365 dias de livros “Young Adult”

O site Epic Reads fez um infográfico incrível com sugestões de livros para cada dia do ano, cada estação ou séries completas para cada semana. No link também há uma lista em texto, para quem preferir.

Vale lembrar que o levantamento foi feito por um site em inglês, portanto pode ser que alguns deles não tenham sido publicados ainda no Brasil. De qualquer maneira, é uma boa referência para quando não se sabe o que ler em seguida. (via)

No momento, estou lendo dois livros: Quarto, de Emma Donoghue (dica da Cintia) e Mandela: meu prisioneiro, meu amigo, de Christo Brand (dica da Rô).

Os dois são interessantes, cada um à sua maneira. O primeiro é viciante, mas a graça está em lê-lo sem saber a sinopse. O segundo é um relato (não muito bem escrito, mas importante) da vida de Nelson Mandela e outros membros do CNA (Congresso Nacional Africano) na prisão, durante a política do Apartheid.

Tenho registrado minhas leituras no Goodreads (principalmente por causa dos desafios anuais). Sigam-me os bons!

“Reading requires — especially today — intense discipline…”

Reading requires — especially today — intense discipline and the capacity to sit still and engage. It’s a skill you can develop, this quieting of the mind. Some books make it easier than others, sure, but the fact remains: A strong reader is a champ at refusing the sweet mutter of distractions. That damn laundry can wait and you know it.

My favorite place to read is in a dark bar mid-day.”

(via A Shot And A Book: How To Read In Bars : NPR)

(via The Librarian by Day Notebook)

Três artigos sobre internet, livros e leitura

Is my dream of a collaborative reading experience merely that, a dream? On the many occasions when I tried to set up a shared Subtext or Readmill reading with a friend, we always ran into endless snags, from an inability to settle on a book we both found appetizing to scheduling and pacing incompatibilities like the ones I had with Liz.

Is reading antisocial? “Another attempt to socially network books has bitten the dust. Maybe readers just want to be alone”.

 

As it happens, I value deep reading – and so, perhaps, do you. And so, quite obviously, do all the youngish people I see everyday on London transport reading 700-page printed books such as the Game of Thrones series, 50 Shades of Grey or the new Donna Tartt. Stuart Jeffries has written persuasively about the popularity of such doorstops, as well as complex modern TV series. This might be a culture not of attention deficit but of “a wealth of attention focused more readily on the things that warrant it”.

The internet isn’t harming our love of ‘deep reading’, it’s cultivating it

 

Maybe it’s time to start thinking of paper and screens another way: not as an old technology and its inevitable replacement, but as different and complementary interfaces, each stimulating particular modes of thinking. Maybe paper is a technology uniquely suited for imbibing novels and essays and complex narratives, just as screens are for browsing and scanning.

Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be … Paper