Reading Like a Writer

Recommended for all English teachers.

Not the most relaxing read but worth it to appreciate the beauty of language and the weight of every single word in a piece of literature. She includes a reading list (“Books To Read Immediately”), from which I confess I've only read 5%. There are plenty of extracts from literary classics to illustrate what good writing is. And she makes me want to read Chekhov.
A book that merits a second, even a third, reading.

Prose shows us all her favorite passages from a lifetime of good reading. It was a lovely trip and it took me places I would not have thought to go. I especially liked Prose's thoughts on writing, how good writing often breaks the conventional rules of good writing.

Beautifully written with lots of great passages from various works of great literature. Lesson seems to be to read great work, read closely, and that God is in the details. I confess, though, I didn't come away as energized and inspired as I had hoped but some great tidbits.

Well, Prose sure knows how to quote literature and give a quick analysis of it. And that was it. Do writers just read synopsis of books and short passages from them? Did I miss something?