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Read Stories: 11 Short Story Collections to Encourage You
ByCheryl September 9, 2026September 10, 2026

I was listening to The New Yorker Fiction Podcast with Deborah Treisman, and in that episode, “Miriam Toews reads Raymond Carver.” There’s something spellbinding about Carver’s “Elephant,” a story about family: the guilt and responsibility that weighs the narrator as he cares for his mother, ex-wife, daughter, and brother. Listening to Toews read and discuss…

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Reading by the Atlantic in Liberia
ByCheryl July 17, 2026August 17, 2026

This year I returned to Liberia after three decades. I felt as if I needed to return to the source of my turmoil in order to be brave enough to venture on this new path of reading around the world and to slowly overcome my reclusiveness. I had to do so in order to heal….

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Discover the World in These Intriguing Memoirs
ByCheryl May 1, 2026August 5, 2026

I enjoy reading memoirs because I find the experience transformative. Memoirs introduce me to the intricacies of a culture or place that I may not have discovered otherwise. When I read personal stories that carry universal truths, I am reminded that I am not alone in this world, that there are people in other continents…

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The Core Shelf: 50 Novels Every Personal Library Deserves
ByCheryl December 22, 2025July 30, 2026

Sometimes you read a book and want to buy more copies of it. Sometimes you read a book and know that twenty years later, you will still be enthralled by it. You will remember it because it is not only a book of the present; it is a book of the present, past, and future….

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