This is third part in a series where I muse on what makes for a book a reader can get lost in, prompted in part by a recent reread of the devourable YA novel, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Read PART I & PART II. Something to be established at the outset: I rarely use […]
This is Part II in a series of posts in which I explore what it means to get lost in a book and how it happens. (Read Part I HERE.) A question worth asking at the outset is: Do you like getting lost? (Which is to say, Are you okay with the surrender inherent to
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What started as a simple post about getting lost in a book has morphed into a larger topic that I’d like to continue to explore, so I’ve decided to allow this to be a series. Part I lays some groundwork and asks some questions. My mother says I learned how to read before I started
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Last summer, I gave myself some much-needed permission in the form of an imperative: I will read promiscuously. It was such a success that I decided to do it again this summer. (To be fair, I’m a pretty rangy, voracious reader all year-round, a left-over from my early adolescent days of picking up whatever cover
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