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World Book Day is a day set aside by the United Nations Educational, Sceintific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote reading, publishing and copyright. It is celebrated annually on  23 rd April. The importance of reading can’t be over emphasized on a day like this. Reading exposes the reader to a world of imagination and communication. It is by reading that one can learn and gain experience and knowledge. Reading helps improve understanding and exposes the reader to new things and ideas. Little wonder it is then that once we learn to read, we just have an insatiable desire to go on and never stop. It is important to introduce kids to reading at an early age particularly the formative years. Researchers have found that little kids who are read to, have better activated mental imagery and understanding which are key to development of language and literacy. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one.” – Geroge R.R.

C lassics in literature are those works which have somehow found a way to stand the test of time. In fact it seems that no matter how many decades or centuries ago they were first published, they never go out of style.I happened to be curious enough to find out what qualifies a work of fiction as classic. I discovered that there are diverse opinions on the subject.  Some persons are of the opinion that what qualifies as a classic is decided by the bookstore owner, librarian and so on. Another school of thought opined that any book published before 1960 is a classic. According to Esther Lombardi,  About.com’s resident classics literature guide, “A classic usually expresses some artistic quality—an expression of life, truth and beauty. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work’s not a classic. A classic has a c

Hey fiction addicts !!! Welcome to April. In some other parts of the world it's spring. But here in Nigeria, where I come from it’s ….……. Oh, well I don’t even know what season we are in. I just know that the weather is terribly hot and the sun is scorching. I can’t wait for the rainy season, so I can have a hot cup of coffee and snuggle up with lots of books. Anyways I hope you enjoyed the last book of the month and as you know it’s that time of the month when we unveil the book of the month. The book of the month for April is The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout published in March 2013 by Random House Publishers.  The Burgess boys , Jim and Bob are on the verge of a mid life crisis. Both are lawyers practicing in New York . They are however remembered in their hometown for the accident caused by Bob that killed their father and changed their lives forever. Their sister Susan, stayed back in their hometo