A review by niakantorka
The Rights of the Reader, by Daniel Pennac
4.0
Books about reading can be hit or miss. This one was an entertaining one.
Agreed. The love for reading should be awoken by teachers, parents or other important people in the lives of our kids now and any other generation of children. How that is done - no matter the child’s/teenager’s age - was shown in a very convincing way.
I loved how the love for reading oozed out of this book and think the rights of the reader were reasonable requests (I had already discovered most of them on my own).
To be honest, I got a bit annoyed by all the literate references even though I read some of those books too. But I found it a bit hypocritical to muse about how to evoke the love for reading (btw that should be done by reading out load to everyone who doesn’t like to read by themselves) by citing quite a few must-reads and so-called-classics even though the author tells us not to do it that way.
All in all it was fun to read and those rights (especially those I hadn’t discovered yet) will definitely stick with me.
Agreed. The love for reading should be awoken by teachers, parents or other important people in the lives of our kids now and any other generation of children. How that is done - no matter the child’s/teenager’s age - was shown in a very convincing way.
I loved how the love for reading oozed out of this book and think the rights of the reader were reasonable requests (I had already discovered most of them on my own).
To be honest, I got a bit annoyed by all the literate references even though I read some of those books too. But I found it a bit hypocritical to muse about how to evoke the love for reading (btw that should be done by reading out load to everyone who doesn’t like to read by themselves) by citing quite a few must-reads and so-called-classics even though the author tells us not to do it that way.
All in all it was fun to read and those rights (especially those I hadn’t discovered yet) will definitely stick with me.