”With the foundation of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous in 1976, reading became the last thing you can never do too often. Even the much-made argument that works of literature – Northanger Abbey, Madame Bovary – insist on the dangers of literature redounds to literature’s benefit, and provides yet another reason for reading.”
Citerat ur ”Living life by the book: why reading isn’t always good for you” av Leo Robson i New Statesman 20 mars 2014.
Robson tar en skeptisk titt på argumenten i fyra nya böcker som predikar läsningens välsignelser: The Unexpected Professor: an Oxford Life in Books (Faber & Faber) av John Carey, Reading and the Reader: The Literary Agenda (OUP) av Philip Davis, Why I Read: the Serious Pleasure of Books (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) av Wendy Lesser samt The Road to Middlemarch: My Life With George Eliot (Granta Books) Rebecca Mead.
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