Read about "How Should One Read a Book?"
Class Discussion Questions:
"How Should One Read a Book?"
- Woolf says that giving or taking "advice" about reading is ill-advised. But then she goes on to make some pretty strong-worded suggestions. Do you think she does want you to read with a particular mindset, or is the whole enterprise really wide open?
- In terms of reading, what does it mean "to become" an author? Can you describe what that experience might be like? Are the words we read in books a channel to the mind of an author?
- What activities are involved in reading even after we have put the book down?
