Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.
"Once, one young child insisted that my daughter was not a superhero. Still, Em remained undeterred. After all, she knew the truth."
A teacher thinks sets about bulking up her classroom library and arrives at a revelation about her personal library and its pristine collection of books.
A reader on discovering the American Girls series based on the dolls, and what those books taught her about history, imagination, and more.
What do you do when you're suffering from heartbreak? Some turn to books, finding ways to heal and inspiration to forge new paths through words.
"Come with me, and you'll be in a world of pure imagination" -- that is, the Scholastic Book Fair. Shiny new paperbacks and all, reminisce with us.
The Goodreads reading challenge may be good for when you need motivation, but it didn’t work out for me. And so, I quit at midyear. Here’s why.
Ling Ma's SEVERANCE is a novel that explores capitalism, millennial anxieties, and workplace politics. Here's how it helped me quit my job.
Struggling with feelings about not rereading nearly as much as she'd like, this reader asked people on social if they’re revisiting books.
A reader goes into the process of moving house, including a large quantity of books and comics, with little to no budget to work with.
How one reader came into the inheritance of a personal library, and on the process of receiving the books and going through them.