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Chargement... The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (édition 2011)par Alan Jacobs
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Encouragement and tips for those interested in rediscovering, or if you're lucky, maintaining, the joyful ability to utterly lose oneself in a book for long periods of time in our modern, distracting age. Read at whim, place yourself in serendipity's path (forget trying to follow a set plan of reading, "100 Books You Must Read" style), read slowly, don't think you shouldn't re-read books you've read in the past as you can often come across something new even in a well-loved "familiar" work. Refreshing in that the author, a literature professor, does not take the anti-technology route, which a book of this nature might be suspected to. Jacobs in fact found that reading on a Kindle gave him back his ability to concentrate for long periods of time on a book. Really sweet short book about reading for pleasure, funny, educated, very humanistic. This book has inspired me to read more slowly to appreciate what I’m reading and to re-read books (which I rarely do). Recommended by Freddie DeBoer whose book (“Cult of Smart”) I enjoyed last year and whose SubStack blog I have been finding very interesting and provocative: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The author argues that reading is alive and well in America. Millions of devoted readers support hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It also didn't help that Jacobs is a Professor, and writes like one: in a heavily academic style which made my eyes glaze over. Then there was the constant repetition. He reiterated his points over and over again, and even re-quoted his sources, leaving me to wonder if I'd accidentally flipped back a few pages. I finished the book thinking this could have been better as a punchy essay rather than as a full-length book.
Still, I can definitely get behind the core philosophy of this book: read primarily for enjoyment, read at whim, and don't read so you can check something off a list. Great! I'm all for telling readers to embrace their own individual reading tastes, guilt-free.
The main piece of advice that really resonated with me was the concept that reading is something that works best when done in solitude. As someone who's tried to sneak chapters amidst the daily hustle of family life, this piece of insight really struck a chord. It’s not me; it’s the chaos of the living room! Realizing that my environment is at least partly to blame for my reading frustrations was a genuine lightbulb moment.
Jacobs also reminds us that life is noisy, and distractions have always been around. Even our ancestors struggled to keep their attention glued to a book; somehow, knowing that made me feel better about my own wandering focus. ( )