Reading Literature as a Pathway to Success

Feel like you need to get your life together? You might want to pick up a book.

This Startup is Making Reading Cool Again

By Maryam Labib.

Most startups advertise with catchy slogans and change-your-world promises. “Get through your day without lifting a finger,” or “love what you do and do what you love.”

Yin and Yang: Reconciling New and Old Media

If you’re reading this sentence, there’s a high chance that you belong to the New Media Generation.

How I Survived Junior High and Lived to Tell the Tale

They called it junior high back then: grades seven, eight and nine.

It’s middle school now (six, seven, eight), but in either model, they’re tough years for a lot of young people, or so I’m reliably informed.

3 Classic Novels That Sum Up College Life

OK, so this article may be a little facetious… but you can be the judge of that.

If you’ve taken any college-level English class, there’s a chance that the syllabus included one of these classic titles that coincidentally speak…

Losing Touch in a Hyper-Connected World

From the time you wake up until you go to sleep, it’s entirely plausible for you to…

Classic Children’s Books Worth Reading as an Adult

By Atiyeh Taghiei.

Books have an undeniable impact on the shaping of minds regardless of a reader’s age. Still, countless surveys have been conducted that prove younger children who have an increased exposure to…

The 5 Stages of Grief (as Experienced by a Book-lover)

By Atiyeh Taghiei.

Many of us are aware of the five stages of grief as outlined in the Kübler-Ross model. These stages are applicable to most losses — and especially so for the avid book enthusiast. For readers…

Story of Words

By Haroon Dean.

Reading is often described as a magical experience — but my first experience was different.

“Thhhhh — uh…” “Cuh-cuh-caa-aaaah-utt…” “in…” “thh-uh…” “h-aa-t!”