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Old Apr 05, 2008, 09:20 PM
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No, the book is about. . . books About how we're not reading them as much as we use to but that that's okay because we're still "reading" but now have so much info on the Internet, etc. and I think one of her points is that it doesn't matter what we read, we're reading. I don't get the book until Monday or Tuesday though (Amazon). The subtitle is called "Against Reading" and another of her points is illustrated by a personal comment: </font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
But while reading may have expanded my imagination and broadened my inner life, it also narrowed my outer one, turning me from an ordinary, introspective teenager into a barely functional recluse. Although I hardly noticed it, buried in the attic with my books, at some point during my teenage years my dad moved out, my brothers dropped out of school and left home, and my mother rented out their empty rooms.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> I guess I'm glad I'm just e-mailing her rather than having to read that and see her face-to-face?
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