Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

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The author and educator Shannon Reed has her own unique writing style, comfortable and down to earth, as she relates her reading history in these memoir styled chapters. Being hard of hearing, reading became her escape to a communicating world. Like many of us, she thrived using the books from the public libraries and continues to accumulate additional volumes from bookstores.

She describes her years teaching at the preschool level, to secondary school teens, and currently to college students and the various texts she used with the different groups. An array of stories and authors are reviewed, from Old McDonald, to the Brontes, The Diary of Anne Frank, Gone Girl, Atkinson, Lincoln in the Bardo, The Lottery and so many more, stories both familiar and some new to this reader. Most of the readings are fiction, except for the non-fiction cookbooks and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal. The reading is slow at the beginning but perks up as she outlines the selections she introduces to her students. While the author readily reflects on the various tomes, it would have helped to learn more of the students’ comments and responses to the readings. There are pages listing the literary works mentioned in this volume, which should serve as a handy reading guide.


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Author Shannon Reed
Star Count 4/5
Format Hard
Page Count 336 pages
Publisher Hanover Square Press
Publish Date 06-Feb-2024
ISBN 9781335007964
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Issue May 2024
Category Humor-Nonfiction
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The author and educator Shannon Reed has her own unique writing style, comfortable and down to earth, as she relates her reading history in these memoir styled chapters. Being hard of hearing, reading became her escape to a communicating world. Like many of us, she thrived using the books from the public libraries and continues to accumulate additional volumes from bookstores.

She describes her years teaching at the preschool level, to secondary school teens, and currently to college students and the various texts she used with the different groups. An array of stories and authors are reviewed, from Old McDonald, to the Brontes, The Diary of Anne Frank, Gone Girl, Atkinson, Lincoln in the Bardo, The Lottery and so many more, stories both familiar and some new to this reader. Most of the readings are fiction, except for the non-fiction cookbooks and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal. The reading is slow at the beginning but perks up as she outlines the selections she introduces to her students. While the author readily reflects on the various tomes, it would have helped to learn more of the students’ comments and responses to the readings. There are pages listing the literary works mentioned in this volume, which should serve as a handy reading guide.

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Author Shannon Reed
Star Count 4/5
Format Hard
Page Count 336 pages
Publish Date Hanover Square Press
ISBN 9781335007964
Amazon Buy this Book
Issue May 2024
Category Humor-Nonfiction
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