Status Updates From How to Read a Novel

I agree with this chapter. There are so many books out there it's hard to find what to read. This book is a little hard to read though given it's layout and how it uses some big words.

Wow!...that Bill Gates' prediction made in 2005 about "books to bytes" has come to life.

"If you want to know the overall health of a society, look at the quality of the books it is currently consuming ... All the boats go up with the book." p.13

" Our reading preferences are when carefully examined, as uniquely different, and as revealing, as our fingerprints." p. 35

I liked the quote by D.H. Lawrence "If you try to nail anything down in the novel you either kill the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail."

I found this book for a buck at the Bartow Library book sale. It is one that so far is very engaging. I like his voice. and how he looks at books and the novel especially.

The author John Sutherland often uses the phrase "More of this later", to defer in the elaboration of his points to readers, which I sorta doubt. It's getting quite annoying, frankly...

"The more fiction you read, and the more intelligently you do so, the richer your experience will be. Those readers who read most get most out of it."

'Is Heathcliff a swine or a tragic hero?': throw that question into the reading group and stay back.

"Russians of the reading classes indeed had enviable
amenities - notably more leisure time and more servants."
:)

Chatty, annoying, dimwitted. If this were a magazine article I would've stopped by now.

It's time I finally learned how to read a novel.