Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.
One Rioter concludes that every picture book is existential if you re-read it enough times. Research method: overanalyzing children's books like CLIFFORD'S FAMILY with the three-year-old she babysits weekly.
My students love reading. As a teacher, it is one of the few things that I take pride in having helped to develop. They devour novels as if starved for intellectual stimulation, which I suppose they are. This is about falling in love with the novel.
"Everyone listened, and made space for me, as I listened and made space for them."
So many lofty dreams and high hopes for these books. But none of them went quite as planned. This letter is for those books left abandoned, unhauled, or given away.
Dana was trying and trying and trying to get pregnant, and her one escape - books - just made things worse. So she shook out of her rut, found new genres, and new stories to help her through the process.
Knowing what the ending of a book is allows you to pay attention to how the author gets you there, and more reasons it's ok to skip to the last chapter.
Certain books demand to be read with zero rush. Let's talk about reading slowly.
In this interview, Will Schwalbe discusses the podcast But That's Another Story about how books impact lives.
Behind many avid readers are bookish moms, so for this Mother's Day, we're celebrating all the bookish moms out there with pictures and stories of Book Riot's own bookish moms. Thanks to all the reading mothers out there!
"Knowing that other people worked hard at making art and were then vulnerable by asking other people to read it makes me feel less alone."
On reading feminist texts in a class, and not finding what you're looking for.
One reader (and writer and artist)'s experience as a webcomic creator who never realized the success she wanted.
"Although I knew she was just a comics character and not real, something about Jessica Drew broke through the pages and gave me comfort."
Reading (or working) in cafes has become a habit for most. Why not change it up? Next time you're heading out for an afternoon of reading take a look at this list of recommended public places to read that are a little more unexpected and a lot more fun.
It's not you, it's me... On having trouble getting through a book, and how life and finals and weather get in the way of reading.
