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Melissa Gouty
Jan 153 min read
The Truth Hurts. How to Know If You're a Book Snob
What happened to me that I stopped "enjoying" and started judging every book? Was I a book snob?
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Melissa Gouty
Dec 18, 20234 min read
Am I Perpetuating a Harmful Myth If I Buy a "Reading Woman" Calendar?
I've always longed for a "Woman" calendar...until I began to contemplate the real meaning and decided not to perpetuate the myth.
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Melissa Gouty
Aug 24, 20235 min read
How to Market Literacy: Cool Lessons from Jay-Z and the Brooklyn Public Library
Jay-Z uses his wealth and celebrity to give innovative free marketing to the Brooklyn Public Library, boosting literacy with The Book of HOV
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Melissa Gouty
Jul 4, 20233 min read
Word-Nerd Delight: Can You Pass This Quiz on 20 Words From Jane Eyre?
The novel, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, is packed with words you may or may not know. Can you pass this quiz over 20 vocabulary words?
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Melissa Gouty
Mar 13, 20215 min read
How a Daily Reading Habit Makes You More Creative Than a Daily Writing Habit
Every writer hears the standard advice: Write every day. But if they don't also READ every day, they can't be successful.
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Melissa Gouty
Mar 4, 20215 min read
How One Compassionate Woman Put 150 Million Books Into the Hands of Kids
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has "gifted" more than 150 million books to children throughout the world. She's a true book hero.
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Melissa Gouty
Nov 30, 20204 min read
Reading Brings Us Joy: Three Ways to Stop Being Too Serious About It
Do It Just For Fun This Tender Land Our Monday night book club had been enjoying a discussion about William Kent Krueger’s novel, This...
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Melissa Gouty
Nov 10, 20205 min read
4 Reasons Why Reading Out Loud Is Actually Good For You
Reading out loud is a skill for all age groups, but it's also a tool that improves memory, comprehension, social connection, and enjoyment.
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Melissa Gouty
Nov 3, 20203 min read
Get High at this Amazing Bookstore Guaranteed to Give You a Buzz
This Dujiangyan bookstore is a bibliophile’s ticket to dream-world. More than 80,000 books are displayed in the 10,500 square foot bookstore
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Melissa Gouty
Oct 10, 20204 min read
This Year’s Nobel Prize in Literature and Other Cool Facts
Congratulations to 2020's Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, American poet, Louise Glück - and thank you, Alfred Nobel, for your vision.
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Melissa Gouty
Sep 30, 20205 min read
What Does It Really Mean to Be Literate in America?
The literacy rate in America is 95%, but that's misleading because much of the population doesn't read at proficient levels.
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Melissa Gouty
Sep 22, 20206 min read
Can Reading Literary Fiction Make You a Better Person?
The study of how reading affects our personality is in its infancy and have found that people who read literary fiction have more empathy.
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Melissa Gouty
Aug 19, 20205 min read
Why You Need to Develop a Biliterate Brain — and How to Do It
The average American spends more than 6 hours a day reading digitally. We need to develop bilateral brains to process information.
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Melissa Gouty
Aug 14, 20204 min read
4 Conundrums from Doris Lessings' Novel Lecture
Doris Lessing's Nobel Lecture discussed the desire for education in Zimbabwe, and how books and reading are essential to society.
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Melissa Gouty
Aug 13, 20204 min read
4 Unexpected Ways to Support Indie Bookstores
If you don't have money like James Patterson, you can still support indie bookstores. Do it. A city without a bookstore is a sad place.
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Melissa Gouty
Aug 12, 20205 min read
Guaranteed Good Reads for the Rest of the Year
We never have enough reading time, so you have to choose your books wisely. Here are guaranteed good reads from the Monday Night Book Club.
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Melissa Gouty
Jun 19, 20203 min read
4 Ways a Lifetime of Reading Gives You a Competitive Boost
Live smarter, healthier, happier, and longer just by reading books. Luckily, 76% of adult Americans report reading at least one book a year.
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Melissa Gouty
Jun 10, 20205 min read
Why Reading Sad Books is a Good Thing
Escaping into a book is a pleasurable activity. I love indulging in a book that takes me far away without having to think about life.
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Melissa Gouty
Jun 7, 20205 min read
The Best Way to Learn History is to Read Fiction
What’s the best part of historical fiction? History. I learned more about history from reading fiction than I ever learned from textbooks.
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Melissa Gouty
Apr 22, 20205 min read
What You Need to Know About Being Well-Read
o be “well-read” means to know a lot about multiple subjects because you’ve learned from multiple books in multiple genres about multiple ti
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