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Pages: 206
Authors: Lyn Stone
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-07 - Publisher: Routledge

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Why is it that more people can’t read and write? Why are there still so many vastly different methods of teaching literacy? Why do people still argue about it
Reading Life
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Sven Birkerts
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-03 - Publisher:

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Reading a selection of novels for a second time, Birkerts reflects on his first readings and what later readings reveal about the passing of time and of memory.
The Social Life of Books
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Abigail Williams
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-27 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries
My Reading Life
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Pat Conroy
Categories: Authors, American
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing

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The author reviews a lifetime of reading, acknowledging the books that shaped his literary life and sharing anecdotes about how reading saw him through his most
Reading for Life
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Philip Davis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This volume presents original case-histories of readers to delve into just what reading is and how it works. Each chapter begins with a poem or excerpt which be