right-reading – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:38:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 How to Read a Novel /College/translation/threepercent/2007/08/22/how-to-read-a-novel/ /College/translation/threepercent/2007/08/22/how-to-read-a-novel/#respond Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:29:40 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2007/08/22/how-to-read-a-novel/ To cleanse our palates of the last, oh-so-expected-but-depressing post, let’s turn our eyes to something that pointed out to us, a of four recent books that want to help us become better readers.

As Zaid puts it: “What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.”

There, there. Isn’t that much better?

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