#Our Reading Lives

Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.

Reading While Pregnant: How Pregnancy Has Changed My Reading Life

In March I found out that I was unexpectedly pregnant. Being a mature adult, I pretended it wasn’t happening. Reading during pregnancy has helped me cope.

What I’m Reading to Get Ready for the School Year

What one teacher is reading before the school year launches.

How Reading the Books After Seeing the Movie Changed My Perspective on MARY POPPINS

A fan of the 1964 Mary Poppins movie adaptation discusses how his perspective of the character shifted after reading the P.L. Travers books.

Finding, Quoting, and Learning to Love Virginia Woolf

Sometimes it takes me a long while to read a big author, let alone collect quotes from them. Virginia Woolf was one of those authors. She isn't now.

Rainbow Book Spines vs Rainbow Bookshelves

What to do with the rainbow book spines when you make your shelves a rainbow?

How Audiobooks Improve My Mental Health and My Reading Life

Audiobooks go beyond helping us finish our reading lists. In fact, they also help us improve our mental health conditions.

A Bookish Trip Down Memory Lane

A Bookworm’s Guide to Finding the Light; or, Why I Read Horror

Magical Realism is For Us By Us and Toni Morrison was the Queen

30 Books in 30 Days Challenge