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Talk About Books: A Study of Reading Groups

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There have always been naysayers spouting off about the dangers of reading. Don Quixote may have been the first example – his constant late-night reading “dried up his brain.” Several savants in the late 1800’s wrote about the danger to young girls of too much fiction reading, not to mention germs on well-thumbed library books! COVID-19? Massachusetts passed laws related to selling certain types of books (such as criminal biographies) to those under age 16 without parental consent. I read this thriller recently, and the main character was a police officer. But he was so two-dimensional. Totally unbelievable.

These quotes encapsulate the joy, the education, and the transformative power that comes with being lost in a good book. Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.” Contributing to and carrying out a reading questionnaire about their favourite books, authors and reading habits to survey family and friends (as explained above). In a non-fiction book, there are no characters. There may be a story and there may be a person that the book is about. But usually, it is a book that tries to give the reader information or knowledge.

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Too much reading, especially of fiction, could also lead to insomnia and insanity; it could grow in its addictive nature like alcohol or drugs. (Yes! It’s 2 a.m. but I’m going to finish this last chapter!) Reading can become a substitute for life. True, and we’ve all also read that writing can become a substitute for life too – some write about it rather than live it. But it’s better than us spending our time playing video games. Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.” Every minute that you give to How Proust Can Change Your Life is a minute that you're not spending with Remembrance of Things Past." p.140-1 Includes an assessment and outcome measures: the Talkabout assessment includes a method of quantifying results and if you attend Alex’s training, she gives you additional systems to measure effectiveness through using targets and spreadsheets.Definitely worth reading, and will give you a pretty good idea of whether (or not) you want to read the book, I think. Science-fiction – or sci-fi as it often known by fans – often involves stories that take place in the future. Or the stories could be about technology.

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