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The Psychology of Reading
Why a book can be good for mental well-being.
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Barack Obama's summer 2023 music, book recs: SZA, Ice Spice, Peso Pluma make the cut
Nine books and 41 songs, including tracks from rising stars Peso Puma and Ice Spice, made the former president and tastemaker's recommendations list.
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Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books
Picture books must hitch a ride on the parent if a child is to get a look-in so the children’s publicity machine is tilted fully at the adults.
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World's first book written by AI paints 'dark portrait' of new reality
The editors of the world's first autobiography written by an AI code, 'I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks' have warned of the 'hostile' and 'darkly creative' reality of the A.I. in our midst.
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Single On Purpose - TLDR Book Summary
Discover self-love with John Kim's 'Single On Purpose'. Dive into our book summary for key insights on personal growth and self-discovery.
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Trans woman, bookstore, teacher sue over Montana law banning drag reading events
The complaint calls the new law “a breathtakingly ambiguous and overbroad bill, motivated by anti-LGBTQ+ animus.”
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What Happened to All the Sports Books?
20 years after 'Moneyball,' the genre has been drained of its significance—and there's an important culprit to blame.
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Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it.
A prominent author's decision to pull her novel from publication after being "review bombed" highlights Goodreads's power and raises questions about its owner: Amazon.
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Anna Funder rescues George Orwell's wife Eileen from being 'cancelled by the patriarchy' – and reminds us he's a sexual predator
Anna Funder’s new book, Wifedom, is a meditation on the insidious nature of patriarchy. Funder draws parallels between our #metoo era and the time of George Orwell and his wife Eileen.
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Do you love reading, writing or books in general? Here are five ways to get bookish this summer
There are so many ways to pursue a bookish life during the summer: cosying up in a hammock with a good book is one way, but so is getting out.
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The Writer Who Loves Books: Confessions of a Bookaholic
OK, the title of this post is perhaps a little silly and I am stating the obvious. There cannot be a writer out there who does not love books, but I am open to comments if you can prove me wrong.
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An 8-year-old snuck his handwritten book onto a library shelf. Now it has a 56-person waiting list.
Dillon Helbig's 81-page graphic novel— written by "Dillon His Self"—captured the hearts of his local librarians and their patrons.
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How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published
The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire.
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Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Is Writing a Book on Leadership
"At first, my answer was no. I didn’t want to write a book that hauled over the internal politics of the last five years, and then someone convinced me that I didn’t have to," Ardern wrote. “That maybe it might be worth expanding on some of things I talked about in my valedictory instead — like the idea you can be your own kind of leader and still make a difference. And so that’s what I’m planning to do.”
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Fabio says men in modern romance books are too 'soft' and 'woke' now, but readers disagree
Have romance novel characters become, well, too romantic? Fabio Lanzoni, the Italian American actor and model popular known as just Fabio who famously flaunted his muscular body on the covers of scores of romance novels, thinks so.
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Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?
Book bans, chatbots, pedagogical warfare: What it means to read has become a minefield.
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I Just Translated ‘1984’ Into Russian. I’m Gasping for Air
Opinion | This year, I spent a suffocating four months living inside George Orwell’s “1984.” I didn’t know what I was getting into when a Moscow publisher suggested that I translate the classic dystopian novel into Russian, so I agreed too lightly.
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Have You Been to the Library Lately?
Librarians once worried about shushing patrons. Now they have to deal with mental health episodes, the homelessness crisis, and random violence
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George Orwell's 1984 returned to Portland library after 65 years
Man returns George Orwell's dystopian novel to library decades late because of its relevance today.
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I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing
The still-updated World Book Encyclopedia is my antidote to the information apocalypse.
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