How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide | 
pick"Novels can do many things. They can instruct, enlighten, confuse, mislead, soothe, excite, indoctrinate, misinform, educate & waste time. Each novel has its own rewards, or frustrations. And, at their highest pitch of achievement, novels can indeed be the one bright book of life."
Published in 2006, Sutherland's book begins with a diatribe. Unlike many books published during this time, he wasn't sounding the death knell of literacy & ?
vivastory the publishing industry due to the digital age. Rather the opening of this book is about the overwhelming amount of titles & how a reader is supposed to choose from amongst them & in the choosing define themselves. Sutherland uses Woolf's, "The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading, is to take no advice" as a guiding principle. He doesn't provide a list to be well-read, instead he writes about a broad range of ? 6y
vivastory book related issues, such as film adaptations, book reviews, literary awards, copyright, marginalia, the importance of a distinctive narrative voice. I checked out a couple of his other books from the library today & I am really looking forward to reading them. 6y
