#Our Reading Lives

Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.

Reading While Pregnant: How Pregnancy Has Changed My Reading Life

On how one reader's reading life shifted during pregnancy.

What I’m Reading to Get Ready for the School Year

How Reading the Books After Seeing the Movie Changed My Perspective on MARY POPPINS

A fan of the 1964 Mary Poppins film adaptation discusses how his perspective of the character shifted after reading the P.L. Travers books.

Finding, Quoting, and Learning to Love Virginia Woolf

Sometimes it takes me a long while to read a big author, let alone collect quotes from them. Virginia Woolf was one of those authors. She isn't now.

Rainbow Book Spines vs Rainbow Bookshelves

How Audiobooks Improve My Mental Health and My Reading Life

A Bookish Trip Down Memory Lane

A 90s kid turns 28 and takes a bookish trip down memory lane, reflecting on books read at age eight in 1999 and age 18 in 2009.

A Bookworm’s Guide to Finding the Light; or, Why I Read Horror

A reader on the journey toward horror, some favorites found along the way, and how horror became meaningful in today's political climate.

Magical Realism is For Us By Us and Toni Morrison was the Queen

A reader remembers Toni Morrison, how she returned to the late author's work, and how it impacted her outlook on writing and magical realism.

30 Books in 30 Days Challenge

Every September, this reader sets a challenge to read 30 books in 30 Days. Learn more about it and participate in the challenge!