Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.
"Amazing how experiences, personal preferences and expectations all combine to color our readings, isn’t it?"
Since Meg Cabot's THE PRINCESS DIARIES is now old enough to go off to college, here's a story about how the book helped one reader choose a college.
I used to find the work of contemporary poets intimidating and inaccessible. Now it makes up 20% of my reading. Here's how that happened.
Jasmine Guillory and Greg Pak can personally vouch for two childhood classics that have stood the test of time and stand up to a re-read.
Considered starting a book blog, but dismissed it as silly? Here's one reader on how starting a book blog gave her one of the best experiences of her life.
On rereading an old favorite and discovering missed nuances in Elizabeth Marie Pope's YA fantasy novel, THE PERILOUS GARD.
"As the wise Gene Belcher once said: 'First of all: I love it. Second of all: no.'"
A reader considers the children's book classics she grew up with and compares them to classics in other countries, including the U.S.
A teacher offers the second part of her composition class reading list, paying close attention to writing in one of these novels, read cover to cover.
Books didn't make me gay, that isn't a thing books can do. But books can help us realize things, and The Miseducation of Cameron Post helped me realize I was bisexual.