Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.
This story starts with a kid who loves reading and ends with an adult who has turned this hobby into a minefield of expectations and guilt.
I often recommend books I didn't particularly enjoy reading: recommendations should be about the other person's tastes, not mine.
Remember what there used to be before Apple Maps and Google? One writer recounts the reference books that used to help her live it up.
I've always been curious about readers who start new books by reading the last page first, so I decided to try it myself for a month.
Learn how one reader used 20-sided dice to randomize her book selection and organize her unread books.
By slowly going through my bookshelves, I gave each book the kind of thoughtful attention that leads to delightful surprises.
Most of the time I don’t see myself in the books I read, but one cozy mystery title made me feel seen long after I turned the last page.
Getting your first library card is a very big deal, okay? If you have to stay up all night to practice your signature, so be it.
Teddy Ruxpin was more than a talking bear-that's-not-a-bear. He was my trusted reading companion and I think about him still.
"One thing I can never do is thank him." Why Alan Rickman's journals mean the world to one reader and writer.
