Books of the Future

In “How to Mark a Book”, Mortimer J. Adler delves into the importance of active reading. His purpose is to encourage an audience of readers to not be afraid to write in a book because “…the soul of a book can be separated from its body” (Adler 17). Meaning, a book is more than its physical being and deserves to be cherished for what is written inside of it.

Books have been the main source of obtaining information and discovering a world of knowledge, imagination, and exploration throughout all periods of time.

Books convey one’s life to another, to a point that it is perceived relatable. These pieces of literature pry open the tiniest crevices of your imagination. Technology has recently taken over the book world by storm, so it may seem from the general audience that books are not at its finest era. However, to a book enthusiast

A book is like a door, without stepping through the door, you will never know what's on the other side. It is a mystery that can only be unveiled if you open it and look through it. Dana Gioia wants us to take that mystery and open it up, as many young adults have lost interest in the action of reading itself.

Anytime she reads an innovative book, she wants everybody else to experience the same story she adored. As a result, she is always lending out her books to her friends. Anyone who needs a dystopian or romantic book could probably find it at her house; she is identical to a miniature library. Many people her age despise reading because they think it is just uninteresting, or extra work. Hannah’s acts of sharing her books have turned people from book haters to avid readers.

As a new revolution rears its head due to rapidly evolving technology, many are becoming concerned with the potential problems that e-books could present. Ms. Elliot, a retired librarian, expresses her apprehension and concern for this electronic book form through a speech conducted at the “Reading: the future” forum. Directing her speech to mainly booklovers, she also reaches out to parents whose children will be most affected by the development of e-books.

My friends, family, and to some extent, even strangers, have witnessed my love for books, in the simplest terms I’m a bibliophile. Why do I love books? Well, I subscribe to the belief that books are one of the world’s simplest pleasures. With strokes of a pen, or a succession of keystrokes, imagination comes to life. That is why decided to start my book blogging website - Dani’s Book Nirvana - a blog that is aimed at advocating for the written word, and all that it affords. Books have, in my experience, given me adventure, and have allowed me to experience all walks of life: male, female, young, old, alien, animal, even fantastical beasts. In short, they have allowed me to travel to all parts of the world, solar system, galaxy, and dimensions,

The woman behind of The Bookish Snob website is literally fond with fictions and romances book. Most of her summers, springs, falls and winters were spent curled up with a towering stack of books by her side. And not much has changed in adulthood; she still rather prefers the company of a good or bad character over that of most humans. A contemporary writer and a book addict that suddenly came up to her mind to do such things that will definitely, these book snobber will get back the excitement to their reading habit. The Bookish Snob website wants to focus

Walt Disney World Resort is known worldwide and is a widely popular vacation spot to millions of families every year. Though so many people know about this central Florida destination, very few know just exactly how it came about. In his book, Project Future, Chad Denver Emerson describes in detail the process Disney and his team went through in order to make his dream a reality. From finding the location for the project to finalizing legislations, Emerson recalls the efforts put in by so many and the difficulties they faced while doing so. Through this book, we see just how state and local government were put into use during the development of Project Future.

Throughout our entire lives we are taught structure. Structure that repeats itself. Each night we set our alarms to the same time previous. We awake robotically, work, interact with the same faces, and then return to our homes to trace the process. So where do we rely on our imagination to come from? The vast majority of us cut it out of our cycle and replace it with a television. Some of us, however, still pick up a book. To fantasize about things that don’t actually exist, to escape from reality for just a speck of time. I am of few in this internet-driven society that still read. Which for me involves going to a bookstore to look for a good book. Nowadays there are few bookstore opportunities. Due to Amazon and Kindle making it easier to press a few buttons than to drive somewhere to find it. The only two bookstore chains I know of in the Spokane area are Barns & Noble and Hastings Entertainment. I usually go to Hastings on 29th street, because it’s only about ten blocks from my house. However I have begun to realize that Hastings Entertainment is an inconvenient bookstore for its customers because there is an unreliable computer system, not enough employees to help assist a customer and the store is always re-arranged.

EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to bring us beneath the surface of the page and invite us into the world that lives on.

The Next Decade, a novel by George Friedman, talks about the predictions of countries in the upcoming decade and how the United States should react to the various challenges. The novel’s first major claim is that the United States is actually an empire, similar to how Rome and Great Brian were. However, unlike the previous empires, the United States refuses to acknowledge its status as an empire. “What makes the United States an empire is the number of countries it affects, the intensity of the impact, and the number of people in those countries affected.” The implication of this quote is that the US has gotten to be so large, if the US decided to draw out of global affairs, the impact would be detrimental. Instead of escaping its duty to the world, Friedman claims that the United States must acknowledge its status as an empire and function as such in order to maneuver the next decade. This claim is a wise claim made by Friedman, but it his only claim of worth in the novel. In The Next Decade, Friedman fails to make his thesis credible because he doesn’t his sources, provide logical arguments on his predications of the future, or examine alternative possibilities.

They say the world is a book and those who are not fond of travelling read only a page. Everybody will agree that life without books is really boring, colourless and monotonous. It’s a book that not only can open you a secret world of imagination but also can change your reality into a better one.

“No backpacks inside the store” read the sign outside of the bookstore. I dreadfully took my backpack off and placed it on the floor outside of the bookstore. I had a vision of my bag getting stolen if I left it out there. Unfortunately, there was nothing I could do but have faith. Moreover, I strolled into the store with my list of books and no idea where to look. I was searching the wide array of books while trying to decipher the bookstore language. I asked fellow students for help but no one seemed to know how to navigate this labyrinth. I noticed the shelves were divided into subsections that had a card and name on them. I figured this was the name of the author. Quickly, I searched a couple sections, but I had an uneasy feeling that I

The Next Hundred Years by George Friedman offers insight into his predictions and thoughts of future events based upon cycles in history and deep research into country analytics. The book is organized in a matter where it is chronological and provides information to support all of his arguments and predictions. The first two chapters are critical to the understanding of the whole book as Friedman explains major historical contexts which will later provide the reasoning as to why countries may behave the ways that they do in response to growing events. The book was extremely detailed and provides some keen analysis and interesting ideas in relations to countries that many people currently ignore and how Friedman sees these countries as potential threats to the United States. Friedman also illustrates the idea of countries owning parts of space and using space as a means of military might and force in combination with future technologies. Friedman’s organization of the book slowly guides the reader into his reasoning by clearly showing that history does repeat itself in cycles and creates assertions that are plausible with all of his insights and providing details to show how the United States has truly grown as a major power. The book is broken down into twenty year segments with deep explanations for each of his predictions. The Next Hundreds Years truly provides understanding of the major world affairs in the next century and the rise of the United States to an even greater