For the third marking period, I will be reading Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read. It is split into three sections: "Ways of Not Reading," "Literary Confrontations," and "Ways of Behaving." From there, it is divided even further into chapters such as "Books You Don't Know" and "Books You Have Skimmed."
The book promises to provide very thorough instructions for how to get the most out of books without actually reading them. I want this only for personal (and certainly not academic) reasons; there are far too many books that I would hypothetically like to read, but can't seem to make myself pick up due to old language or sheer length.
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