The Gifts of Reading

Posted on 24 April 2018 by Robert Macfarlane

In this luminous essay, Robert Macfarlane reflects on the unique emotional response resonance of books given and received and how such gifts have shaped his own life. Best Download Kindle ePUB The Gifts of Reading Author Robert Macfarlane – kino-fada.fr It s taken me far too long to write a simple review for this short but enjoyable essay It s about the friendships we make through books and how books can transport us It speaks about reading as a gift and there s even a few good recommendations from the author Di...This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift The gift, like so many gifts, was a bookI m baffled at how quotable this tiny little book is I don t usually read essays They re as far from my normal reading tastes as you can get But my friend TS fired straight and couldn t have chosen a better initiationThe act of givin...Very short essay About the value of gifts, especially when it comes to books about walking I did not know Robert Macfarlane, but when I noticed that he was a walking fanatic, I immediately put his other works on my To read list This book just is a charming, short read.A nice read, though low impact Mostly it s given me a fewsuggestions to add to my TBR.This brief essay was printed as a stand alone pamphlet in aid of the Migrant Offshore Aid Station Macfarlane begins by remembering Don, a fellow English teacher he met in China in 2000 who plied him with books by some of the authors who would later serve as models for his own lyrical nature travel writing, including Annie Dillard and Patrick Leigh Fermor Fermor s A Time of Gifts is now one of the five books he gives most often as presents Don s friendship, the love of literature they shared This brief essay was printed as a stand alone pamphlet in aid of the Migrant Offshore Aid Station Macfarlane begins by remembering Don, a fellow English teacher he met in China in 2000 who plied him with books by some of the authors who would later serve as models for his own lyrical nature travel writing, including Annie Dillard and Patrick Leigh Fermor Fermor s A Time of Gifts is now one of the five books he gives most often as presents Don s friendship, the love of liter...Short and sweet, this essay will resonate with book lovers who have made friends through books, and who love to give and receive them It also made me add A Time of Gifts and The Living Mountain into my want to read list.small but lovely gift 3My daughter picked up this short and sweet essay when we visited the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris It s a small booklet that was sold near the cashier, the sort of booklet that you pick up on a whim The beautiful cover artwork caught our eye as well This touching book is s...This book is a little great gift And now I have to go and buy some 20 of these to give out to some great people who love books and gifts, and especially book gifts.This is a beautiful double proposition that art enlarges our repertoire for being, and that it further enables a giving onwards of that enriched utterance, that broadened perception Stunning lil pamphlet, made me feel so much Reading is truly the most giving gift.

24 April 2018

Robert Macfarlane