Post tagged with reading

  • How Should I Read This Novel

    November 05th, 200911:53 AM ET
    By Richard Doster
    I just finished Pat Conroy's new book, South of Broad. When I read Conroy I get so caught up in the language-in the cadence and tempo of it-that I sometimes lose track of story. His style, at least for me, can overwhelm the plot. As a result, I find myself wallowing around in all this glorious construction, content to soak in the beauty of how the ...

  • The Most Social Medium

    September 02nd, 200902:03 PM ET
    By Richard Doster
    Many of us are discouraged by the decline of reading, and what it portends for our society. Novels, poetry, and short stories continually lose ground to lighter fare -- to shallower but more social media, like Facebook and Twitter-where all our friends, real and virtual, can add their own dab to the never-ending conversation. Reading books, on the...

  • Seeking an Enlargement of Our Being

    July 25th, 200907:27 AM ET
    By Richard Doster
    A good friend of mine doesn't read fiction. Why, he asks, would I spend precious time reading about things that aren't true? Why would I get tangled up in a story that never happened? Why, he insists on knowing, should I get emotionally involved in some fictional set of circumstances when my own family's every bit as dysfunctional as Pat Conroy's? ...

  • The Reason We Read

    June 21st, 200908:09 AM ET
    By Richard Doster
    In his book, How to Read and Why, Harold Bloom, the respected literary critic, says that there is no single way to read well, but that there is a prime reason. "Information," Bloom says, is "endlessly available to us..." Then he rhetorically asks, "Where shall we find wisdom?" Bloom unknowingly underscores the urgency of Proverbs 3: "Blessed is th...
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