Introduction : practicing reading, reading practice / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Reading lessons / Irina Dumitrescu -- I like knowing what is going to happen / Anna Wilson -- Read it out loud / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- From when we read / Jessica Hammer -- De vita lochinis, or commentary on a life of reading / Lochin Brouillard -- How I read / Chris Piuma -- How I read, a history; or "San Francisco Banking Contains No Trans Fats" / Stephanie Bahr -- Text to speech / Alexandra Atiya -- Phantom sounds / Jonathan Hsy -- On not being a voracious reader / Kirsty Schut -- Sleeping under the mountain / Kaitlin Heller -- Reading to forget, reading to remember / Jennifer Jordan -- Best practice tips and strategies for academic reading to maximize your time and productivity / Brantley Bryant -- Afterword : the parlor scene / Kaitlin Heller.