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Reading life Forget the fifty-books-a-year challenge. Ten pages with your morning coffee beats a heroic Sunday binge every time. Start with a book you genuinely want — not the one you think you should want — and keep it where your phone used to sit.
Our favourite trick: the "next-ten" rule. When a chapter ends, read ten more pages. Most nights you'll keep going; on the nights you don't, you've still moved forward.
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Kids Summer reading should feel like recess, not homework. Our kids' corner team chose five adventures — rainbows, floating castles, and one very kind unicorn — that early readers finish on their own and ask for again.
Tip from the floor: let them read the same book twice. Fluency lives in re-reading, and the second pass is where the jokes land.
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Staff picks Some of the biggest ideas arrive in the smallest packages. This month's staff picks are all under 200 pages: essays on attention, a fieldbook for design research, and a fable about a very quiet library.
Short books make perfect gifts — they say "I thought of you" without saying "clear your weekend."
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Essays A book you loved at twenty is a different book at forty — because you're a different reader. Re-reading is the cheapest form of time travel we stock.
This spring, pull one beloved title off your own shelf before buying anything new. Then tell us how it changed — we keep a notebook of exactly these stories behind the till.
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