There’s no doubt that we live in a divided world. We often feel separate from those around us—national borders, cultural divides, racial inequality, age, and gender can make us cling to what we know and shun what we don’t understand. However, there is one thing that’s universal and timeless: storytelling. Stories bridge the gap between us…
Children are born as blank slates. They begin their life from zero, and their nature and character take shape as they grow. While schools hone their academic skills, mere academic development has never been enough to thrive in life. As a parent, you are responsible for enriching the mind and soul of your kid. Here…
In modern society, it’s of great importance for people what attitude they evoke in the people around them. How interesting, beautiful and useful you are to society determines your popularity. This, in turn, helps you achieve success in your personal and professional life. You can find thousands of proofs of this on the Internet. There…
Those who have ever learned foreign languages say that reading books is one of the best ways to comprehend the new language. Not everyone loves that, as some teachers prefer Maugham, Galsworthy, or Fitzgerald, the English and American literary classics that might seem a bit boring or too complicated for the modern students. We offer…
2013 was marked by an obsession with young adult dystopian novels, and last year was the year of escapism (and also the year I discovered that not all contemporary fiction is as cheesy as most of the contemporary Christian fiction I read in my early 20s...but that's a post for another day). While I have several…
I'm almost afraid to say it aloud, but as we kick off the third month 0f 2017, and I'm still reading like crazy. After last year's struggle to fit in reading time, it feels so good to be reading a ton once again! Thes books kept my interest as I was reading in February The…
Today I'm sharing my secret for finding Kindle deals on the books you actually want to read! When I got my first Kindle for Christmas almost 7 years ago, I had almost completely given up reading altogether due to the busyness of those early years of motherhood. I always had a baby in my…
Although my girls have been listening to audiobooks since they were tiny, it's only been this year that I've discovered the beauty of audiobooks for myself. But once I got started, I was hooked. When I'd tried listening to audiobooks in the past, I always felt like my mind was wandering too much and I was missing large…
For a long time, I avoided rating books on Goodreads. As I've started using it more regularly and connecting with more people, I had a couple of friends ask me to share my ratings on the books that I have read. My problem was that I had trouble defining what each of those star ratings…
I love children's books with a passion, but I especially love picture books! When I first began adding treasuries to our library almost 10 years ago (many of them recommended by Sonlight), I wasn't sure I was a fan. These anthologies took my beloved picture book from a light, easy-to-hold-while-juggling-babies-and-toddlers book to a thing that…