Photo from www.thethinkacademy.com The following article was posted at  International Writers Inspiring Change , which is excerpted from  www.thethinkacademy.com  (including the above image) - an excellent article about  Literacy and Democracy  and what we as authors face as a challenge to restore deep-reading (of books) in order to protect critical-thinking and freedom of thought. Read the article  HERE . Réal Laplaine Author of high-concept thrillers www.reallaplaine.com