Contemporary Bits on Reading (more suggestions?)
Rachel Jennings sends this link on "The Twilight Zone," an episode in which a man who loves to read cannot find the time until...
http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/
Also new books: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, a spoof on the Queen's new engagement with reading.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Shaffer and Borrows, the charming story of a reading society (told in epistolary style) that formed on the island of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands between France and England, during German occupation of the island in WWII.
Stevie Smith has a new book of essays, out this month, Changing My Mind. There are a few interesting essays on her reading of Forster, Barthes, Nabokov in a section called "Reading."
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PUSH by Sapphire has been a recent hit that focuses on reading and learning how to write. (This is the book that the movie "Precious" was made into.)
ReplyDeleteFUN HOME by Alison Bechdel-- graphic novel about the author's relationship to her English teacher father. Including in depth looks at the difficulties of reading "Ulysses"!
~Rachel