By day, she researches the poetry of John Donne as a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. But in the evening, when Dr Katherine Rundell wants a bit of comfort, she reads Paddington. “As an adult, the thing I love about Paddington is that the structure Michael Bond has built into his books is one of hope. Things which appear to be negative turn out to be just cogs in the greater machine. I think Bond sees life as miraculous – and that’s in the structure of the book.”

It’s amazing how one book or one story has the potential to completely change your focus and your mindset. This one book for me was...

You won't learn to lead just by reading books. But finding out how other people succeeded can trim the learning curve.

Reading out loud to kids from print books is more likely to promote positive interactions than reading from e-books, according to a new study.

Wait! Stop! Before you order that copy of David Benioff's City of Thieves from Amazon (a book I highly recommend), check to see if it's available at your local library. Because free! Oh, I know what you're saying: You don't have time to visit your library's website or load up one of the e-book-borrowing apps (as described in how to get free e-books from your public library) and do all that manual searching.

Years ago, I lived in a remote mountain town that had never had a public library. The town was one of the largest in New York State by area but small in population, with a couple thousand residents spread out over about two hundred square miles. By the time my husband and I moved there, the town had lost most of its economic base—in the nineteenth century it had supported a number of tanneries and mills—and our neighbors were mainly employed seasonally, if at all.

Do you remember, back in 2017, when reversing your books for aesthetic appeal was briefly a thing? Apartment Therapy posted a photo to Instagram of a bookshelf with the spines facing inward, and the dramatic response — dozens of users denouncing the trend as anti-intellectual, even comparing it to book-burning — felt, at the time, like the ultimate example of the bookish Internet’s capacity for outrage. Then Marie Kondo came for our books, and the bookish Internet proved me wrong.

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Experts and influencers in user experience and user interface design—the people whose names you know—share the books that influenced their careers. @Enterprisenxt

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From hiding from a copy of The Exorcist to being unnerved by the likes of Shirley Jackson, Stephen King and Iain Banks, here are your most alarming reading experiences

Stay mindfully connected with these steps to practice contentment mindfully. #contentment #mindfullycontent #mindfullness

The final instalment to the Rosie Project trilogy points to greater awareness about neurological differences such as autism.

At the Angoulême International Comics Festival, there was a sense that the best days for comic books may be yet to come — in the French-speaking world, at least.

I picked up All Systems Red on a Wednesday morning, meaning to read for five minutes, maybe ten. I'd picked it because there was a mean-looking robot on the cover and, obviously, I have a weakness for robot stories. Also, because it had the word "Murderbot" right there under the picture. All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries.

Bodleian acquires rare box dated to late 1400s, saying it reveals preoccupation with accessing information on the move is centuries-old

Good stories are not just confined in books or in print media, and life's lessons are not limited to be told through printed words and letters.

Getting in the zone and staying there.

“They were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed” (Gen. 2:25 CJSB). This year I committed to reading the Bible through in one year. I will blog through my journey …

Disclaimer: Today’s story does deal with rape, if that makes you uncomfortable, please feel free not to read on, and I’ll see you next week <3 I have a trigger warning beside the scr…