Open Your Heart with Reading by Jeannette Cezanne
Open Your Heart with Reading by Jeannette Cezanne
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shows you how you can use a love of stories to open your heart – and your life – in an entirely new way. A U.S. Department of Education study found recently that a large percentage of the USian population is functionally illiterate. This should be cause for alarm, and not only because a lack of proficiency with words limits a person’s prospects: it also limits their dreams. By opening our hearts with reading we can become anyone, do anything, nourish our dreams and visions. From the Introduction:
“Throughout the course of my life, I’ve been an explorer, an actor, a murderer, and a priest. I’ve saved some lives and taken others. I’ve written bestsellers and I’ve been illiterate. I’ve owned chateaux in France and I’ve begged for bread crusts on the streets of London. “In other words, I’ve read books.
“Fanciful? Perhaps. But maybe fancy is a good – even the best! – entry point into the world of reading. In his lively How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster makes, presumably to no one’s surprise, the observation that human beings cannot fly. To which I would add, ah, but we’ve always dreamed of it. Long before we aspired to fly to the clouds, much less to the moon, we aspired to simply fly away.
“Fly away. Leave behind the dreariness and drudgery that often accompanies our day-to-day lives; leave the illnesses that limit our scope and emphasize our weakness; leave the poverty, wars, and cruelty that characterize our species; leave the sure knowledge of our own mortality. Leave it, be somewhere else, be someone else. Fly away.” The foreword is written by Regie Gibson, award-winning poet and National Poetry Slam Individual Champion, who says, “Open Your Heart with Reading is a rallying cry for the necessity of a lifelong intimay with the word (…) Cezanne informs us that all our personal histories are part factual, part mythical, and that it is not the “truth” of the story that is essential, but what the story produces in the reader.”
About the Author: Jeannette Cézanne is a writer and editor who divides her time between Manchester, New Hampshire, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. She has published fiction under a number of different pen names and is president of Customline Wordware, Inc., a company providing business, marketing, and literary writing and editing services to corporate and individual clients. Learn more about Jeannette and her book online.
