Reading for Pleasure: O Absalom

Reading for Pleasure

money we had." The distinctive identity and qualities of the individual initiating the message evoke a mental image with a pattern of association that arouses corresponding expectation. In like manner, the growth of biographical writings to a recognised literary species in recent decades reflects the public's appetite for personal record. The brief snatches I present here reflect but the merest...

Reading for pleasure

The test of a good book, said Lord Snow in a recent television programme, was whether you could remember its content a year later. I am an insatiable reader with a memory like a sieve, so that only the flavour remains-and perhaps a quotation or two in my diary. When I was a boy I used to write precis, but adult laziness has forced me to keep lists only. Why then do I read? It is an obsession, m...

Reading, Risk, and Reality: College Students and Reading for Pleasure

Julie Gilbert is Academic Librarian, Assistant Professor, and Barbara Fister is Academic Librarian, Professor, at the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library at Gustavus Adolphus College; e-mail: Jgilber2@gustavus. edu,[email protected].© Julie Gilbert and Barbara Fister News reports and well-publicized government studies have led to a popular perception that reading is an endangered activity, part...

Identifying the Effective factors on Pleasure reading

Background and aim: An important factor to tendency for read and increase per capita reading is enjoy the reading. Pleasure reading has significant impact on the continuity of reading and lifelong readers. This is very important in Iran due low per capita. It must be understood what factors are influencing and creating of Pleasure reading. Therefore, this study aim is, identify the experiences ...

Understanding boys ’ ( dis ) engagement with reading for pleasure Project findings