What’s the trait you value most about yourself? I recently stumbled across some startling numbers. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), fewer than 10% of U.S. 13-year-olds read for pleasure “almost every day.” Let that sink in. Back in 2012, it was 27%. By 2020, […]
Do you remember your favorite book from childhood? It seems this is nostalgia week. Makes sense in that in our minds here, it is the beginning of summer, and we have high expectations of great memories to be made. Looking back at childhood, I was consumed by books. […]
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? Just a few weeks ago, I lamented about the fact that I haven’t read a book in a long time. I used to devour books. In my early twenties, I used to go second-hand book shoppong for […]
What book could you read over and over again? I’m going to be frank with you. I used to read books with a voracious quality, signaling my need to read more and more. My mom used to go to the public library on my behalf, at times, and […]
For decades now, I have traveled cross country multiple times, lugging boxes upon boxes of books. I’ve always been proud of my own personal library collection. Books were everything to me growing up. I loved being transported to these other worlds. As a kid, I even wrote my […]
I stopped watching the news a few years back. I had reached a toxic saturation point. Let me reframe. Most news channels just offer opinion these days. I’m surrounded by many opinionated people and didn’t need to subject myself to more of that. However, now that Covid-19 is […]
The other night there was a most beautiful nighttime sky in New York City. As I looked up and marveled at the moon, I was reminded of a news story that came out a few months ago listing the top books checked out at the grand New York […]
Recently I shared with a friend that I haven’t read a book in a while. Mind you, I bought two books four months ago. They remain unopened in my desk drawer. They were books for work, afterall. Thus, a smidge on the boring and obvious side. But here […]
I am one of those odd ducks that likes to read the ending to a book first. You would often have caught me in the aisle of a bookstore sitting on the floor reading the last few pages of a book. Then I would decide whether to buy […]
Dear Friend: I believe that I have previously mentioned I have lived in 17 cities, both internationally and domestically. Majority of the cities being domestic. That is a lot of instances in which I have been uprooted. Maybe that is a wrong way of phrasing it as […]
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