This witty, refreshing treatise from a celebrated author and seasoned teacher is a passionate defense of reading — just for the joy of it....
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Jan 23, 2012
Anastasia
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Ne approfitto per regalare un grazie a tutte le mie letture. Non ricordo momenti vuoti nella mia vita da quando ci sono loro con me. Alcune mi hanno fatto innamorare e hanno timbrato il mio cuore, altre mi hanno occupato il tempo in maniera piuttosto piacevole lasciando qualche ricordo, altre sono passate un po' inosservate (mi dispiace, provate con il ragazzo della porta accanto). Tutte, in qualche modo, hanno saputo riempire le mie giornate, e incredibilmente ecco che Anastasia, da seduta, inf
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Feb 12, 2010
John
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First line: "You can't make someone read. Just as you can't make them fall in love or dream..." First U.S. edition of an eloquent defense of (among other things) the right to dip, skip and flip reading choices---available for many years in the UK, due out on this side of the Pond in November (but there are galleys).
Quentin Blake supplies both illustrations and an introduction. The latter includes a passage I'm still thinking about: "Am I just imagining it, or is there, More...
Quentin Blake supplies both illustrations and an introduction. The latter includes a passage I'm still thinking about: "Am I just imagining it, or is there, More...
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Feb 12, 2010
GraceAnne
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I am thinking of adding this to my children's and young adult literature class. It is such a profound paean to the joys of reading. John's review says it all.
I did add it, and here's something I wrote to my online students:
We need to look at Pennac's words from both sides: reading is indeed one of the most private of activities, but it is also one of the most shared. We take the story the writer gives us and it becomes something else in our heads or hearts or ears, becaus More...
I did add it, and here's something I wrote to my online students:
We need to look at Pennac's words from both sides: reading is indeed one of the most private of activities, but it is also one of the most shared. We take the story the writer gives us and it becomes something else in our heads or hearts or ears, becaus More...
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Jun 17, 2010
we never get what we want.we never want what we get.we never have what we love.we never love what we have.still we live.still we love.still we hope.this is life...
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Feb 09, 2011
Zeruhur
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Come un romanzo è un inno all’amore per la lettura, un manuale per il lettore, ma io preferisco denominarlo la mia “bibbia personale sulla lettura”.
Ogni volta che lo rileggo scopro nuove sfumature, nuovi spunti di lettura e anche nuove contraddizioni, perché questo agile saggio non è scevro da difetti. Ma in fondo non dovremmo leggere nell’autore né il romanziere che bene o male molti conoscono, né il professore di francese dei licei parigini, ma soprattutto un grande lettore.
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Ogni volta che lo rileggo scopro nuove sfumature, nuovi spunti di lettura e anche nuove contraddizioni, perché questo agile saggio non è scevro da difetti. Ma in fondo non dovremmo leggere nell’autore né il romanziere che bene o male molti conoscono, né il professore di francese dei licei parigini, ma soprattutto un grande lettore.
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Oct 29, 2011
The rights of the reader by Daniel Pennac; translated by Sarah Adams; foreword and illustrations by Quentin Blake
This book is just lovely for readers. Short essays – on reading, on the love of books, on why children love stories and why children become afraid of reading. Of a teacher who re-awakens the love of stories and reading – by reading. Don’t stand in the way!
for me there is the lovely piece about finding time to read:
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This book is just lovely for readers. Short essays – on reading, on the love of books, on why children love stories and why children become afraid of reading. Of a teacher who re-awakens the love of stories and reading – by reading. Don’t stand in the way!
for me there is the lovely piece about finding time to read:
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Oct 20, 2011
Христо
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Четенето, книгите, съвремието: “Като роман”, Даниел Пенак
http://www.knigolandia.info/2011/10/blog...
“Искам да изкрещя на целия свят
да прочете тази книга!”
Ники
“Като роман” ми бе подарена от колежката Николета, която списва симпатичния “Oh, books”. Даниел Пенак е написал една пъстра чуднотия, която започва от семейната битка с детето и четенето и се пренася сред селенията на четенето изобщо в съвременния живот, където, както Пиер Пиво в “Професия чита More...
http://www.knigolandia.info/2011/10/blog...
“Искам да изкрещя на целия свят
да прочете тази книга!”
Ники
“Като роман” ми бе подарена от колежката Николета, която списва симпатичния “Oh, books”. Даниел Пенак е написал една пъстра чуднотия, която започва от семейната битка с детето и четенето и се пренася сред селенията на четенето изобщо в съвременния живот, където, както Пиер Пиво в “Професия чита More...
Jun 16, 2011
Amandine
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Le seul Pennac qui m'ait attirée jusqu'à présent et certainement le seul que je lirai, mais un véritable coup de coeur aussi! Chaque relecture est un plaisir: le style est incroyablement fluide, ça se lit "comme un roman", un conte ou une belle histoire tout simplement. Je me retrouve souvent surprise d'arriver déjà à la fin, insatiable et impatiente lectrice que je suis.
Outre ses dix "droits imprescriptibles du lecteur" énumérés en 4e de couverture, Pennac y propo More...
Outre ses dix "droits imprescriptibles du lecteur" énumérés en 4e de couverture, Pennac y propo More...
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Mar 04, 2011
Claudia
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Just when I was feeling pretty low about teaching in general, Pennac's book reminded me of the passion I have for helping students become the readers they need to be.
This is told in stories, in short essays, all surrounding the need for authentic, passionate reading. He begins with the sadness a parent feels when he realizes that child who used to love stories, and reading, and books is now struggling to read a required book for a report. The agony parents and child feel is something More...
This is told in stories, in short essays, all surrounding the need for authentic, passionate reading. He begins with the sadness a parent feels when he realizes that child who used to love stories, and reading, and books is now struggling to read a required book for a report. The agony parents and child feel is something More...
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Dec 07, 2010
Misha
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I loved this book. It is such a sweet, thoughtful, unpretentious look at reading. How do we raise readers? How do we destroy a love of reading (or how to parents, teachers and schools do this...)? I just picked up a new translation of this book which is called "The Rights of the Reader" and it looks quite different--curious to try that translation, too. But this one was understated and so beautiful. I want to buy another copy to I can underline passage after passage!
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Feb 24, 2010
Janessa
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With wit, humor and passion, Pennac takes teachers and parents from the early years of a reader’s life through adulthood, mapping out all of the pitfalls the reader may encounter on the road to reading, and arguing that in the end, if our children do not read it is because we, their adults, have robbed them of the enjoyment of it. He develops ten rights that every reader should possess, and expresses the importance of these rules chapter by chapter, with anecdotes and examples. Quentin Blake’s
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Jun 14, 2009
Qian
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Reads Like a Novel is a heartfelt pleading for a new approach to the teaching and learning of a love of reading. Drawing on his experiences with his own son and as a school teacher, Pennac explains how the pressure put on children to read, and the narrow and dogmatic approach to teaching reading, take the pleasure out of the activity. He appeals for the enjoyment of a good story to be accepted as a central motivation for reading.
This argument has an underlying structure to it, but the pre More...
This argument has an underlying structure to it, but the pre More...
Nov 13, 2011
Lauren
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This book is a gem. Something that any reader will hold close to their heart. The essays are translated from the original French work by the educator Daniel Pennac. The book is full of amazing quotes. Some of my favorites:
"Time to read is always time stolen. Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living."
"By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living."
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"Time to read is always time stolen. Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living."
"By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living."
I particularly loved Part 3 - "The Gift of Reading More...
Oct 08, 2011
Luana
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Se alla domanda 'perché vorresti suggerire ad altri di leggere', come me, non avete idea di cosa rispondere e piazzate un muso similbaccalà leggete Come un romanzo .
E, se alla domanda 'perché a 20 anni, prima di uscire il Sabato sera, stai a casa a divorare nel senso letterale del termine pagine e pagine di lettura' sino ad ora non avevo saputo rispondere concretamente, adesso so rispondere dicendo così Come un romanzo .
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E, se alla domanda 'perché a 20 anni, prima di uscire il Sabato sera, stai a casa a divorare nel senso letterale del termine pagine e pagine di lettura' sino ad ora non avevo saputo rispondere concretamente, adesso so rispondere dicendo così Come un romanzo .
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May 29, 2011
Vasha7
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This short book is a polemic on the theme, "Young people nowadays don't like to read"? Why not? And even when it's repeated over and over, in our society, that reading is important, when schools insist on infusing books into their students... could that be the problem? Reading as duty; when you're assigned a book, you know you'll be quizzed, expected to demonstrate that you've "comprehended" it.
Comme un roman is Pennac's passionate plea in favor of the pleasure of r More...
Comme un roman is Pennac's passionate plea in favor of the pleasure of r More...
Dec 30, 2009
CaterinaAnna
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I found this book much easier to read than I had anticipated, finished it in almost one sitting and enjoyed it immensely. It is the type of thoughtful musing that one (or at least I) don't see often in English writing outside the pages of Granta - sort of an extended philosophical essay. However in this case it is leavened with dialogue, pen portraits of people and events in the development of a reader, and humour. There are also some phrases that I think are lovely, but I may need to read an En
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Mar 18, 2008
Genevieve
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What a lovely book about the pleasure of reading! While I was not the target audience of this book which is primarily speaking to teachers and parents about transmitting to children the pleasure of reading, I just loved that the author shares his love of books and why fiction is so important to our lives. (A reason I loved Reading Lolita in Tehran so much!) Daniel Pennac's prose is beautiful, and I read this book in an afternoon.
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Oct 26, 2010
Hakkalina
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I love these "rights". I also love Quentin Blake's drawings, which is so gorgeous, make this book "living". It is a funny, humourous book, nevertheless I was amazed how much it is true. I never thought about my reading behaviour, I mean how I do it, or what it means for me. But I should say, these "rights" are typical for my present English reading style. Sometimes I got a book, that I can't read through, or just skip, leave pages out, or reread, but how many times
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Nov 28, 2010
monica
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All'inizio non mi ispirava molto.. tutto quello che c'è scritto è vero, e dimostrabile osservando il comportamento degli adolescenti che adottano verso i libri. In un riassunto che avrebbe rizzato i capelli in testa a Pennac si può dire che Non bisogna imporre la lettura ai ragazzi, bensì lasciarli liberi di scoprire da soli quello che li appassiona, fare in modo che la loro fantasia si nutra dei romanzi che credono giusti per loro, anche se sembrano troppo "pesanti" per un'età giovane
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Aug 22, 2008
Walter
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A core book in my life and work, and perhaps the book from which I quote the most. This is a book you will dog-ear, underline, and highlight passages so that you can read them to friends and co-workers. You will buy five copies to give away--I have given away dozens!
Really, if you haven't read this and you are participating in a forum such as this, why on earth not?
Really, if you haven't read this and you are participating in a forum such as this, why on earth not?
Feb 08, 2012
Francesca
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Un gioiellino
UN libro da leggere e rileggere, consultare e consigliare, comprare e regalare, riservare e dedicare; “un corpo estraneo dotato di tutti i poteri e carico di tutti i pericoli”, “un ufo misteriosissimo praticamente indescrivibile vista la preoccupante semplicità delle sue forme e la proliferante molteplicità delle sue funzioni”, un pigiama in cui infilarsi tutte le sere prima di scomparire sotto le lenzuola della notte; UN libro per chi ama e per chi non ama leggere, per genitor More...
UN libro da leggere e rileggere, consultare e consigliare, comprare e regalare, riservare e dedicare; “un corpo estraneo dotato di tutti i poteri e carico di tutti i pericoli”, “un ufo misteriosissimo praticamente indescrivibile vista la preoccupante semplicità delle sue forme e la proliferante molteplicità delle sue funzioni”, un pigiama in cui infilarsi tutte le sere prima di scomparire sotto le lenzuola della notte; UN libro per chi ama e per chi non ama leggere, per genitor More...
Mar 07, 2011
Miranda
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I loved this little book! I think every bibliophile should read this, and especially every educator and/or parent responsible with introducing the world of books to children needs to read this book. I loved the outline of Pennac's 10 Rights of the Reader- basically the right to read what you want (or not), when you want, and in any way that suits you. A couple quotations really stood out for me- and can definitely be used if you ever need to defend your love of reading to anyone (even to yoursel
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Jan 08, 2011
Lys
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Non mi entusiasma lo stile di Pennac, anzi!, ma l'inno alla lettura che è Come un Romanzo fa passare questo mio fastidio in secondo piano.
I celeberrimi "diritti del lettore" enumerati in questo libro sono citati spesso - e altrettanto spesso a sproposito :p -, vale sicuramente la pena andare a leggerli in prima persona, permettendoci di condividere o opporci alle posizioni che assume l'autore.
Perché al di là del concordare o meno con alcune sue affermazioni, chiunque ami la lettura non More...
I celeberrimi "diritti del lettore" enumerati in questo libro sono citati spesso - e altrettanto spesso a sproposito :p -, vale sicuramente la pena andare a leggerli in prima persona, permettendoci di condividere o opporci alle posizioni che assume l'autore.
Perché al di là del concordare o meno con alcune sue affermazioni, chiunque ami la lettura non More...
May 12, 2009
Célia
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Numa das minhas incursões à Feira do Livro de Lisboa deste ano, aproveitei para trazer este livrinho, que me tinha despertado o interesse não só por ter gostado imenso do "Mágoas da Escola", mas também porque se trata de um livro que fala de livros e da paixão pela leitura. A curiosidade era tanta que acabei por lê-lo no dia que o comprei :)
É um livro pequeno, que se lê depressa, mas recheado de conteúdo. Nesta pequena dissertação, Daniel Pennac fala-nos da tarefa de incuti More...
É um livro pequeno, que se lê depressa, mas recheado de conteúdo. Nesta pequena dissertação, Daniel Pennac fala-nos da tarefa de incuti More...
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Jan 26, 2012
Raúl
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Un interesante ensayo (?) que da muchas pistas porque la gente no lee y no quiere hacerlo, y algunas cuantas ideas sobre como lograr que tus hijos/alumnos tomen un libro y lo disfruten. A decir verdad los primeros capítulos son un tanto flojos, así que de haber sido una novela lo hubiera abandonado, pero tenían la congruente virtud de durar sólo un par de paginas, lo cual dejaba avanzar sin mayor problema. Después el libro, cuando se pone personal, se vuelve interesante y especialmente bello el
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Feb 12, 2010
Walter
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My favorite book about the power of reading, now with Quentin Blake illustrations!
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Sep 15, 2011
Ivan
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The most famous part of this book is the 10 inalienable rights of the reader which I saw printed out around the libraries and I think there is even a poster version that can be bought.
Beside those rights and explanation of why are they important Pennac has really managed to write a book that is a story in which every passionate reader can recognize himself but told through a perspective of a parent and a school-teacher.
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Beside those rights and explanation of why are they important Pennac has really managed to write a book that is a story in which every passionate reader can recognize himself but told through a perspective of a parent and a school-teacher.
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May 26, 2009
Christian
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Quick read on how to instaure the love to read, espacially to kids and teens in this modern world of television and short attention span. Engaging analysis of the subject with fresh ideas and a good understanding of the classic pitfuls and the present day context.
The first few chapters read like a page-turner with the added integration of well-defined typical parenthood as a key relation to the perception of reading that develops.
Enjoyable, quirky and possibly practical. It wil More...
The first few chapters read like a page-turner with the added integration of well-defined typical parenthood as a key relation to the perception of reading that develops.
Enjoyable, quirky and possibly practical. It wil More...
Sep 30, 2010
Noura
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Un très joli plaidoyer pour la lecture, dans lequel je me suis à la fois retrouvée dans la petite fille qui apprend à lire et qui attend tous les soirs les contes et histoires sorties de l'imagination de son papa, puis dans l'ado désespérée devant les pages de La Chartreuse de Parme -dont la lecture m'a été imposé par M. D, professeur de français en 4ème, fan de Stendhal (je ne m'en suis toujours pas remise, mais un jour, j'arriverai à dépasser la page 48...). J'ai eu la chance de grandir entour
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