Indians are 'world's biggest bookworms'
Read all about it, boy: Indians are 'world's biggest bookworms'!
Indians by average read 10.7 hours a week. In comparison, Americans read only 5.7 hours a week.
All of you had better start cracking on the books - so that you can take the national average higher. ;-)
Indians by average read 10.7 hours a week. In comparison, Americans read only 5.7 hours a week.
All of you had better start cracking on the books - so that you can take the national average higher. ;-)
posted by George | 4:57 PM
8 Comments:
hmmm... Fellow Americans, perhaps if we all slow down and read at George's speed the American national averages would compete without our having to read more material...
Wow! Great Blog! We share a love of the written word!
Nice try, kid.
(Don't make me cover there and beat you up.)
George! Is that any way to treat a guest!?
Thanks, Mr. Word. Glad you enjoyed the visit. Please feel free to join in the commentary if we cover a book you are reading or have read!
Thanks Kevin! I'll be reading your blog to see what books you cover.
It's great to see people with an active interest in keeping the grand literary tradition alive!
It sounds as if I will have to pick up a copy of Poshlust!
No, mate, the book is not titled Poshlust. It is Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Oh, thank you!
What is "poshlust" ?
It's a good title, that's for sure!
Mr. Word, poshlust or (I have seen this transliteration more frequently) poshlost is a Russian term. We're borrowing it here third hand from Nafisi who in turn picked it up in her Nabokov forays. Its essence is all that is banal and vulgar. Nabokov's definition is in one of the comments to George's original poshlust post. I'm not sure if foreign words count on your web site, but this one is one that would easily adapt to American usage. We certainly have enough instances of it in our culture...
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