photo: Amy Smith

I spent the day in the library. My own library.
We moved into our house six months ago and it has taken that long to get our bookshelves, have them painted, and install them. Today we unpacked all 47 boxes of books that have been sitting since we arrived. They […]

Last night, as I went to bed I thought, “Tomorrow I will read something inspiring.”
This afternoon I picked up the current issue of Mothering, and found an article about a mother-daughter book club. Reading it, I felt moved and misty eyed.
These six girls and their moms call themselves the Page Turners. They have been meeting […]

In a couple of recent essays, not reading absorbs a literature professor and a men’s magazine writer.
The academic ponders discussing books he hasn’t read to make a point about the canon: there shouldn’t be one. He suggests that trying to meet the standards of high culture makes us inauthentic.
The hack wonders if […]