Tag Archives: reading

Buy a Book Day

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Happy Buy a Book Day! Celebrate by buying a fantasy adventure for 99 cents!  Maybe two?

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Skills We Take for Granted

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

This stems from something decades ago.  When making some 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons characters with players, one was asking why his barbarian wasn’t allowed to start with reading and writing.  He had to use points to give himself these … Continue reading →

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Happy National Author’s Day!

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

So, today is the day we honor authors.  I assume this was started in a country and/or during a time where people respected such a career.  At least authors who don’t already have a movie or TV series deal.  Anyway, … Continue reading →

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International Literacy Day!

Posted on September 8, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

I know I’ve been doing a lot of holidays, but good ones keep coming up.  Also, school started and things are busy.  Today, I’m bringing a really important holiday to you, which I think more people need to be aware … Continue reading →

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Happy Read a Book Day!

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

Today is ‘Read a Book Day’!  Didn’t know this holiday existed, but it’s definitely a hobby that people should try out.  Let’s not be specific about books too.  Sure, you have novels and tomes.  You also have manga, short stories, … Continue reading →

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Questions 3: Forced Reading Experience

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

I talked before about how school forces students to read specific books.  Many times, this results in creating people who see reading as a chore.  It’s a big challenge to meet course curriculum standards and not sacrifice the individual in … Continue reading →

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Should We Keep Pushing the Classics?

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

A conversation started at work between two coworkers and I got pulled into it.  One person was stating that they didn’t think the classics should be taught any more because it’s hard for students to connect.  The language is older … Continue reading →

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Supporting Independent Authors

Posted on November 27, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

I’ve been thinking about supporting authors lately.  Seems so much harder to get supporters these days.  I’ve been told that the indie author bubble burst long ago, so that could be it.  Yet, I do see some authors still getting … Continue reading →

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Questions 3: How to Make Reading Fun?

Posted on May 26, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

Here we are at the end of the week.  Been an interesting topic.  I figure it’s good to end on a highly interactive post.  For those who are teachers or have children, this might be fairly easy.  For others, maybe … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Nurturing Reading

Posted on May 24, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

As I said on Monday, there are a lot of threats to reading.  We don’t even realize when they are striking at times.  Most boil down to making the act of reading a chore, which nobody likes to do.  So, … Continue reading →

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