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A Good Mystery: Why We Read - New York Times Skip to article Try Electronic Edition Log In Register Now Home Page My Times Today's Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Week in Review All NYT Week in Review World U.S. N.Y. / Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Arts Style Travel Jobs Real Estate Autos Page Turner A Good Mystery: Why We Read comments Sign In to E-Mail or Save This Print Reprints By MOTOKO RICH Published: November 25, 2007 PERHAPS the most fantastical story of the year was not �Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,� but �The Uncommon Reader,� a novella by Alan Bennett that imagines the queen of England suddenly becoming a voracious reader late in life. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Noa Vichanski At a time when books appear to be waging a Sisyphean battle against the forces of MySpace, YouTube and �American Idol,� the notion that someone could move so quickly from literary indifference to devouring passion seems, sadly, far-fetched. The problem was underscored last week when the National Endowment for the Arts delivered the sobering news that Americans � particularly teenagers and young adults � are reading less for fun. At the same time, reading scores among those who read less are declining, and employers are proclaiming workers deficient in basic reading comprehension skills. So that�s the bad news. But is all hope gone, or will people still be drawn landscape alpharetta to the literary landscape? And what is it, exactly, that turns someone into a book lover who keeps coming back for more? There is no empirical answer. If there were, more books would sell as well as the �Harry Potter� series or �The Da Vinci Code.� The gestation of a true, committed reader is in some ways a magical process, shaped in part by external forces but also mckee landscape architecture by a spark within the imagination. Having parents who read a lot helps, but is no guarantee. Devoted teachers and landscape water features librarians can also be influential. But despite the proliferation of book groups and literary mac industries landscape nv blogs, reading is ultimately a private act. �Why people read what they read landscape wall block x x is a great unknown and personal thing,� said Sara Nelson, editor in chief of the trade magazine Publishers Weekly. In some cases, asking someone to explain why they read is to invite an elegant rationalization. Junot D�az, the author of �The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,� vividly recalls stumbling into a mobile library shortly after his family emigrated from the Dominican Republic to New Jersey when he was 6 years old. He checked out a Richard Scarry picture book, a collection of 19th-century American wilderness paintings and a bowdlerized version of Arthur Conan Doyle�s �Sign of Four.� So what about those three titles turned him into someone who is crazy for books? �I could create a narrative explaining the creation myth of my reading frenzy,� Mr. D�az said. �But in some ways it�s just provisional. I feel like it�s a mystery what makes us landscape window blinds vulnerable to certain practices and not to others.� Such caveats aside, there are some clues as to what might transform someone into an enduring reader. �The Uncommon Reader� posits the theory that the right book at the right time can ignite a lifelong habit. (For the fictional queen, it�s Nancy Mitford�s �Pursuit of Love.�) This is a romantic ideal that persists among many a bibliophile. �It can be like a drug in a positive way,� said Daniel Goldin, general manager of the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops in Milwaukee. �If you get the book that makes the person fall in love with reading, they want another one.� Most often, that experience occurs in childhood. In �The Child That Books Built,� Francis Spufford, a British journalist and critic, writes of how �the furze of black marks between �The Hobbit� grew lucid, and released a dragon,� turning him into �an addict.� But what makes that one book landscape design -jobs montgomery a trigger for continuous reading? For some, it�s the discovery that a book�s character is like you, or thinks and feels like you. In accepting the National Book Award for young people�s literature for �The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian� earlier this month, Sherman Alexie thanked Ezra Jack Keats, author of �The Snowy Day,� a classic picture book. �It was the first time I looked at a book and saw a brown, black, beige character � a character who resembled me physically and resembled me spiritually, in all his gorgeous loneliness and splendid isolation,� Mr. Alexie, a Spokane Indian who grew up on a reservation, told the audience. In an interview, Mr. Alexie said �The Snowy Day� transformed him from someone who read regularly into a true bookhound. �I really think it�s the age at which you find that book that you really identify with that determines the rest of your reading life,� Mr. Alexie said. �The younger you are when you do that, the more likely you�re going to be a serious reader. It really is about finding yourself in a book.� Of course that doesn�t account for reading for information, enlightenment or practical advice. And for others, it�s not so much identification as the embrace of the Other that draws them into reading. �It�s that excitement of trying to discover that unknown world,� said Azar Nafisi, the author of �Reading Lolita in Tehran,� the best-selling memoir about landscape lighting led a book group she led in Iran. Sometimes the world of reading

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is opened up by a book that goes down easy. Mr. Bennett said he chose �The Pursuit of Love� for his fictional queen because it happened to be the first how to buy landscape material adult novel that he read for pleasure. He said that for him, as with the queen�s character, the book was a stepping off point into more heavyweight literature. �There are all sorts of entrances that you can get into reading by reading what might at first seem trash,� Mr. Bennett said. And certain books that become phenomena � like those in the Harry Potter series or �The Da Vinci Code� or, to a slightly lesser extent most books recommended for Oprah Winfrey�s book club � can, in tempting people to read in the first place, create habitual readers. Perhaps more often, however, those readers just wait for the next �hot� book. Indeed, even after Ms. Winfrey recommends a title, sales of other books by the same author don�t necessarily match those of the book that bears her imprimatur. �What I find with readers today is

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they don�t go off on their own to another book,� said Jonathan Galassi, publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. �They wait for the next recommendation.� It may also be that for some, reading is a pursuit that, like ballet or baseball, simply requires practice. �I think for a lot of people, reading is just something you do,� said Paula Brehm Heeger, president of the Young Adult Library Services Association. �And you eventually realize that you really like it.� Book dana schock landscape architec sales in general are growing only slightly: According to the Book Industry Study Group, a publishing trade association, the number of books sold last year, 3.1 billion, was up just 0.5 percent from a year earlier. The question of whether reading, or reading books in particular, is essential is complicated by the fact that part of what draws people to books can now be found elsewhere � and there is only so much time to consume it all. Readers who want to know they are not alone are finding reflections of themselves in the confessional blogs sprouting across the Internet. And television shows like �The Sopranos� or �Lost� can satisfy the hunger for narrative and richly textured characters in a way that only books could in a previous age. But books have outlived many death knells, and are likely to keep doing so. free printable landscape calendar �I�m much more optimistic than I think most cape coral landscape rules people are,� Mr. D�az said. Reading suffers, he said, because it has to compete unfairly with movies, television shows and electronic gadgets whose marketing budgets far outstrip those of publishers. �Books don�t have billion-dollar publicity behind them,� Mr. D�az said. �Given the fact that landscape lighting company books don�t have that, they�re not doing a bad job.� More Articles in Week in Review » Free trial. Read the complete New York edition of The Times on computer, just as it appears in print. Tips To find reference information about the words used in this article, double-click on any word, phrase or name. A new window will open with a dictionary definition or encyclopedia entry. Past Coverage Once a Booming Market, Educational Software for the PC Takes a Nose Dive (August 22, 2005) CROSS becker landscape WESTCHESTER; Even Treasures Maps Are Going Digital (April 10, landscape for large hills 2005) NEWS WATCH: WEB SITES; An Online Resource Room Introduces a World of Books (and the Authors Who Create Them) (August 19, 2004) IN THE david silver landscape SCHOOLS; We Did Fine, Thanks. We're Being Enriched. (August 1, 2004) Related Searches Reading and Writing Skills Computers and the Internet Books define legal landscape and Literature Writing and Writers More Articles in Week in Review » MOST POPULAR E-Mailed Blogged Searched Bob Herbert: Running While Black Whole Foods Looks for a Fresh Image in Lean Times Your Money: Ditch the Gas Guzzler? Well, Maybe Not Yet 36 Hours in Providence, R.I. Up a Mountain, Olympic Dreams Are Carved Judith Warner: Camp Codependence The Trolls Among Us Don’t Want to Talk About It? Order a Missed Call Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization A Glut of punch master landscape pro One-Bedroom Apartments Go to Complete List � Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, U.S. Officials Say Malwebolence Rising Oil Prices Lift Exxon to Record Profit Can This Planet Be Saved? Shorts Crack the Code McCain Camp Says Obama Plays 'Race Card' Running While Black Judge Rules White House Aides Can Be Subpoenaed Drugs Offer Promise of Fitness Without Effort With Genie Out of Bottle, Obama Is Careful on Race Go to Complete List � july 29, 2008 obama china john edwards india modern love maureen dowd bush brazil earthquake Go to Complete List � nytimes.com/tmagazine Seth Rogen on being a sex symbol Also in university of virginia landscape architecture T Magazine: Will Ferrell on meeting women Anna Faris on love scenes Watch all of this summer's Screen Test videos Inside NYTimes.com World » Books » Opinion » Fashion & Style » Opinion » Art & Design » Tensions Rise for Egypt�s Christians Book Stokes Vampire Fever at Stores� Parties Night Life Reprogrammed Letters: If We Are What We Eat, Let�s Be Kind Getting Down With All That Buzzes or Crawls Home World U.S. N.Y. / Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Arts Style Travel Jobs Real Estate Automobiles Back to Top Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company Privacy Policy Search Corrections RSS First Look Help Contact Us Work for Us Site Map

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