Like books, tea is a life force for me. I’m obsessed with the ritual of tea, everything from selecting a blend of tea to drink to the percussive, smooth sound of pouring
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Every time a book smashes genre conventions, literature evolves. Authors who fearlessly push against help genres progress rather than stagnate. That doesn’t mean it’s always comfortable to experience, but, indeed, the controversy
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If you are finding yourself in a reading slump, think about ways you can still engage in the arts and reconnect with reading. I busted out of a recent period of the
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Who doesn’t love books you can read in one sitting? If you’re looking to jumpstart your reading, quickly add a few books to your Goodreads Challenge tally, or are prepping for a
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I very nearly woke up in my twin bed from childhood on my 30th birthday. But this January, when I finally crossed over into my thirties, I had one of my first
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I can’t sleep. I’ve been reading again, restless and thinking about books again, why they matter, why now, how. We’ve already passed into the new year, yet my best books of 2017
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Right now, I am snowed in. Philadelphia, and much of the United States, is under a “bomb cyclone,” some kind of wild term for a snowstorm. I admit, it’s pretty fun. My
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Even though we are supposedly living in the era of “Peak TV,” it is amazing that few shows really rise above the background noise and stand out. Netflix’s drama Mindhunter was one of
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“What happened?” is not just the title of a recent memoir by Hillary Clinton. It’s also a question I think many of us grapple with on a daily basis. How did “this”
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The sun is setting earlier each night, the weather is getting chillier, and Starbucks is serving Pumpkin Spice Lattes. It’s autumn, and for the first time in three years, I’m not in
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