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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...

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 classi...

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 h...

How shall I begin to tell you about the books which when you start reading, you’ll never be able to  stop until you’re done?  Er,  maybe this can help. Some books are just that. #Unputdownable. When you are reading one of these you just keep going, and saying to yourself, “Just one more chapter”, till you are done reading the book. Ok . I’ll get to it already. Here’s my list of top 15 Unputdownable novels.  1 John Grisham’s Sycamore Row is a direct sequel to his first novel, A Time to Kill and was originally published by  Doubleday in October 2013. Seth Hubbard wealthy lumber businessman and recluse is dying of cancer.  He eventually takes his own life by hanging himself on his property but not before writing a will in his own hand and  sending same to Jack Briggance with orders to defend it at all costs. The will left the largest fortune ever in the histor...

Dear book lovers, It is with utmost joy that I welcome you to the month of March . I’m pretty sure you all had an interesting February just like I did. As all book lovers know Well its time to reveal the book of the month…Drum roll please… The book of the month for March is Big Little Lies is written by Liane Moriarty and  was published by Penguin in July 2014.  The novel follows the life of three different mothers  including a single mom (Madeline, Celeste and Jane) in the fictional Pirriwee Peninsula near Sydney, Australia.  Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She's funny, and passionate, remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have just moved into her beloved beach side community and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline's youngest child. And to top it all off, Madeline's teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline;s ex-husband over her. Celeste is the ...