By: Mary Lee,
on 8/19/2011
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FIT TO BE CALLED READING
by Robert Louis Stevenson
In anything fit to be called
by the name of reading,
the process itself
should be
absorbing
and
voluptuous;
we should gloat over a book,
be rapt
clean out of ourselves
and rise from the perusal,
our mind
filled
with the busiest,
kaleidoscopic dance of images,
incapable of sleep
or of continuous thought.
The words,
if the book be eloquent,
should run thenceforth in our ears like the noise of
breakers,
and the story,
if it be a story,
repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures
to the eye.
from Memories and Portraits, but found in The Pocket R. L. S. : Being Favourite Passages From the Works of Stevenson, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922
Thank you, AJ, for sharing this passage-turned-poem (by me) in your little leather-bound 1922 collection of R. L. S. quotes and passages.
Here are a couple of links from some recent discussions about the love of reading:
Alan Jacobs in The Journal of Higher Education
and a response from
Donalyn Miller at Education Week.
Where do you stand of the love of reading?
Today, the Poetry Friday Round Up is at Dori Reads.
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By: Jenny Miller,
on 8/27/2010
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But how will he practice his letters now? And will his tail ever be as waggy again?
By: Mary Lee,
on 2/3/2007
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Picture Books
How a Book is Made by Aliki
Souper Chicken by Mary Jane and Herm Auch
Wolf by Becky Bloom
The Day Eddie Met the Author by Louise Borden
Across a Dark and Wild Sea by Don Brown
But Excuse Me That is my Book by Lauren Child
Book! by Kristine O'Connell George
Check it Out! The Book About Libraries by Gail Gibbons
The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers
Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
Jake's 100th Day of School by Lester Laminack
Book by George Ella Lyon
Santa's Book of Names by David McPhail
Edward and the Pirates by David McPhail
Edward in the Jungle by David McPhail
Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora
Amelia Hits the Road by Marissa Moss
The Girl Who Hated Books by Manjusha Pawagi
Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair by Patricia Polacco
Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
Reading Grows by Ellen Senisi
Wild About Books by Judy Sierra
The Hard Times Jar by Ethel Footman Smothers
From Pictures to Words: A Book About Making a Book by Janet Stevens
The Library by Sarah Stewart
Library Lil by Suzanne Williams
The Old Woman Who Loved to Read by John Winch
The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter
Chapter Books
Magic by the Book by Nina Berenstein
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Seven Day Magic by Edward Eager
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
The Big Green Book by Robert Graves
Fly By Night by Francis Hardinge
The Book of Story Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup
Looking Back: A Book of Memories by Lois Lowry
Summer Reading is Killing Me by Jon Scieszka
At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant
The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley
Poetry
Good Books, Good Times by Lee Bennett Hopkins
The Bookworm's Feast by J. Patrick Lewis
Please Bury Me in the Library by J. Patrick Lewis
Quotations
Quotations for Kids by J.A. Senns
Books For Adults That Could Be Used For Exerpts
Life is So Good by George Dawson
Grand Conversations by Ralph Peterson and Maryann Eeds
The Polysyllabic Spree and Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby
Better Than Life by Daniel Pennac
How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
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Check this out, too: A Notes from the Windowsill annotated bibliography of book-books by Wendy E. Betts.
Wow, the description on Amazon for Little Bee is awfully cryptic! I'm intrigued! Which I guess is what they want, right? ;)
Little Bee is one of my books for an upcoming book club. I think I may have listened to it in the audio format, too. I am a huge audiobooks fan.
I do that too...jump from book to book because the idea of starting another one that I want to read sounds like fun. There are just too many great books! Darth Paper is such fun and I'm really excited for Fake Mustache and Lunch Lady and the Mathletes.
I was not a huge fan of Little Bee. It was really sad for me and I didn't feel like the ending had to be the way it was. I thought it was a sad ending. I love time travel and have seen this new Stephen King here and here and it looks interesting...but I am always wary of Stephen King! Is it spooky/scary/creepy/squeam-inducing or not? I don't do scary. :)
Based on the description, I did NOT want to read the book. I'm glad I did, but I agree with Jen about the ending.
There is a little bit of gratuitous creepiness here and there...almost like he couldn't help himself. But mostly (not quite half through) it is historical fiction/time travel. Very different for King.