Reading

My earliest reading memoryMy mother reading me Terry Furchgott’s Phoebe and the Hot Water Bottles, when I was four or five. It’s such a cheerily illustrated book, about a little girl whose widowed father leaves her home alone while he’s at work and, one night, the house catches on fire and Phoebe puts it out using hot-water bottle water. Which is to say, picture book-wise, things were quite a bit darker back then. Gosh, I loved it.My favourite book growing upAlthough I was read to endlessly when I was little, once I got…

When evangelical Americans began talking about Donald Trump as God’s chosen president, the religious phrasing around his leadership – miracles, destiny, calling – triggered something in the memories of Lynette Wallworth, the Emmy-winning Australian virtual reality film-maker. As a young woman, she had been drawn into a Pentecostal community and came to hold “extreme beliefs” about God’s will. She became a “prophetess”; fellow members would come to her with questions to hear her “give prophecy” from literal and earnest…

Are you all caught up on your favourite Netflix show, but that novel on your nightstand is gathering dust? You're far from alone, according to a German study released Thursday decrying a "dramatic" decline in book readership as more time is spent online. The number of people buying books in Germany plummeted by nearly 18 percent between 2013 and 2017, the study commissioned by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association found. The drop was even steeper at 24 to 37 percent among those aged 20 to 50 -- the same…

Images: Sandra Vogel / ZDNet Onyx is an established maker of E Ink tablets that can accommodate pen input as well as run third-party applications, thanks to its implementation of Android. Onyx devices come in a range of sizes, for a range of use cases. I most recently looked at a pair of e-reader/content creation devices -- the 13.3-inch…

This month is full of literary treats for Indian bookworms as critically acclaimed authors like Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh are slated to publish their works. Apart from their books, there will be a plethora of book releases on topics ranging from mythology, crime to fiction and climate change. Here is a list of books that you may want to consider adding to your bookshelves in June. 1.My Seditious Heart: A collection of Arundhati Roy's non-fiction writings, My Seditious Heart is a book that follows the…

A monkey that confesses he steals women’s identity cards, causing them to temporarily forget who they are, starred Tuesday as author Haruki Murakami marked 40 years since his debut as a novelist with his first public reading in Japan in nearly a quarter century. Now 70 and one of the world’s most popular and acclaimed novelists, Murakami debuted with “Hear the Wind Sing” in 1979, four years after he began writing while running a jazz bar in Tokyo. His 1987 romantic novel “Norwegian Wood” was his first best seller,…

Sonam Kapoor reveals she has been in love with books since her childhood days Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor on Friday took to Instagram to upload a childhood picture of herself. In the throwback picture, Sonam is seen lying on the bed with a book in her hands. Through her post’s caption, the 35-year-old actress revealed she has been a voracious reader since her childhood days. Captioning the post, Sonam wrote, “Nothing has changed since then once a (bookworm) always a bookworm." Soon after sharing…