How Books Connect to the Epic Moments of Your Life
Books are emotionally linked to every momentous occasion of my existence. Your life is probably "book-marked" too.
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 4, 2020
- 3 min
Can a Book That Costs $22,000 Be Better Than a Trip to Italy?
The Sistine Chapel 3-volume set reproduces artwork at a 1:1 proportion, making you feel "as if you were a bird on Michelangelo's shoulder."
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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
- Nov 1, 2020
- 2 min
How to Honor an Avid Reader After an Untimely Death
Grace had always wanted floor to ceiling bookshelves with a rolling library ladder. Ben built them for her...as a tribute after she died.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 27, 2020
- 4 min
If You Love Elephants, Read These Two Very Different Books
If you love elephants, read Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult and The Elephant Company by Vicki Croke. Two books that both honor elephants.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 22, 2020
- 3 min
One Book That Will Make You a Better Writer
Ben Blatt's book Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve uses data to examine the elements of great writing: similes, cliches, adverbs, and more.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 22, 2020
- 4 min
The Overstory: An Epic Tale of Our Relationship with Trees
The best in environmental fiction, Richard Powers' The Overstory depicts the intertwined destiny of humans and trees.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 15, 2020
- 4 min
4 Amazing Reasons Your Brain Is Buffer Than You Imagined
Your brain is stronger, faster, more agile, more complex, and much buffer than you ever imagined. Four reasons for your very buff brain.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 13, 2020
- 5 min
The Precarious Balance of Life in "The Atomic Weight of Love"
The Atomic Weight of Love is a story of a woman trying to find herself, torn between dreams and demands and the secrets of Los Alamos.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 12, 2020
- 4 min
Rebecca, Du Maurier's Gothic Novel, Comes Again To Haunt Us
I got a thrill from reading du Maurier's Rebecca years ago. I got another thrill when I found out that Netflix is releasing the movie.
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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
- Oct 6, 2020
- 5 min
Creativity Lessons from Leo…the Greatest Innovator Ever
Leonardo da Vinci is the greatest genius of all time. We can learn how to be creative by modeling five of Leo's behaviors.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 2, 2020
- 3 min
Why Are Pencils Painted Yellow?
After the discovery of graphite and the development of the pencil, the world forever changed because we could write wherever we went.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 1, 2020
- 7 min
The Challenge of Finding -- and Giving -- Honest Feedback
Finding honest feedback is hard. You have to find readers who are willing to read. They’re capable of language skills. They're honest.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 1, 2020
- 4 min
Changing the Stereotype of Tea-Drinkers
Tea companies are winning new converts, increasing sales, and expanding their brand by overturning the previous stereotypes.
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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 25, 2020
- 6 min
What Writers Can Learn from Leonardo da Vinci
da Vinci was the greatest genius of all time, someone who gave advice that writers today can use to nurture their own creative genius.
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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
- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
"Dune" Will Come Again
Frank Herbert's science fiction Classic, Dune, is being remade into a new full-length feature film to be released in December 2020.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Beneath a Scarlet Sky provides a look at how WWII impacted the citizens of Italy and the true story of one boy who becomes a spy and a hero.
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