A film presents images; a book creates them inside the reade …

A film presents images; a book creates them inside the reade …

A film presents images; a book creates them inside the reader, with the reader’s active participation. Books are good for your brain. Neurologists have found that, when watching television or film, the viewer’s eyes remain idle, straight ahead, but when...
A bran’ new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh …

A bran’ new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh …

A bran’ new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper’s edges, the comfort, like an old...
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal s …

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal s …

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a...

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