Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.