"If a well-read citizenry is essential to a vibrant democracy, the decline of literary reading calls for serious action." Is the situation really so dire? Blame it on the Internet ... right? Five percent of respondents to a Gallup poll claim to have read 70 or more books during the past year. But the poll makes no distinction regarding the quality of the books read. Serious reading had always been a minority matter." Are you one of the five percent? Are you doing Serious Reading? The Lost Art of Reading | 
