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Your Mission to Read, If You Choose to Accept

April 25, 2011
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With everything we have available to read, I’m amazed that we can have conversations with each other about books and articles. I can see someone reading a book on the subway and recognize it. Authors can fill large lecture halls with people who have read their books. A hundred years from now, maybe no one will be talking about these authors.

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Will You Read Me a Story?

January 12, 2011
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When I was a child, my mom used to take me to Story Hour at our local library. At Story Hour, one of the librarians would read one book out loud, slowly and deliberately. She would complete one page then open the book toward us so that we could see the illustrations. She had a great reading voice – pausing and creating inflection where appropriate.

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On Rereading Books

January 3, 2011
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If you can remember liking a book that you read before you really started to mature, I highly recommend that you give it another read. You may enjoy it even more, or you may, in fact, hate it. But the book you once liked can serve as a measuring stick for how much you’ve grown and changed. It can also show you how much you’ve remained the same.

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Blasting Blowhards of the Book

November 22, 2010
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Creative writing is often considered an elitist pursuit, mostly because the people who practice creative writing try to keep it that way. Hiding behind the excuse that “no one cares about creative writing except the people who practice it”, the creative writing clique keeps to itself.

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What You Read Can’t Hurt You

November 17, 2010
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Discussing serious fiction – with its complicated characters, heavy themes, and often intricate storylines – is sure to inspire questions like: Is this character believable? Is the character fully developed? Are the relationships between the characters fully realized?

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