You dream about Googling a title, and reading the reviews. The reviews mostly sound interesting, and you want to find the book . . .

and wake up and realize that the book doesn't exist.

Besides talking about books and reading and why people read, I love talking about how people read. Two people can read the same book and not only have widely diverging opinions about it, but will describe it in such a way that you're not sure that they are describing the same book.

rushthatspeaks posted about perceived structure in such a way that I, with my ( Read more... )

Today dancinghorse, who runs the Writers' Camp I enjoyed so much last week, talks about the dangers of the rider who claims to be expert but isn'tShe touches on that brash (sometimes irritating, sometimes insane) sense of over-confidence in other aspects of life ( Read more... )

This post by catholicbiblio[phagist] resonated quite strongly with me ( Read more... )

Catholic Bibliophagist asks here "What makes a reader?" She refers to a Times article, and discusses it. (She also has some great posts before it, but alas on one of the blog formats my machine hates, and won't recognize the links for comments about half the time.)

personal experience below

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