Listen to the essay three times and fill in the blanks. Read for life, all your life. Nothing ever invented provides such ____1______, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. _________2_______________. Let one book lead to another. They nearly always do. Take up a great author and read everything he or she has written. __________________3_____________________________ : Tom Paine's Commom Sense, Harriet Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Read these books you know you _____4________ have read and imagine as dreary. A classic may be defined as a book that stays long in print, and a book stays long in print only because it is exceptional. ______________________________5_________________________________________? And when you read a book you love — the book you feel has ____6______ the experience of being alive, a book that “lights the fire”—then spread the world. To carry a book with you wherever you go is old advice and good advice. John Adams ____7____ his son John Quincy to carry a volume of poetry. “You will never be alone,” he said, “___________8____________.”