Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.
A reader remembers her grandmother's wise and sometimes prophetic rules of reading (which she regarded as commandments, rather than advice).
On the joy of marginalia: finding other readers' scribblings in the margins of previously-owned books.
I've gotten away from classics after graduating from college, so I've made up my own summer reading list for this year.
One reader on the books she's read to help her learn to love living in Toronto.
A reader on wrestling the inner editor and reading critically to identify reading preferences and dislikes. Are you a critical reader?
A reader and librarian on the minimalist bookshelf and approach to book collection, and the benefits of weeding those shelves and avoiding stacks.
Do you flip past the acknowledgements in a book? Here's why one reader started reading them, with some of her favorites.
"I was five minutes away from making her a friendship bracelet and asking her to be roomies."
Rioter Dana is a comics newbie, but she wants to learn more, read more, and even learn to draw them herself. So what did she do? She made a comics syllabus.
A reader who isn't a native English speaker considers the usefulness and importance of a different kind of dictionary. On using ereaders for vocabulary skills.