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The Need to Read

2009-10-13T06:26:00.000-07:00

This article (sent by a loyal follower of the Feltre School blog) provoked what I think are some great questions: Why do you like to read? How often do you read? What do you like to read?

These seem like simple questions, but to me they are interesting because I believe I did not come to truly enjoy reading until later than most people (my mid to late twenties maybe), and I find that the older I get the more I enjoy it, love it. I came to it later because for so many of our formative years we are being told what we have to read and I didn't like much of it. It seems to me that once I was liberated from being told what I had to read, I started to read what interested me and started to see reading as more of an adventure of my own making.

While I do not read a book a day, I probably read at least one book per week. It's hard to tell because, like many of you I suppose, I am usually reading more than one book at a time. I like fiction, but also find I need a fair amount of non-fiction, especially biography. I read every day, in the morning and in the evening.

The Feltre Book Discussions tend to focus on classic or at least very well-known texts, and so I try to read whatever the monthly title may be, just to be sure I am maintaining a nod to my early teachers regarding what I "should" read. They weren't wrong, plus now I find myself often saying to friends "You know, you SHOULD really read..."

So, what about you? What does reading mean to you?

Is it VOOK?!!!!

2009-10-02T08:51:00.000-07:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01book.html?_r=1&hpw

Feltre 2009-2010 Book Discussions

2009-07-24T07:46:00.000-07:00

September 14, Dorothy Sayers, The Nine Tailors
October 12, Thornton Wilder, Heaven's My Destination
November 9, Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
January 11, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
February 8, Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
March 8, Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
April 12, Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
May 10, J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbitt
June 14, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
July 12, Nevil Shute, On the Beach

The Case of the Disappearing Liberal Arts College...

2009-07-21T08:12:00.000-07:00

...For generations, small liberal arts colleges have demonstrated their educational value. They produce scientists and scholars at a higher per capita rate than other types of postsecondary institutions. Furthermore, many leaders in business, politics, education, and other fields received their education at liberal arts colleges...