{"id":283,"date":"2011-06-02T21:12:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T01:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?page_id=283"},"modified":"2022-10-31T12:41:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T16:41:50","slug":"about-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/about-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"About Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">The Monster Librarian Presents:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">About Reading<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">Reading <\/span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">is done for one of two general purposes:\u00a0\u00a0information and pleasure.\u00a0 If you are reading horror fiction, it should be for pleasure, as it gives you a chance to escape into a story that should give you goose bumps and raise the hairs on the back of your neck.\u00a0\u00a0 If you are reading horror fiction for information then it might be time to seek some professional help for your tenuous grip on reality.\u00a0\u00a0 My philosophy on reading is that not every book is everyone&#8217;s cup of tea. If after the first few chapters of the book you aren&#8217;t interested in the story then it might be time to put the book down and find another.\u00a0 You shouldn&#8217;t feel guilty about putting a book down or not finishing it.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t matter if that book is on the New York Times bestsellers list or if everyone you know raves about it and thinks it is the best thing on the planet.\u00a0 Your taste in reading is personal.\u00a0 If the book you have isn&#8217;t interesting then put it down and find one that is.\u00a0 People who stop reading often do so in their school years because they are made to read through books of little or no interest over which they are then tested.\u00a0 The end result is that reading becomes a chore and something to avoid. Don&#8217;t let school push you away from reading a book in which you might be interested. I hope you will find one on the lists of reviews on the site. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;Dylan Kowalewski, 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">The Genre Readers Bill of Rights<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right never to apologize for your reading tastes. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to read anything you want. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to read anywhere you want&#8230; in the bathtub, in the car, in the grocery store, under the porch, or while walking the dog. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to read in bed. Under the covers. With a flashlight. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to carry books in your baggage at all times. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to read in exotic settings. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to move your lips when you read. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to read the good parts out loud to your nearest and dearest. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to refuse to read the good parts out loud to your nearest and dearest. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to read and eat at the same time. (This right, however, does not include the right to use food as a bookmark when you are reading library books. Even if it&#8217;s the very best potato salad.) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to read and make love at the same time. (But&#8211; depending on local ordinances and regulations&#8211; you may or may not have the right to ask your librarian for suggested books.) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to read as many books as you want at the same time. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to throw any book on the floor and jump up and down on it (provided that you paid for it first). <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to ignore the critics at the <em>New York Review of Books<\/em>. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">More importantly, you have the right to ignore the critics in your immediate family. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to stop reading a book whenever you decide it&#8217;s not worth the effort, or that you simply don&#8217;t like it. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to refuse to read any book anyone else picks out for you. Even if it&#8217;s a birthday present. (This is associated with your right to refuse to wear any necktie or perfume you receive as a gift.) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to skip all the boring parts. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to read the last chapter first. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to read the last chapter first and then put the book back on the shelf. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You have the right to refuse to read any book where you don&#8217;t like the picture of the author. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">FINALLY, the Genre Reader&#8217;s Miranda Right:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">If you do not have a genre book of your own, a genre book will be provided for you by your public library.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The Genre Reader&#8217;s Bill of Rights has been credited to being developed on a listserv by various authors(if anyone has more details about the specific authors please let me know.)\u00a0 I don\u2019t know exactly where the Genre Reader\u2019s Bill of Rights originated. I know a version of the Bill was posted on LM_Net in 10\/01\/98 and that it contains some elements from Daniel Pennac\u2019s Reader&#8217;s Bill of Rights, which appeared in<em> Better Than Life: Books<\/em>. I know it has been around since at least 1995. I came across it during one of many web wanderings and thought it was fantastic and as the horror genre often doesn\u2019t get much respect in many circles that it was particularly applicable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monster Librarian Presents: About Reading &nbsp; Reading is done for one of two general purposes:\u00a0\u00a0information and pleasure.\u00a0 If you are reading horror fiction, it should be for pleasure, as it gives you a chance to escape into a story that should give you goose bumps and raise the hairs on the back of your<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/about-reading\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-283","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}