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Author | : Patricia Meyer Spacks |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2013-11-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674267478 |
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After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why do we reread novels when, in many instances, we can remember the plot? Why, for example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s fiction reread her novels every year (or oftener)? Why do young children love to hear the same story read aloud every night at bedtime? And why, as adults, do we return to childhood favorites such as The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Harry Potter novels? What pleasures does rereading bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.
Author | : Various |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2019-11-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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"Stories Worth Rereading" by various is a collection of tales aimed at young readers. The volume contains: Their Word Of Honor, Muriel's Bright Idea, The Strength Of Clinton, The Doctor's Cow, Honey At The Phone, An Example, Fighting The Good Fight, Tightening The Saddle-girth, "Herrings For Nothing", The Power Of Song, Jack's Fidelity, Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother, The Sleigh-ride, Samuel Smiles, The Author Of "Self-help", David Livingstone, and many others.
Author | : Ellen Raskin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2011-01-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101486058 |
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From the Newbery Award-winning author of THE WESTING GAME, more clever riddles and wordplay, clues to be found, and mysteries to be solved! Glub! Blub! Mrs. Caroline "Little Dumpling" Carillon isn't quite sure what to expect when she sets off to meet her husband, Leon. After all, she hasn't seen him since their wedding when she was five and he was seven. But their reunion is cut short when a storm knocks him off their boat, and he disappears completely, leaving only one very waterlogged clue (Glub! Blub!). Will Dumpling be able to find Leon (or is it Noel) again? And just what is a glub blub?
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Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : Bob Suren |
Publisher | : Microcosm Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-05-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1621061949 |
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A small town Florida teenager discovers punk rock through a loaned mix tape and punk music and culture slowly takes over all aspects of his life. His new passion causes him to form a band, track down out-of-print records that he loves and begin to reissue them, open a record store, begin a record distribution operation as a public service, mentor a host of young musicians, and befriend all manner of punk luminaries along the way. Slowly, his life’s pursuit pushes him to the point of personal ruination and ultimately redemption.
Author | : Varios Artistas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2009-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781409967705 |
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A collection of 72 stories for children, first published in 1913. "All persons like stories. Children call for them from their earliest years. The purpose of this book is to provide children and youth with stories worth reading; stories relating incidents of history, missionary effort, and home and school experiences. These stories will inspire, instruct, and entertain the readers. Nearly all of these have appeared in print before, and are reprinted in this form through the courteous permission of their writers and publishers."
Author | : Jo Walton |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1466844094 |
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As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com. Now this volumes presents a selection of the best of them, ranging from short essays to long reassessments of some of the field's most ambitious series. Among Walton's many subjects here are the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by "mainstream"; the underappreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field's many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read. Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is an immensely readable, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Grace S. Richmond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781647991784 |
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Author | : A B Publishing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1992-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781881545019 |
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Here are 72 touching stories of inspiration originally compiled by Review & Herald in 1910 to provide children and youth with worthwhile reading. This is excellent family reading and a treasure house for pastors and teachers who tell children's stories.
Author | : M. Suddain |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2016-07-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448130913 |
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John Tamberlain is The Tomahawk, the universe’s most feared food critic – though he himself prefers the term ‘forensic gastronomer’. He’s on a quest, in search of the much-storied Hotel Grand Skies, a secretive and exclusive haven where the rich and famous retreat to bask in perfect seclusion. A place where the waiters know their fish knife from their butter knife, their carotid from their subclavian artery, and are trained to enforce the house rules with brutal efficiency. Blurring the lines between detective story, horror and sci-fi, Hunters & Collectors is a mesmeric trip into the singular imagination of M. Suddain – a freewheeling talent whose poise, invention and sensational sentences have already earned him comparisons to Vonnegut, Pynchon and Douglas Adams.