Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.
What does "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" from The Great Gatsby really mean?
I’ve withheld reading Grimms fairytales to my children thinking they were too scary. My son is scared of mummies and ...
Hi, BookRioters! I’ve been away for a while and I’ve missed each and every one of you. I had the ...
As a general rule, people are slightly embarrassed by who they were as teenagers. For most of us, it was ...
Though I would like you to lend me a book I am not the kind of person you should lend ...
For the purpose of this piece, let us divide the world: there are cat people and dog people, introverts and ...
It’s the kind of place you happened upon, or maybe heard about from a friend. Tucked in an alley, it ...
When you worship in the house of literature, it’s not ancient scrolls, but books, that are your sacred texts. I ...
This past weekend, my Very Special Man Friend went all Jane-Austen-Nicholas-Sparks-Shakespeare-Writing-Sonnets on me, got down on one knee, and asked ...
Every night after I put down my book and turn out the lights, I roll over to look out my ...