A beautiful celebratory tribute to the powers of one of our most undervalued skills
- an ideal gift for the avid reader ' What you are doing right now is cosmically speaking against the odds' As young children we are taught to read but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is this turning of scratches & dots into understanding unease & inspiration Perhaps we need to stop & remember stop & learn again how to read better Damon Young shows us how to do exactly this walking alongside some of the greatest readers who light a path for us
- Borges Plato Woolf Young reads passionately selectively surprisingly
- from superhero noir to speculative realism from Heidegger to Heinlein
- & shows his reader how cultivating their inner critic can expand their own lives as well as the lives of those on the pages of the books they love