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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Why we read
    sub title: on bookworms, libraries and just one more page before lights out
  name:
    name part: Reed, Shannon
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 329 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literature can transform us for the better.
  table of contents: Preface: why I read -- To get to go to the library -- How I choose a book: a thirteen-step guide -- Because there was always another page -- To finish a series -- Calmed-down classics of American literature for the anxiety-ridden -- Because we had to -- To break the rules -- Signs you may be a female character in a work of historical fiction -- To learn about (and from) the past -- For love -- Signs you may be a character in a popular childern's book -- To make us cry -- Because I wanted free pizza -- To find the main point -- Because failure is most definitely an option -- But not Shakespeare! -- Signs you may be a character in a Shakespearean play -- To feel less alone -- To see ourselves across time -- Signs you may be an adult character in a YA novel -- To taste -- Questions I use to evaluate a new recipe -- Because someone gave me a book -- For comfort -- To feel superior -- To be shocked -- Town summer festival kickoff declared "success" -- To learn there's more than a single story -- Because it's fun -- To save my life -- To shake up your perspective -- The five people you meet when you work in a bookstore -- Because someone is paying you to teach a class about vampires -- To learn how to die (and how to live) -- Because once more was enough -- To try again -- To motivate us -- To make us cry (II) -- Because we are what we read -- List of books and works mentioned.
  note: Shannon Reed.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Books and reading
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Reed, Shannon
  subject:
    topic: Women teachers
    genre: Biography
  classification: 028/.9
  identifier: 9781335007964
  identifier: 1335007962
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 240129
    record change date: 20250926202401.6
    record identifier: in00004783215
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng