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Tag Archives: reading
Reading Is Good…
… for your social skills. I doubt my mother would have agreed if you’d asked her right after I’d ignored the increasingly loud requests to come join the family for dinner. But the study seems to mesh with some of … Continue reading
Don’t Judge A Relationship By Its Cover
Wow. People really break up with each other because of books? My husband and I have completely different reading habits. If that had been a dealbreaker, I’d probably be single to this day. :-) I find it’s the differences that … Continue reading
Rubber Ducky, You’re So Fine
Reading in the bath is one of my favourite things to do. And having lived on a boat for 14 years, I’ve got a lot of catching up to do in the bathtub at the cottage. When we were househunting, … Continue reading
Hear, Hear
Someone else who thinks that Steve Jobs is misinformed. I may not be representative of the general population but I read 50 books last year. I think I saw perhaps 1 movie in a theatre. I probably rented 20 or … Continue reading
The State of Book Selling in Canada
An interesting G&M article on the state of the publishing industry. On discounts: Indeed, they’ve been reinforced by the discount gambits practised by Costco, Wal-Mart and Amazon.ca, with the result that “purchases are more informed by price and less by … Continue reading
The Classics
I was never a strong reader of the classics (even though I’m a voracious reader), so I can appreciate where this guy’s coming from.