The Reader's Bill of Rights

At his blog Library Voice, Kiera Parrott recently re-posted Daniel Pennac's Reader's Bill of Rights. So sensible and so liberating:

I love Daniel Pennac’s Reader’s Bill of Rights. In case you haven’t seen it in a while (as if you don’t already keep a copy in your back pocket at all times) here it is:

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes

Comments

[Barbara]

Right on!

[Thomas at My Porch]

I need to print these out and post them in my library. I get too hung up on what I ought to be doing.

[Mary Ronan Drew]

I need to read them more often, too, Thomas. It's ludicrous at my age to need a list from someone I don't even know in order to allow myself to stop reading a book I'm not enjoying. You're half my age - so get started now.