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2018-12-28 05:30

Cô Gái Văn Chương Và Tinh Linh Nước Mang Hoa Mặt Trăng - Tập 6 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nomura Mizuki

Readers are “the world's great nomads, if only in our minds,” claims Ms. Quindlen. “In books,” she says, “I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.” While those who do not consider themselves readers sometimes tend to look suspiciously on those of us who prefer the company of a thick paperback - “there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.” - Ms. Quindlen describes the sense of freedom and joy that drives readers back to the printed word over and over again. As a child, she says, “I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.” Ms. Quindlen, so did I. In this slim volume, Ms. Quindlen briefly tracks the history of reading. Starting anciently with the Sumerians' “laundry lists” of livestock and slaves, through Ptolemy I's creation of the great library at Alexandria, she notes Socrates's disdain for books as they could only “remind one of what one already knows.” Please note: even the inestimable Socrates can be mistaken! Then to Gutenberg's press and movable type that opened religion to the masses, which spurred Martin Luther's quest for Reformation, and the Declaration of Independence that “fomented...a new way for men and women to look at their own government.” Indeed, “reading became a democratic act,” of which demagogues, tyrants and zealots are suspicious, even today. Nazis burned books, as did the Inquisition; slaves were often kept illiterate with the threat of losing a finger or two if caught with a book. Oppressive regimes around the globe and across time have banned, confiscated, and destroyed books (and beaten, imprisoned, or killed their owners) when those books presented an alternate view of the world than the one the totalitarian government wished to be presented without divergence or variance. “Ignorance was the preferred condition of the people by despots” and, I might add, still is. There are as many reasons for reading as there are books to read and people to read them. “Reading has as many functions as the human body,” including entertainment, expanding knowledge, decreasing isolation, and providing connection with our fellow travelers on earth. Who is to say only one of those functions is valid to the exclusion of the rest, or even that one is of more importance that the others? Ms. Quindlen's skepticism runs high towards those who insist on a “highbrow” definition of books worth reading and show disdain for what they consider “middlebrow” or “popular” literature, as they try to impose a false separation between “the literati...and the hoi polloi.” Her patience for those who would presume to ban books is likewise practically non-existent. Ms. Quindlen closes her book with a series of various creatively-titled “top ten” lists. 10 Books That Will Help a Teenage Feel More Human. 10 Books Recommended by a Really Good Elementary School Librarian. 10 Modern Novels That Made Me Proud to Be a Writer. After perusing these collections, my already overwhelming list of books I want to read someday grew by leaps and bounds. To sum up, I say in concert with Ms. Quindlen as she quotes Abraham Lincoln: “My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” What good company! For more book reviews, come visit my blog, Build Enough Bookshelves.

Người đọc Rip Oxx từ Angleton, TX, USA

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.