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Melissa Gouty
- Jul 4
- 3 min
Word-Nerd Delight: Can You Pass This Quiz on 20 Words From Jane Eyre?
The novel, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, is packed with words you may or may not know. Can you pass this quiz over 20 vocabulary words?
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 13, 2021
- 5 min
How a Daily Reading Habit Makes You More Creative Than a Daily Writing Habit
Every writer hears the standard advice: Write every day. But if they don't also READ every day, they can't be successful.
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 4, 2021
- 5 min
How One Compassionate Woman Put 150 Million Books Into the Hands of Kids
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has "gifted" more than 150 million books to children throughout the world. She's a true book hero.
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
Reading Brings Us Joy: Three Ways to Stop Being Too Serious About It
Do It Just For Fun This Tender Land Our Monday night book club had been enjoying a discussion about William Kent Krueger’s novel, This...
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 10, 2020
- 5 min
4 Reasons Why Reading Out Loud Is Actually Good For You
Reading out loud is a skill for all age groups, but it's also a tool that improves memory, comprehension, social connection, and enjoyment.
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 3, 2020
- 3 min
Get High at this Amazing Bookstore Guaranteed to Give You a Buzz
This Dujiangyan bookstore is a bibliophile’s ticket to dream-world. More than 80,000 books are displayed in the 10,500 square foot bookstore
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 10, 2020
- 4 min
This Year’s Nobel Prize in Literature and Other Cool Facts
Congratulations to 2020's Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, American poet, Louise Glück - and thank you, Alfred Nobel, for your vision.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 30, 2020
- 5 min
What Does It Really Mean to Be Literate in America?
The literacy rate in America is 95%, but that's misleading because much of the population doesn't read at proficient levels.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 22, 2020
- 6 min
Can Reading Literary Fiction Make You a Better Person?
The study of how reading affects our personality is in its infancy and have found that people who read literary fiction have more empathy.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 19, 2020
- 5 min
Why You Need to Develop a Biliterate Brain — and How to Do It
The average American spends more than 6 hours a day reading digitally. We need to develop bilateral brains to process information.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 14, 2020
- 4 min
4 Conundrums from Doris Lessings' Novel Lecture
Doris Lessing's Nobel Lecture discussed the desire for education in Zimbabwe, and how books and reading are essential to society.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 13, 2020
- 4 min
4 Unexpected Ways to Support Indie Bookstores
If you don't have money like James Patterson, you can still support indie bookstores. Do it. A city without a bookstore is a sad place.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 12, 2020
- 5 min
Guaranteed Good Reads for the Rest of the Year
We never have enough reading time, so you have to choose your books wisely. Here are guaranteed good reads from the Monday Night Book Club.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jun 19, 2020
- 3 min
4 Ways a Lifetime of Reading Gives You a Competitive Boost
Live smarter, healthier, happier, and longer just by reading books. Luckily, 76% of adult Americans report reading at least one book a year.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jun 10, 2020
- 5 min
Why Reading Sad Books is a Good Thing
Escaping into a book is a pleasurable activity. I love indulging in a book that takes me far away without having to think about life.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jun 7, 2020
- 5 min
The Best Way to Learn History is to Read Fiction
What’s the best part of historical fiction? History. I learned more about history from reading fiction than I ever learned from textbooks.
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Melissa Gouty
- Apr 22, 2020
- 5 min
What You Need to Know About Being Well-Read
o be “well-read” means to know a lot about multiple subjects because you’ve learned from multiple books in multiple genres about multiple ti
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 16, 2020
- 3 min
How to Easily Triple Your Reading Time
How much time do you spend reading each day? 15 minutes? 30 minutes? How much time would you like to have in the company of a book? No matte
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Melissa Gouty
- Feb 5, 2020
- 6 min
How Many Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels Have You Read?
What are the requirements for winning a Pulitzer prize in fiction, and how many have you read over the last 20 years? Your score might surpr
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