February 14 is Library Lovers Day. It is a day to honor libraries, librarians, book & library lovers in your life. Library Lovers Day started in Australia when the lovers of Australia’s libraries claimed Valentine’s Day as the Library Lovers Day. read more Feeling sad, you read—not to escape, but to feel understood. read more Finishing a book feels like getting to know a new friend. Rereading it is like returning to an old one. read more Flash fiction “Widow’s First Year” by Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates “I kept myself alive.” read more Founded in 1732, Portuguese bookshop Bertrand Chiado is the oldest operating bookshop in the world. It is 292 years old. For comparison purposes, @barnesandnoble is 138 years old; @amazon, 30. read more Founded in 1927, Strand is NYC’s largest independent and family-owned bookstore, with 230+ staffs, boasting 18 miles and 2.5 million new & used books, spreading 4 floors. It is named after a famous street in London where writers such as Thackeray, Dickens and Mill used to gather. read more Friday night reading is sacred. read more Fyodor Dostoevsky endured four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of mandatory military service in exile. When he later traveled through Western Europe, he developed a gambling addiction that brought him financial difficulties, forcing him to beg for money at one point. read more Gabriel García Márquez refuses to allow One Hundred Years of Solitude to be made into a film. The reason: “They would cast someone like Robert Redford and most of us do not have relatives who look like Robert Redford.” read more George Orwell's dystopian novel “1984” has topped 2022 electronic bestseller lists in Russia. read more George R.R. Martin has stated in interviews that he absolutely hates spellcheck and autocorrect. read more Gone with the Wind was originally titled Tomorrow Is Another Day. read more «« « 12 13 14 15 16 » »»
February 14 is Library Lovers Day. It is a day to honor libraries, librarians, book & library lovers in your life. Library Lovers Day started in Australia when the lovers of Australia’s libraries claimed Valentine’s Day as the Library Lovers Day. read more
Finishing a book feels like getting to know a new friend. Rereading it is like returning to an old one. read more
Flash fiction “Widow’s First Year” by Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates “I kept myself alive.” read more
Founded in 1732, Portuguese bookshop Bertrand Chiado is the oldest operating bookshop in the world. It is 292 years old. For comparison purposes, @barnesandnoble is 138 years old; @amazon, 30. read more
Founded in 1927, Strand is NYC’s largest independent and family-owned bookstore, with 230+ staffs, boasting 18 miles and 2.5 million new & used books, spreading 4 floors. It is named after a famous street in London where writers such as Thackeray, Dickens and Mill used to gather. read more
Fyodor Dostoevsky endured four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of mandatory military service in exile. When he later traveled through Western Europe, he developed a gambling addiction that brought him financial difficulties, forcing him to beg for money at one point. read more
Gabriel García Márquez refuses to allow One Hundred Years of Solitude to be made into a film. The reason: “They would cast someone like Robert Redford and most of us do not have relatives who look like Robert Redford.” read more
George Orwell's dystopian novel “1984” has topped 2022 electronic bestseller lists in Russia. read more
George R.R. Martin has stated in interviews that he absolutely hates spellcheck and autocorrect. read more
