Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.
On reading slow, short, and selective to transition from reading for quantity into reading to understand, explore, and cherish more.
I am not a person who spends every evening puzzling through Jacques Derrida, no matter how cool I’d think that would make me.
Does anyone actually remember what they've read?! Retaining what I've read is super difficult for me. In our society of shameless binge-culture excess not only applies to TV, eating and drinking, but to reading as well, certainly for me at least.
One reader has decided to remove books by authors who have been accused of sexual misconduct, and replace them with books by women.
We've all had this conversations...with ourselves.
One reader survived new motherhood by joining cloth diapering Facebook groups--and then she found one that produced book-themed cloth diapers!
How one reader changed her habits so she could get up at 5am and become a morning reading person.
The title of my favorite book is not some big secret. But to say to someone, face to face, that they should read that book -- particularly if I know I’ll see this person again -- feels wrong.
As research has shown, children reap so many rewards from having books read to them, but what about the parents? We consider the benefit of reading to your child from a parental angle.
One rioter interviews her mother to understand the difference in their attitudes about reading romance novels. Find out how one mother and one daughter got hooked on romance novels.