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In this video, you get my five Best Summer Book recommendations. Give TikTok and videos a rest and READ.

POINTS COVERED

• There is no substitute for the vital connection between the ideas of an author and the mind of a reader.
• According to Mortimer Adler, an author is like the pitcher, and he's throwing balls at you the catcher-reader with each sentence, each paragraph, each chapter. To properly engage a pitcher, a catcher can't crouch there passively because he'll either get hit by a fastball -- or a curveball will miss him altogether.

Watch and read the rest here: https://www.patrickcoffin.media/five-books-for-beach-reading/