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The Baltimore City Paper recently published this great article that reminds us to rethink what we read and what we read when we were kids and how those books may have changed our lives. Think about what you read when you were 12. How did you choose it? Why did you choose it? And did [...]
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You’ve heard of cathartic pastimes like retail therapy and comfort eating, but do you engage in comfort reading? This Bohemian Bookworm sure does.
Whether post-breakup, bewildered by difficult work, or simply bored out of my mind, I will consistently binge on a huge bookalicious Amazon list, printed hot off the press, trot down [...]
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Novice worms judge books by their covers, but seasoned book-readers often give a prospective tome what’s known as the First Page Test. As the name suggests, a quick scan of the book’s opening prose determines whether it goes in the back or back on the shelf. No wonder novelists agonize over their first page [...]
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Courtesy of Candida Hofer, via Kirsty, these pictures were just too stunning not too share. They aren’t even libraries. They are literary cathedrals! Celebrate the glory of the story as you gaze below.
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