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Michelle Anne Schingler

Michelle Anne Schingler, a former librarian and Hebrew school teacher, is the managing editor at Foreword Reviews. Her days are books, books, books; she knows how lucky that makes her.  Twitter: @mschingler

Déjà Book: Placing Unfair Expectations on Your Reading

What do you do when a book is nothing like you expected?

My Mother-Daughter Book Club Fail

One reader on trying (and failing) to read books with her mother.

Let’s Talk (in Library Code)!

For National Library Week: a guide to incorporating Dewey-based slang into your vernacular.

Who Decided that Noah’s Ark was a Children’s Tale?

Why do we put art about genocide in our nurseries?

If Falling in Love with People Were Like Falling in Love with Books

Readers treat book sales like bar scenes anyway.

You Are Sentenced to a Term of Hard Reading: Meeting Ignorant Actions with Books

On a group of Virginia teens being sentenced to reading after vandalizing a historic school with swastikas.

On Sharing the Bible Nicely

On the novelization of shared Jewish and Christian religious stories.

Why Readers Should Care about the Defunding of the NEA

The National Endowment for the Arts is on the chopping block, and if you're a reader, you should care.

100 Must-Read Works of Jewish Fiction

Excellent works of Jewish fiction from across the world!

100 Must-Read Quests

Excellent fiction and nonfiction about quests and long journeys.