Reading has been shown to put our brains into a pleasurable trance-like state, similar to meditation, and it brings the same health benefit...

The Library at Ditchley Park  watercolour by Alexander B. Serebriakoff, 1948 [ The smell of old books . . . *swoon* ]

Simple, warm, bright and inviting. Here are some home libraries I think we can all agree are delightful.

Early Spring by Darren Thompson [Oh yes, the warm weather is coming and reading on a park bench sounds like just the warm weather pur...

I go back to the reading room where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of the Arabian Nights. Slowly, Like a movie fadeout, the real...

When it rains and you're a child and you're in your little cabin in the forest. ~Margaret Atwood, Two Solicitudes  [Yes, and my c...

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the rea...

by Chris Silas Neal for the Brooklyn Public Library

When I was 21 I read Anna Karenina . I thought Anna and Vronsky were soulmates. They were deeply in love and therefore had to be together. I...

Deep winter months are in need of a good book and a hot drink. Ahhh delightful. Recently I dabbled in some non-fiction: How ...