As part of the Documenta 14 art festival in Germany, Argentinian artist Marta Minujín created a full-size replica of the Greek Parthenon using 100,000 books that are currently banned across the world today. Minujín built her replica at Friedrichsplatz in Kassel, the site of a famous Nazi book- burning when the fascist party were at the… Continue reading 100,000 Banned Books
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The Strength of Words
Jose Alberto Gutierrez, a trash collector from Bogota, Colombia has spent the last 20 years rescuing discarded books from garbage bins in order to build a free community library. Gutierrez still remembers seeing the book that started it all, the Russian classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy in a garbage bin outside a home in… Continue reading The Strength of Words
Book Club: Do You Suffer From Tsundoku?
Does this sound familiar: books stacked up beside your bed, novels tucked beside the toilet, paperbacks poked away in various corners of your house, or overflowing on bookshelves? Do you find yourself that, despite the fact that there is no more room or time in the day to read them, buying more books? Do you worry that your… Continue reading Book Club: Do You Suffer From Tsundoku?
A Gift from Darkness
In April 2014 Boko Haram, one of the world’s deadliest terror groups, captured international attention when they abducted 276 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria. Almost three years later, nearly 200 of those schoolgirls are still missing. And the threat of Boko Haram continues to grow, in the first week of April, 22 girls and… Continue reading A Gift from Darkness
The Eight Year Old Best Selling Author
Nia Mya Reese is winning at life — at the age of eight. After telling her teacher she was an expert at caring for her (annoying) little brother she was encouraged to write a book about it, which she did and it has since become an Amazon bestseller. The inspiration for Nia Mya’s book came… Continue reading The Eight Year Old Best Selling Author
The Gender Gap
Loganberry Books, an independent bookstore in Cleveland, US, is making a powerful statement about the gender gap in fiction. The staff wanted to do something a bit different to celebrate Women’s History Month, which falls in March, so they decided to turn the books written by men inwards, showing only the pages and left the… Continue reading The Gender Gap
A Chapter A Day Might Keep the Grim Reaper Away
Book lovers rejoice — not only does reading make you less stressed, more intelligent, and better at concentrating it could also make you live longer! A recent study was carried out by splitting people into three groups, those who did not read, those who read up to three and a half hours per week, and… Continue reading A Chapter A Day Might Keep the Grim Reaper Away
Book Club: Marley Dias
You know you have made it when you are on The Ellen Show. Ellen tends to only feature the coolest, most inspiring people and 12-year-old Marley Dias certainly is one cool kid. Marley Dias kickstarted a global literacy movement and has just announced that she has secured her very own book deal. Dias, who lives… Continue reading Book Club: Marley Dias
Book Club: 1984 and ‘Alternative Facts’
Writers tend to write about the world around them. JK Rowling, for example, partially based Voldemort and his Death Eaters on Hitler and the Nazis, Shakespeare reportedly wrote The Tempest in 1610 after hearing about a fleet of colonial ships wrecked off the coast of Bermuda, while Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was inspired by the… Continue reading Book Club: 1984 and ‘Alternative Facts’
Meet Daliyah, she’s four and has read over 1,000 books
At only four-years-old Daliyah loves reading so much she has already devoured more than 1,000 books. Daliyah, who lives in Georgia with her parents and two older siblings, grew up listening to her mother and elder siblings read out loud. She began recognizing written words when she was just 18 months old and was reading… Continue reading Meet Daliyah, she’s four and has read over 1,000 books