The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life by Steve Leveen
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- Pub. Date: April 2005
- Publisher: Levenger Press
- Format: Other Format, 123pp
- ISBN-13: 9781929154173
- ISBN: 1929154178
Synopsis
Do not set out to live a well-read life but rather your well-read life. No one can be well-read using someone else's reading list. Unless a book is good for you, you won't connect with it and gain from it. Just as no one can tell you how to lead your life, no one can tell you what to read for your life.
How do readers find more time to read? In The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life, Steve Leveen offers both inspiration and practical advice for bibliophiles on how to get more books in their life and more life from their books.
His recommendations are disarmingly refreshing, as when he advises when not to read a book and why not to feel guilty if you missed reading all those classics in school. He helps readers reorganize their bookshelves into a Library of Candidates that they actively build and a Living Library of books read with enthusiasm, and he emphasizes the value of creating a Bookography, or annotated list of your reading life. Separate chapters are devoted to the power of audio books and the merits of reading groups.
The author himself admits he came "late to the bookshelf," making this charming little guide all the more convincing.
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July 24, 2005: The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life Steve Leveen Levenger Press, 2005, $17.50 ISBN: 1929154178 Levenger Press CEO Steve Leveen provides a terrific self help book to assist readers with choosing their material, making the most out of the time they set aside to read, and to not feel guilty when one decides to not finish the book. The keys to this guide are Mr. Leveen?s enthusiasm and the practical and easy to follow advice. His suggestions include keeping an updated list of what you want to read and when you can get a copy get it ? don?t wait until you have time to read that book. He also emphasizes be active which include visiting the prime setting and writing notes inside a book in honesty his footprint vs. preserving gave this reviewer cardiac arrest I make notes on stickees (pink for romance red for mystery, blue for sci fi etc.). --- This is a fabulous guidebook aimed more at the wannabe reader to leisurely enjoy oneself by getting inside a book. This is similar to how the Potter crowd reads (my opinion the most influential books outside of the bible in decades as it has brought new blood to literature). Mr. Leveen provides a wonderful guide to fully enjoying books for mostly spectators who want to join the game. --- Harriet Klausner
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