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#Our Reading Lives

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

Our Reading Lives: I Want to Open a Bookstore

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

On Breaking Spines

I have a problem. I think many of you share it. It usually arises after sustained exposure to books and ...

The Last Book that Kept You Up at Night?

What’s the last book that kept you up at night? I’m not talking about the last book that scared you ...

Introducing: The Well-Readheads

Welcome to our new series, The Well-Readheads, in which copper-locked contributors Rebecca Joines Schinsky and Liberty Hardy discuss their love ...

Don’t Save the Drama for Your Mama: Perusing Plays for Pleasure

  I’m a drama queen.  Are you? By that I’m really asking: Do you read plays? Some people feel that ...

A Backpack Full of Socks, Underwear, and Books in South America

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A Christmas Appeal: Books For the Non-Reader?

One of the most chillingly effective music reviews I ever read described Crowded House as a band for people who ...

Christmas In Your Ear

Christmas has it’s rituals, for me chief among them is being read-to. Families once a year do an extraordinary thing ...

Lying in the gutter, looking at the stars: My Year as a People Magazine Subscriber

Do you slum it? I don’t mean do you read Tom Clancy or books written by a guy standing near ...

What’s Your Reading Profile?

It’s that time when folks start to list, chart, graph, rank, and otherwise organize the books they’ve read this year. ...