Poetry is the response to the everydayness of life. It’s the hush between the dishes clattering, the ache between two jobs, the moment your heart does something strange, and language tries to catch up. But poems don’t always find their…
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As you become immersed in a great book, the mundane room you’re in disappears. Consider the titles that pop up everywhere—classes, cafes, hotel nightstands—even among non-readers’ shelves. These best selling books of all time, literally, journey far beyond initial print…
Have you ever finished a book and just sat there, staring into space, not sure what to do because something in you feels… broken? Like you’ll never quite look at the world the same way again? Yeah. That’s the territory…
There are seasons when even waking up feels like pulling yourself through fog. You move through the days trying to smile, but inside, you feel uneasy. In those hours of aching quietly, you might find yourself reaching for books to…
English is a language that has never learned how to sit still. It picks up words like souvenirs: from Latin, French, Dutch, and whoever else it’s bumped into on its way home. It stumbles through sentences, changes shape mid-thought, and…
With reading, it’s impossible to have read without having tasted tragic literary deaths, or experiencing some of the saddest deaths in fiction novels. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Of all the ways to lose someone, death is the kindest” is acceptable, irrefutably…
You remember what it felt like to fall into a book and not surface for hours. Books to get back into reading bring that feeling back. The kind of stories that draw you in from the first line and make…
You know that moment when you see a book title and think, “Wait, what did I just read?” That’s the magic of books with weird titles; they grab you by surprise and refuse to let go. If you’ve ever scrolled…