The pleasure of reading

Antonia Fraser describes herself as an ‘addict’ of the written word. In this revealing book, she brings together more than forty leading writers (writing in the English language) of all ages and from backgrounds a diverse as possible, to explain what inspired their interest in books and what keeps them reading. First published in 1992, […]

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The reading promise

Alice’s sister, Kathy, was in fourth grade when she said she no longer wanted her father to read to her. But Alice was different. When Alice was nine years old, she and her father – a school librarian – made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. But once the pair met […]

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