Six Walks in the Fictional Woods – 5/5 Stars One of the most exciting things to feel, for me at least, is when reading becomes not just an act of enjoying and engaging with a story or ideas, but an active hunt for meaning and understanding. I am a big proponent of doing the reading you want to do and mostly letting other people do the reading they want to do. Eco describes early in this collection of six lectures on reading (and specifically on […]
Readings about Reading
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas Foster
Twenty Five Books that Shaped America by Thomas Foster
How to Read Noves like a Professor by Thomas Foster
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
