Reading with Mandy
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Finding Your Foundation Book
One of the best things about fiction is that it can tell the truth in ways that nonfiction is unable to tell. I think one of the best things about being a reader is having one book you can return to again and again regardless of your age or what is going on in your…
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Literary Roadmap
One thing that never stops surprising me is how interconnected books are. I’m reading The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga and it’s written in the style of a Socratic dialogue (intentionally) and it makes me think of the Socratic Dialogues and the history of literature. Even more so it emphasizes…
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The Case for Reading Romance Novels
One thing that I find interesting is how books capture popular culture, obscure cultures and everything in between. Books are for everyone but specific books are written with certain types of readers in mind. In more recent years the Young Adult market has exploded (especially in comparison to what was available in the 90s for…