Why I Write Book Reviews
Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. Please leave any comments there.
This is part of the reason why I write book reviews (other than that it is fun of course). While I can’t provide a reading course, I can provide solid thinking about reading from my own perspective.
“Perhaps if people today were to take good reading course, they would be better off. Americans don’t read enough (that’s true) and Americans read too much (that’s true too). What I mean is that many don’t read enough material to really be informed, and yet they read too much because what they do read they often do not stop to assimilate and think through. They whiz through it and get what I call a first-order experience, a sort of mystical feeling, not a genuine understanding. I urge you, with all my soul, in such a day as ours to really, truly learn to read”
Francis Schaeffer Back to Freedom and Dignity ( InterVarsity Press, 1972), p. 18.
HT: Provocative Church