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abstract:A reading life is not simply an aggregation of singular experiences with particular materials. This article focuses on how the rhythms of a reading life include the time between one book and the next and explores how this interval is differently experienced by different readers. "Flow [or constant] readers" and "event [or intermittent] readers" experience time between books in very different ways. Similarly, readers who prefer a "big world" narrative across many books experience between time differently from those who prefer "stand-alone" titles. The article looks briefly at the kinds of enforced between times that may be enforced by external factors of access, such as the library hold list for popular #BookTok choices. It concludes with a short discussion of potential implications for research and practice.
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Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published once a year. It seeks to promote dialog and discussion among scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies and histories, as well as interpretive strategies related to feminism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial studies, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States.
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