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By: George

George — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hmmm. I don’t have a specific suggestion for a theorist or critic whose work might be helpful to you, but it sounds like the field of cultural studies, rather than (or in addition to) literary studies, might provide some useful ways of thinking about this corpus of works.

And I’m a very slow reader, too, who thinks he used to be much faster. But I sometimes wonder if this isn’t just a factor of having to be conscious of how long it takes to read something now (because of work obligations) versus using reading as an escape from obligation when I was younger.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Academia has made it incredibly hard for me to read for pleasure – it takes me a few weeks to get the knack back. Academic reading is at a different pace, and I worry that going on to my master’s degree will kill my ability to lose myself in a book altogether. (Am reading the new HP; took me 250 pages to lose myself in it. THis may be due to the book, and not me. Laurell K. Hamilton, alarmingly enough, has been my reading-for-pleasure savior.)

By: Planned Obsolescence

Planned Obsolescence — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

On Reading Slowly
This recent post by vika has made me uncomfortably conscious of the slowness with which the pile of books I’d planned on reading this summer is diminishing — or, more accurately, the alarming speed with which it’s growing, as the research reading list…