Today we are only going to talk about the next five methods of increasing your reading volume.  Maybe we will slip in some bonus material...

In the previous Your Brain of Tomorrow, we discussed the importance of reading for the neurobiology and mental health of any individual....

Technically, Dribbles and Drabbles. The history of short, short supper short literature is not new. The legendary story popularly...

I do not know if you have ever read out loud to yourself. If you haven’t you should. Even the articles you read on your phone, though...

I started to think about this question today when it was pointed out that my wife and I own more books than we can read in the remainder...

I do not read very many biographies. I read none in my youth, and only began to entertain reading them when I was about 30. Now, though I...

This is not a video game reference. It is instead trying to pull together the ideas in this short series into what I call the doom loop....

Humans seek out bad news. We are hardwired to do so. Here is an example of why. You live in a small village, under the Dunbar number,...

Several people have commented on the last reading blog, Read the change you want to see in the world. Because of some of these messages,...

I have talked about reading fiction, reading nonfiction, reading genres, reading large and reading small. Today, I want to talk about...

We are all alike. I’ve noted before the similarities between fantasy and science fiction, but I have started to read more broadly of...

I have talked before about reading books you loved as a child; the books that made us. I have talked about rereading books which I have...

I was struck recently by an interaction with someone who was so unaccustomed to reading outside of their own genre, when they read a...

Reading is good for you. Have you ever heard of the Mathew effect? “The Matthew effect,” is a term that refers to biblical verse Matthew...

By the title, I don’t I mean to say that all science fiction has bad science. It doesn’t. But a lot of science fiction books do. By no...

I have been considering returning to several books I enjoyed when I was very young. Not a child but not even a teenager. I am almost...

I have heard it said, and generally agree, we cannot write what we do not know. Sometimes when we read novels the errors stand out to...

Purple prose: “Overly ornate prose text that may disrupt a narrative flow by drawing undesirable attention to its own extravagant style...

It has been said you are what you eat. People take this to mean it has to do with food. Perhaps they should. The origin is summarized...

Today is all about nonfiction, because today is about trustworthiness. Do you trust what you read? Should you? There are many good and...