Reading is an art and I’m sure we, most of us are already aware of the fact that not everybody is an artist. And before I begin with listing some of the most unique and amazing characteristics of readers which make them GREAT life partners, let me highlight another fact that reading is not the…
The 12 Year Old Girl Who Runs a Free Library
Meet Yashoda D Shenoy, the 12-year-old Indian, Kerala girl who runs a free library in Kochi, India. Yashoda learned about library dues and decided to start a free library after she thought about the poor who would not be able to access books to read. “It is open every day, from 9 am to 7…
A guide to building your reading habit.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. —Richard Steele Somewhere amidst the thoughts of quitting alcohol, joining the gym and getting your driver’s license lies the desire to develop a good reading habit. Reading holds some of the excellent benefits to the mental stimulation of a person, improving imaginations…
These pages of mine
“Those books. You’ve read them all?” Yes. I’ve read them all. I’ve devoured the woven words and placed them in my shelf of memories, safe and to be remembered, always. I’ve spent warm and breezy afternoons, piously making my way through hundreds of books in old, dusty libraries, the membership cards stacked neatly in…