Category Archives: reading trends

Balancing the old with the new, and the many with the few

Pssst…I have a confession to make. I’ve never read Moby Dick.  Or Ulysses. Or Anna Karenina, for that matter.  I’ve meant to for a while now, but there’s one big thing that stops me. I’m a bookseller who works at … Continue reading

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A new report that puts a little pep in my step

The National Endowment for the Arts is releasing a report today that shows the number of adult readers of novels, short stories, poems, and plays has increased rather than declined. In 2002, it was at 46.7 percent. In 2008, the … Continue reading

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