{"id":199,"date":"2005-07-25T20:31:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:32:10","slug":"how-to-read-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/how-to-read-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Read a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I described how I mark the books  I am reading.\u00a0 I think my habits formed years ago when I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=mjtate-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0671212095\/qid=1122246590\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846\"><em><span style=\"color: #000066;\">How To Read a Book<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"color: #000066;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mjtate-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/em> by Mortimer Adler and  Charles Van Doren, but I think it&#8217;s time to re-read that classic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=mjtate-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0671212095\/qid=1122246590\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846\"><em><span style=\"color: #000066;\">How To Read a Book<\/span><\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mjtate-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, subtitled &#8220;The Classic Guide to  Intelligent Reading,&#8221; is a must for any serious reader or student.\u00a0 It  describes the four levels of reading: elementary, inspectional,  analytical, and syntopical; teaches how to make a book your own,  classify books, determine an author&#8217;s message, criticize a book fairly,  and agree or disagree with an author; and explains how to approach  different kinds of books: practical, imaginative literature, stories,  plays, and poems, history, science and mathematics, philosophy, and  social science.\u00a0 It explores how reading good books facilitates the  growth of the mind.\u00a0 Includes a recommended reading list, as well as  exercises and tests at the four levels of reading.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get more out of every book you read, I highly  recommend this book.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I described how I mark the books I am reading.\u00a0 I think my habits formed years ago when I read How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren, but I think it&#8217;s time to re-read that classic. How To Read a Book, subtitled &#8220;The Classic Guide to &#8230; <a title=\"How To Read a Book\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/how-to-read-a-book\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How To Read a Book\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}