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21.05.12

In a Penguin paperback or a beautifully bound first edition – Jay Gatsby would be as suave and Daisy Buchanan as fresh in both. I have kept all of my paperbacks from the days when I first began to learn English at the age of 14, when thrown into a boarding school not speaking a word of it. It took me six attempts at English O-level before I scraped through with a Grade 6 pass. (I remember my English teacher predicting that I would never ever be fluent in English.) And if it weren’t for all the paperbacks I bought, featuring the likes of Biggles and Charlie of the chocolate factory and Hercule Poirot, I might not ever have passed. All those books that I thumbed through laboriously are a reminder of my learning English, a language that I have come to adore. There is something nostalgic about my student days with battered paperbacks – half dropped in water and half curled-up with wine stains. Remember Belloc, who did not distinguish hardbacks from paperbacks: “When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

Source: Financial Times

The Literacy Company Expands their line of Speed Reading Products ...

by tsspeedr

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) August 12, 2009

Scottsdale, Arizona — The Literacy Company announces the release of Speed Reading For Dummies, written by its Founder and CEO, Richard Sutz. Sutz has more than forty years of experience in developing methods to teach enhanced reading skills. This book, a companion guide to The Literacy Company’s Reader’s Edge Speed Reading program, proudly joins the famous and world renowned family of 300 million Dummies books.

In conjunction with The Reader’s Edge, the #1 rated speed reading program, Speed Reading For Dummies is The Literacy Company’s newest tool in its effort to expand the Nation’s reading curriculum to include teaching Read-To-Learn skills. The goal is to change the way people read and the way reading is taught.

Speed Reading For Dummies is a practical, hands-on user-friendly guide that will facilitate more efficient reading of books, newspapers, magazines, e-mails or technical journals. The combined teachings of Speed Reading For Dummies and The Reader’s Edge will greatly assist in learning how to read better and faster with improved comprehension, retention and recall.

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