Stop what you're doing and read this! /

Carmen,Callil.

Stop what you're doing and read this! / Stop what you are doing and read this! Carmen Callil ... [et al.]. - London : Vintage Books, 2011. - 181 pages 20 cm.

Library Life'/ Zadie Smith -- Twelve Thoughts About Reading / Blake Morrison -- True Daemons / Carmen Callil -- Mindful Reading / Tim Parks -- The Right Words in the Right Order / Mark Haddon -- Memories and Expectations / Michael Rosen -- The Reading Revolution / Jane Davis -- A Bed. A Book. A Mountain / Jeanette Winterson -- The Dreams of Readers / Nicholas Carr.

The ten essays in this book tell us about the experience of reading, why access to books should never be taken forgranted, how reading transforms our brains, and how literature can save lives. In any 24 hours there are so many demands on your time and attention - books should be one of them.

9780099565949 (pbk.) 0099565943 (pbk.)

2012464799

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015873817 Uk


Books and reading.
Reading.

Z1003 / .S876 2011

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