Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.
Growing up, I loved reading Sunday comic strips but was an adult before I read Calvin and Hobbes. The child I was didn't seem to care.
I can't deny that Latin American horror books hit very close to home. There is a certain kind of terror in the everyday terrors they depict.
One reader reflects on the books she's reread, wondering what made them so appealing in the first place.
I don’t believe I “knew” I was gay until I was a teenager. I didn’t have the language. Except maybe I did, by way of Frog and Toad.
On learning to appreciate the complexity of London as a newcomer through urban fantasy and history books.
The appeal of books about books goes beyond the obvious love for literature. One writer explores what how meaningful they can really be.
Getting advanced copies of books and audiobooks as a book reviewer is the dream for many readers, but it does have a few downsides.
One reader on learning how to love books, even after a childhood and adolescence of avoiding them.
There is just something so comforting about sinking back into a familiar world, but do books read in years past hold up is the question.
My brother asked me to read to him in his final days like back when we were kids. I hope It was a comfort to him like it was for me.
