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Resolve to read more in 2018 — for the right reasons

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January 5, 2018

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The Biblioracle: Resolve to read more in 2018 — for the right reasons

Thursday, Jan 4

I don't want to read more because I'm chasing a number, but because I know what I'm missing out on if I read less.

Get a reading from the Biblioracle

Biblioracle John Warner tells readers what to pick up next, based on their last five books. Send an email and get a reading. 

Review: 'Winter' by Ali Smith

In the second of her "Seasonal" quartet, Ali Smith delivers a breathtaking — and angry — novel.

Jacqueline Woodson named the new National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

"Brown Girl Dreaming" author Jacqueline Woodson has been named the next National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

Tina Brown's stories of glitz and gossip read more like cautionary tales

"The Vanity Fair Diaries" sounds like more fun than it reads.

Two dying memoirists wrote best-sellers about their final days. Then their spouses fell in love.

The story of Lucy Kalanithi and John Duberstein is both unlikely and destined, the stuff of a rom-com. It begins, tragically, on a death bed.

Science fiction: 3 new short story collections worth reading

"Robots vs. Fairies," "The Weight of Words" and "Starlings" are reviewed in this week's science-fiction roundup.

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