Reading the Right Book at the Right Time

By Clare Diston I still haven’t read the last book my granddad ever gave me. I have tried on a few occasions, opening it up… Read More »Waiting to Read Venice by Jan Morris

By Yunya Yang I started reading The Catcher in the Rye at Atlanta Airport, waiting on my delayed red-eye flight to Chicago. I’d picked it… Read More »An Uncommon Connection: Reading The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

By Claire Taylor The first book that made me want to be a writer came into my possession by way of a swimming pool. My… Read More »Reading Ordinary People as a Not-So-Ordinary 10-Year-Old

By Michael Colbert I started reading it on the tour bus. Tucked against the curtain, I gave more attention to sleuthing sisters, Antarctica, mother-daughter magician… Read More »Reading The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg in Sicily

By Carolina VonKampen I didn’t finish reading H Is for Hawk. It had been assigned by my professor as the last required book in our… Read More »On (Not) Reading the Wrong Book at the Wrong Time: H Is for Hawk