The love of reading

In a rare version of her essay, Virginia Woolf muses on the complex pleasure and art of being a reader At this late hour of the world's history books are to be found in every room of the house - in the nursery, in the drawing room, in the dining room, in the kitchen. And in some houses they have collected so that they have to be accommodated with a room of their own. Novels, poems, histories, memoirs, valuable books in leather, cheap books in paper - one stops sometimes before them and asks in a transient amazement what is the pleasure I get, or the good I create, from passing my eyes up and down these innumerable lines of print? Reading is a very complex art - the hastiest examination of our sensations as a reader will show us that much. And our duties as readers are many and various. But perhaps it may be said that our first duty to a book is that one should read it for the first time as if one were writing it. more ..... http://adjix.com/s5uk

Do you have a seasonal reading pattern?

As winter settles in, I feel a yearning for a fat Victorian novel. Is your book choice affected by the seasons? http://adjix.com/42w

This week's must-reads

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TEACHING READING

Cherububble site for young readers aged 4-8. The site advocates literacy for young readers and has terrific teacher resources, parent packs, audio books and activity sheets. Excellent for home schoolers and distance ed. students. carlscorner.us.com.au [More on Teaching Reading]

Top 100 Fantasy Books

This website lists the Top 100 Fantasy Books. I find it wonderful that a book published in 1937 is sitting at Number 2 as I write this. G0 and vote for your favourite. http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/fantasy100/lists_books.html

Eyes lock on different letters when reading

YORK (Reuters) - When we read our eyes lock on to different letters in the same word instead of scanning a page smoothly from left to right as previously thought, researchers said on Monday. Using sophisticated eye tracking equipment, the team looked at letters within a word and found that people combined parts of a word that were on average two letters apart, said Simon Liversedge, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Southampton Read on ...