Sometimes, Admiration is the only appropriate response to a book. Case in Point: On Reading Well, by Karen Swallow Prior (Prior’s nom de Twitter is NotoriousKSP, which tells you a lot.) On Reading Well is remarkable for how cleverly structured it is. When you are looking at a Great Painting, you first notice the image, but as you look at it longer, you notice that the brilliance of the painting is not the object which was painted, but the way the author constructed that image. What … [Read more...] about On Living Well