The Lost Art of Reading : Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time (Hardcover)

from greeniezona

This book was a random impulse selection at the library. I know, I've been trying not to check out anything but graphic novels as I already have too much to read at home, but this tiny volume was hardly intimidating, and it felt familiar, as if I'd read about it somewhere and intended to read it,...

from mattparfitt

Thought-provoking and engaging. Yet at times it felt a little facile, and surprisingly a little dated -- even though it's only a couple of years old. I have an iPad 2, and its advent seems to have shifted the whole landscape in some significant way, meaning that some of Ulin's misgivings about eb...

from porch_reader

This slim volume was expanded from an essay published in the Los Angeles Times. The essay begins with an exchange between the author and his fifteen-year-old son. As they are discussing an assignment surrounding The Great Gatsby, Ulin's son tells him that literature is dead, suggesting that no on...

from lycomayflower

Ulin's long essay in book form (I'll estimate it's about 40,000 words) makes some good points about reading in the age of Twitter and texting and the pull of near-constant connectedness, and I certainly agree with his claim that what one might call "traditional" reading (that done with a paper bo...

from lindapanzo

I had high hopes for this short little book, not much more than an essay, really, (albeit a chapterless essay), about the place reading has in the current age. I was hoping it'd compare favorably to the recent Pat Conroy book, My Life in Reading. It's not bad but certainly not Conroy-like great. ...