How to Read a Book
by Andrew Naselli
I read this book on how to read a book and I’ll be rereading it immediately. I’ll be assigning others to read this book on book reading. I was still reading it when I knew it was necessary to get others to read it.
I have never read Mortimer Adler’s book by the same name, though I have thought about it. I’d even say I wanted to, but apparently not strongly enough. Naselli’s book is shorter, it references Adler’s work and some of Adler’s categories, and it connects to at least a hundred more things I care about.
Reading this book made me want to read more, more better, more broadly, more deeply. Reading this book made me more thankful for words and books and audiobooks and technology and the Kindle system and classical education. Reading this book should help a reader be more relaxed, more at liberty, and more attentive–at least selectively. So it makes readers who are less frustrated, less guilty, and less sloppy.
Again, highly recommended, for probably junior high and up, for book amateurs and accomplished bookies, for preferrers of fiction and non-fiction.
It’s even got a great book trailer here:
Imagine the well read man . . . link image
Canon Press (@canonpress), April 18, 2024