Reading with Jimmy

www.readingwithjimmy.com

The website that brings the classics to life by READING them with you!

The Problem: Understanding versus appreciation
• There’s a big difference between understanding and appreciation.
• You can understand something and not appreciate it, but you can never appreciate anything without understanding it.
• “The more you look, the more you see. The more you see, the better you know where to look.”
• This website was created to help you appreciate literature, which is language charged with meaning as Ezra Pound said.

Our Plan
• Jimmy will read only classics – to find out how other people lead their lives in order how to lead our own.
• Each novel or story will be read entirely. Then, it will be analyzed.
• The analysis of literature is how you develop appreciation, not just understanding.
• The joy of language is that it should be read aloud.
• So welcome! Explore… and email your comments and questions to jimmy@readingwithjimmy.com.