Read With Me 9+

The All-in-1 Online Book Club

Joseph Tabenkin

Designed for iPad

    • 5.0 • 2 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

My name is Lisa VanDamme and I am the founder of VanDamme Academy, a small private school in Southern California with big ambitions to provide students with an exceptional education and a joyful learning experience.

The single, animating element of my career – the one that provides me with an endlessly replenishing daily dose of endorphins – is teaching literature. I am not a literary scholar. I cannot classify works by “school” or “movement,” I cannot describe how they reflect the historical period in which they were written, I don’t know how to inventory their various literary devices. And I don’t care to.

If I have a unique talent as a teacher of literature, it boils down to this: I am passionate about great books. Hugo wrenches my heart and makes me weep tears of anguish and of wonderment. Rostand stirs me to noble ambition in work and love and life. Tolstoy challenges me to think – and to feel – on planes higher than I had ever known. Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Jane Austen, Maupassant, Rattigan, Sinclair Lewis – all have helped me to see, in the words of English professor Mark Edmundson, “that life is bigger, sweeter, more tragic and intense—more alive with meaning than I had thought.” I derive profound personal joy from literature, and I have a knack for helping others do the same.

That is why I started Read With Me. I know so many people – thoughtful, intelligent, motivated people – who avoid reading the classics. And for understandable reasons: they’re busy, they don’t know what to read, they’ve never been taught how to enjoy it, they have unpleasant memories of tedious discussions in high school English…

If you are intimidated, uninitiated, jaded, disillusioned or just plain busy – read with me. Let me show you what reading can be.

We use Apple's standard terms of use: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula

What’s New

Version 6.0.11

A few minor bug fixes and aesthetic improvements with the most recent release.

Ratings and Reviews

5.0 out of 5
2 Ratings

2 Ratings

InfinityEve ,

A wonderful little book club!

I probably would never have read any Russian literature were it not for this app. All those Russian names! I am so glad someone is pronouncing them for me so I can really get into the story. Sure the reader is no professional actress but that makes the reading more real and makes me feel more a part of the ‘club’. I’m not interested in facebook and it is not necessary with this app. The reader goes through her FB posts after her commentary (which is wonderful!) and I am understanding Crime and Punishment in a way that I could never have if it I read it myself. I look forward to reading all the other books in this app with Lisa :)

App Privacy

The developer, Joseph Tabenkin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Financial Info
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  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

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