Summary: In an age dominated by digital media, the growing popularity of BookTube and personal library tours suggests that readers (especially younger generations) are reclaiming bookshelves and home libraries as spaces of identity, memory, community, and resistance…
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The Reading Life
A notebook on reading, writing, and the long sentence.
On Rereading: Why Some Books Never Leave Us
Has it ever happened to you that you closed a book and were sad? Not sad because the story ended badly (I personally try not to read this type of book, though there is no way…
Read More: On Rereading: Why Some Books Never Leave Us“My Plan to Finally Read My TBR (Without Giving Up Bookstores)”
I need to stop buying books and start reading from my shelves What can I do? Do you like browsing the shelves of a bookstore, a to-go cup of coffee or tea in hand, in search…
Read More: “My Plan to Finally Read My TBR (Without Giving Up Bookstores)”The 7 Authors I Return to Every Year
Writers Who Continue to Shape My Reading Life There are thousands of books on my shelves. Some I read once and admire. Others I intend to revisit “one day.” And then there are a few—very few—that…
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My Desastrous TBR Part 2: Nonfiction
To watch the corresponding video on YouTube, please, click on the link below: My TBR Part 2: Nonfiction: https://youtu.be/F1d12XxQ8ww After the disastrous pile last week, I went to the arts-and-crafts stores, bought a set of blocks…
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My Desastrous TBR- Fiction
To watch the corresponding videos on YouTube, please click on the links below: Part 1: Fiction: https://youtu.be/5FES66bhrNU In this blog post, I examine one of the most dangerous places in any reader’s life: the TBR shelf…
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