Comments on: Business or Pleasure? http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2008/05/21/business-or-pleasure/ A School Library Journal Blog Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Marc Aronson http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2008/05/21/business-or-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-778 Marc Aronson Wed, 21 May 2008 19:19:12 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2008/05/21/business-or-pleasure/#comment-778 So the differential is the motivation for reading, not the nature of the reading material, right? So the differential is the motivation for reading, not the nature of the reading material, right?

]]> By: GraceAnne Ladyhawk http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2008/05/21/business-or-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-779 GraceAnne Ladyhawk Wed, 21 May 2008 09:43:54 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2008/05/21/business-or-pleasure/#comment-779 I read for a living. I read books I review, books I teach, books I need to read for teaching, books my colleagues tell me I should read. To read for pleasure means I pick up a book that has none of those things attached to it. It is a voluptuous pleasure to read something I am not teaching, reviewing, or studying. The last batch of books so read are Deborah Grabien's Haunted Ballad series of mysteries. I read for a living. I read books I review, books I teach, books I need to read for teaching, books my colleagues tell me I should read.

To read for pleasure means I pick up a book that has none of those things attached to it. It is a voluptuous pleasure to read something I am not teaching, reviewing, or studying.

The last batch of books so read are Deborah Grabien’s Haunted Ballad series of mysteries.

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