While it’s not common to have a bookshop near you that contains the perfect combination of sage advice and adventure books (not to mention ladders a la Disney’s Beauty and the Beast), many writers have given us enchanting bookshops within their books. Here are six of our favorite fictional bookshops in literature. Carl Conrad Coreander’s … Read more
Greeting cards are tangible, timeless, and show appreciation. Regardless if the greeting cards arrive early or late (for Christmas, New Year’s Day, St. Valentine’s Day, a birthday, or any other day), they’re an illustrated message that express all of the human emotions, such as serious or humorous affection, goodwill, gratitude, sympathy, or other sentiments. In … Read more
To be completely and perfectly honest with you, Captain Kirk never really struck me as an avid reader. If I had to choose, it would probably have been Captain Picard to be the one to recommend books. However, we shall press on. Now, is this about recommending books to the famous captain of the USS … Read more
If you’re here on this page, you’re most likely a reader of some sort. Whether you read for education or entertainment, you realize there is something to gain from reading. So, it would delight you to know that September 6 is National Read a Book Day! According to a recent study, over 74% of Americans … Read more
If the people can’t come to the bookshop…bring the bookshop to the people. A love story This is such a beautiful, good news story that it’s easy to forget how much blood, sweat, and tears were likely involved. Let’s call it a multi-dimensional love story, starring Akshaya Rautaray and Satabdi Mishra. They connected among books … Read more
I enjoyed Tovah Yavin’s recent blog post “Helping Your Child Get Started – With Books!” so much that I wanted to build on it. Tovah recommends the Berenstain Bear series. I wholeheartedly agree. A friend lent me the entire set, and all my children devoured it. A whole set of books offers a special kind … Read more
Somehow, at the age of 22, I found myself never having read George Orwell’s Animal Farm until a couple weeks ago. I was looking for short audiobooks to catch up on my Goodreads reading challenge when I remembered that it was one of the shortest audiobooks I had saved on my library’s app. All right, … Read more
A Renaissance man, former University of Edinburgh law professor, and instructor of medical law and bio-ethics, prolific Alexander McCall Smith has written over 100 books, completes five or six a year, and is now trying his hand at composing librettos and operas. ‘Talented’ would be an understatement for this brilliant, insightful, one-of-a-kind author and humanitarian, … Read more
