Anderson himself said of his early writing that he had, "come to novel writing by novel reading."

But this heightened novel reading seems much more a consequence than a cause of the new feelings of equality and sympathy.

Catherine, in accordance with her novel reading, expects the abbey to be exotic and frightening.

Libraries were open to all, but they were mainly associated with female patronage and novel reading.

The notes had been written in a round, boyish hand and had reflected a mind inflamed by novel reading.

"Did you ever in your novel reading come across the old situation of the disinterested wife falling in love with her own husband?"

Bronx Prep has daily 90-minute blocks of reading and math, plus separate classes in grammar/writing and novel reading, along with science and social studies.

Some philosophers (such as Martha Nussbaum) suggest that novel reading cultivates readers' empathy and leads them to exercise better world citizenship.

A court gave a novel reading to the words of the Constitution, ignored practical experience and overturned Congress's solution to a serious, recurring problem of government.

But novel reading has usually been seen as an intimate experience grounded in personal feeling, the domain of a largely female audience.