#READING

A. J. Vrana 🖤PRE-ORDER THE HOLLOW GODS NOW🖤

AJVrana

Unpopular opinion: we need to stop reading for the vicarious experience of it. Reading for escapism is fun, but you rob yourself of so much when you approach *ALL* books

A'🤍

YourFaveHijaabi

this tweet is what encouraged me to go from reading none of my salaahs to reading all my salaahs. it has been a difficult journey but Alhamdulilah I've made it.

Alex & Books 📚

AlexAndBooks_

School teaches people how to READ, but not how to be READERS.In fact, I’d argue that school traumatizes readers. Here’s why: In school, students get assigned books. Not interested in

Harun Saleh

HarunSSaleh

I am perplexed by so called "traditionalists" who are scared to and scare others from reading books of our tradition on their own time unless it is with a teacher

David Perell

david_perell

Literacy rates may be rising, but people are worse at understanding the Classics than they were 100 years ago There are two kinds of literacy, but we only measure one

Rational Flaneur

flaneur_a

A great #book is one, which makes you say, "WOW!" every now & then. You want to go back to it everytime you're free, even momentarily...elevator, commode, cab, dinner table.

Calling Bullshit

callin_bull

I just read a *great* paper on digital literacy. The authors explore how three different groups—Stanford students, professional academic historians, and fact checkers—evaluate the reliability of online information. https://papers.ssrn.c

mei 🍬

miyaluvbot

i try to support more female artist as much as i can because the lack of female prose and poetry we are taught in literature class is absolutely enraging and

Barry Smith

BarryNSmith79

In MFL reading aloud is invaluable. There’s the performance element, overcoming shyness, linking spoken n written word, recognising how predictable (therefore winnable) language learning is. Stuff we don’t like doing

Readers Curate 🇿🇲 ~ A D M I N

CurateReads

I've come across people who don't consider fiction readers as readers. They think if you pick up a book it must be one that speaks of the real world and

m! NH3

still_niall_

im reading on my phone and im not logged into my other account so pls ignore any and all tweets in this thread thank you why cant i fucking sleep

shanae.

manonilea

cr; the hating game by sally thorne info; romance, contemporary idk if i’m gonna like this because it sounds good but i don’t think i’m that into reading about office

Benjamin Arp

BenArp

Why do I try to read 52 books per year?No, it’s not because of the famous @tailopez YouTube ad.When I was a kid my parents used to read books to

Kate Nash Literary Agency

KNLitAgency

Reading has become more popular in lockdown. But what are people reading?We conducted our own market research here at the Kate Nash Literary Agency to find out.Here is our report.1/12#LockdownReading

Witney Seibold

WitneySeibold

I've read DUNE, and I do rather like the Lynch film. DUNE is frickin' weird. Ambitious, unique, weirdly cerebral, emotionally distant. It's more interested in the mechanics of its world

Howard Anglin

howardanglin

For St Crispin’s Day, a short anatomy of St Crispin’s Day speeches on YouTube. First, the modern classic, Larry Olivier, in full wartime “Sir Lawrence” mode, marred mildly by cutting