Stop what you're doing and read this! / Carmen Callil ... [et al.].

By:

Carmen,Callil [author]

Contributor(s):

Callil, Carmen

Material type: Text

TextCopyright date: 2011Description: 181 pages 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780099565949 (pbk.)
0099565943 (pbk.)

Other title:

Stop what you are doing and read this!

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

028.8 23

LOC classification:

Z1003 .S876 2011

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

Item type:

Books

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	GSU Library Epoch General Stacks	Non-fiction	Z1003CAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		50000002491

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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.

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