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Reading literary fiction can make us better thinkers! — more creative, more rational, and more empathic.

  Book sculpture-The Thinker- by Daniel Lai A study by researchers at Toronto University has concluded that reading literary fiction can make us better thinkers — more able to handle uncertainty, ambiguity, open-ended situations and questions; all of which in … Continue reading

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Flying on a cinders track: reading in a digital age and the return of the novella

While there is so much both good and scary about the digital revolution and the increasing ease of independent publishing, I do love the possibilities that are opening up for the shorter fiction forms that have been long neglected by … Continue reading

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Is your book group looking for a novel? Check out ‘This Too Shall Pass’ by S J Finn

Just finished reading a novel by an Australian author I’d not heard of before. I picked it up in my local library because I liked the title. I’m a lazy and picky reader these days, and this one held my … Continue reading

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