Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.
For the better part of twenty years, I carried Lewis Nordan around with me like a beautiful, restless agony. Though ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was required reading for high school freshman English. When I read it then, “A” was ...
Spring has me in the mood to clean out closets of both the storage and psychic varieties. Here are seven ...
There are books that have defined moments in my life, books which have carved out pieces of my heart and ...
Sci-fi about dragons is an escapist dorktasm.
This is a guest post from reader Michael Strand. He lives in Morris, Minnesota. ____________________________ I picked up John Green’s ...
Since my fellow Rioteer Bethanne Patrick and I sat on a panel about readers and social media at last week’s ...
During the last presidential election, a friend vented to me about her feeling that her mother was too impressionable. “It’s ...
The famous novels that are supposed to be good, but not for me.
The death of Regina Morrow in Sweet Valley High #40 On the Edge influenced my life more than any other ...
