Attraction of the Dystopian Novel
For me, reading is magical, and has been a part of my life since I was five years old, when I first started to make sense of the squiggles in the old comic strip, “Annie” In a previous post, I quoted Alberto Manguel, whose words are so apt, that I… Read More »The Enduring Appeal of Reading
Is reading in danger? Are print books doomed? As a reader all of my life, I would be devastated if that was so. I remember the exact moment I learned to make sense of the printed word, and I remember witnessing that moment in my students, but I could never… Read More »Are Print Books Doomed? Gone Like the Dodo Bird, the 8 Track Tape?
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