Quote for Today: Flora Rheta Schreiber
“Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis. I don’t mean escape. You don’t escape in books. On the contrary, they help you to realize yourself more fully. …
Quote for Today: Umberto Eco
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is …
Quote for Today: Courtney Summers
There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or strange or idealistic or desperate or whimsical or …
The Second Annual Late Summer Reading List
books © Porsche Brosseau with CCLicense From the whimsical and fantastic to the challenging and devastating, here is our second annual late summer reading list. Enjoy! There is something for …
Ten Most Popular Articles of 2016
These are the ten most viewed articles written in 2016. I am excited that many of them involve experiences and works from our synkroniciti Open Mics, which were happening once …
Quote for Today: Ellen Hopkins
Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. ―Ellen Hopkins, “Manifesto” Image © Quinn Dombrowski with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Diane Setterfield
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new …
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to …
Quote for Today: Hazel Rochman
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that …