When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

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Reading promises so much: better mental health, a sense of wellbeing, cultural and educational enrichment, even greater ...

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You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

Bookworms’ reading quirks are more common than you’d think. (We’re looking at you, page sniffers and back-to-front flippers!) As the daughter of a librarian, I grew up surrounded by books. My mother ...

When Alden Jones taught her first back-in-person college class during the pandemic, something surprising happened. “Here I am, teaching the same class I’ve taught for 10 years, using the same book and ...

Babies and young children are sponges that soak in practically everything in their environments. It’s true! Even during story time, their minds are at work, taking in all the language they hear and ...

Getting lost in the pages of a good book is the highest form of entertainment for many people. If you’re a big reader, you probably already know how easy it is to lose all sense of time when absorbed ...