Editorial January 22, 1979 Issue

What and how should we read?

Naomi Price

Hardbacks and paperbacks, history and fiction, all kinds of instruction and information. In city bookstores the shelves are packed. In the one year of 1977 about thirty-three thousand new titles were published in the United states alone. It's impossible to read so many books, or even to scan their contents. What can we do to keep abreast of all the fresh ideas that are being launched in such profusion?

How can we know what we should read and what we should not?

Our reading lists will differ according to the requirements of our college courses, vocations, and avocations. Some of what we have to read we may not want to read, and some that we think we want to read we should not waste our time in reading. How can we be rightly guided? In this quandary, as in all others, we can look with confidence to God and His supreme intelligence for aid.

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