A Letter (With Pictures) to All The Kids Who Hate Reading A Shout-Out With Humor & Hope to Struggling Readers Hey, I hear you, reading can be boring. As a public librarian, I watch kids struggle with it every day. I’m here to tell you that struggle is real! At Read more…
Find Out How Long It Will Take You To Read Almost Any Book Maybe you’re planning your reading material for a flight, or maybe you just want an idea of how long it’ll take to get through your reading list. Whatever the scenario, How Long to Read This tells you Read more…
The Surprising Benefits of Reading Before Bed We’re all commitment phobes. We scan, we skim, we browse, but rarely do we read. Our eyes pingpong back and forth from Facebook posts to open chat boxes, unclicked emails to GIFs of dancing cats, scanning for keywords but barely digesting what we Read more…
Your Kids Can Now Watch Astronauts Reading Stories From Space Reading to kids is wonderful and everything, but reading to kids from space is super awesome If you need to mix up your bedtime story routine a little bit, the Global Space Education Foundation has just the thing for you: Story Time in Read more…
THE BOOKS THAT MATTERED MOST TO DAVID BOWIE, BIBLIOPHILE LITERARY INFLUENCES, FROM NIETZSCHE TO MISHIMA February 12, 2019 By Chris O’Leary David Bowie once recounted a story from the filming of The Man Who Fell to Earth in 1975. Relocating from Los Angeles to New Mexico for the shoot, he brought hundreds upon hundreds of Read more…
Luka, The Picture Book Reading Robot Luka is a little owl shaped robot that reads picture books to your kids. Literally, it reads the book—you place a picture book in front of Luka and it reads the title. You turn the page and it starts reading the words on the Read more…
More than a quarter–26 percent–of American adults admit to not having read even part of a book within the past year. That’s according to statistics coming out of the Pew Research Center. If you’re part of this group, know that science supports the idea that reading is good for you on several levels. Reading fiction can help Read more…
Deception, murder, money, and organized crime—these describe the world that Merle Temple has been involved in for most of his life. The Tupelo native spent his career as a deputy sheriff, as well as an agent and captain with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics during the first of the drug Read more…
Ryan Holiday Bestselling author of ‘Conspiracy,’ ‘Ego is the Enemy’ & ‘The Obstacle Is The Way’ Jan 17 How To Digest Books Above Your “Level” And Increase Your Intelligence To do great things, you have to read to lead. The best advice I’ve ever got about reading came from a secretive movie Read more…
Recommended ‘Shark Week’ Reading What danger lies beneath the ocean waves? Luckily for us readers, this question has consumed both novelists and nonfiction writers alike for ages. So, just in time for the annual Shark Week (the Discovery Channel’s eight days of all things shark-related), we’ve rounded up some great books on Read more…