{"id":4904,"date":"2019-07-02T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2019-07-01T18:57:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T00:57:46","slug":"how-to-read-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4904","title":{"rendered":"How to Read a Book<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI’ve a review over at BookPage<\/em> of Kwame Alexander’s<\/a><\/strong> How to Read a Book<\/em> (Harper, June 2019), illustrated by Melissa Sweet<\/a><\/strong>. That review is here<\/a><\/strong>, and today at 7-Imp I’ve some art from the book. Melissa also shares some process images, for which I thank her. <\/p>\n

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“Surprise! It’s a book party …”<\/em>
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“Squeeze every morsel of each plump line
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“Now, sleep. Dream. Hope. (You never reach) …”<\/em>
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HOW TO READ A BOOK. Text copyright \u00a9 2019 by Kwame Alexander. Illustrations \u00a9 2019 by Melissa Sweet and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York. All other images reproduced by permission of Melissa Sweet.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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