Comments on: More books about books

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:28:03 +0000

yeah, yeah, socrates, bill and ted whatev. but black cowboy canada? awesome!

By: caleb

caleb — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:46:36 +0000

no, it was you, but I must have gotten wrong what you said. I figured you had burned out on history nf.

all of the fiction i’ve been reading lately have appendixes with literary criticism in them. how do we count it then?

By: amd

amd — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:12:05 +0000

you’ve got me mixed up with someone else - my non-fiction to fiction ratio is like 3:1, higher if you don’t let me count re-reading fiction

By: caleb

caleb — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:30:11 +0000

Hmm, I thought you didn’t read non-fiction, as a rule? I think the third section is definitely strongest, up until she starts to talk about the cultural implications of things, and there I’d be curious about your response.

I sent it down the book drop already but she has some spiel about learning to read fully means learning to reflect critically on what we’re reading and how the internet puts at risk of children not learning to do that, or worse, learning not to do it.

And to me, personally, I am not a very good reader, above average by test scores, but critical reflection happens for me mostly when I write, or talk about what I’ve read, and sometimes, when I read something else. And I think that’s just fine.

By: amd

amd — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:51:19 +0000

I bought this to read on a long flight, but I read from the other 9 books I had with me that day instead. Since then, I’ve never been able to get very far with it. I am finding this post very validating.