Earlier in the day I was speaking with our book whisperer blogger Donalyn Miller about reading. She’s spearheading a book-a-day summer reading challenge for adults, which, by the way, has gone viral.

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I am a slow reader, and that’s a good thing. Let me give you an example. Go back and re-read my first sentence, more slowly this time. What do you notice about it? What surprises you? How does it work ...

You probably know about the slow eating craze, where you not only slow down to enjoy your food, but you connect with the origins of an item, like how it is harvested. Now, there's a group of people ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Slow down, you're moving too fast. Or in this case, reading too fast. That's the advice of some researchers who don't think we are getting everything we can out of reading today. David ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Before the dawn of the Internet, it was unlikely that while trying to read, you’d be confronted all in the same second with a blinking ad for belly fat removal, a message from an ex, and a button ...

In response to the article on slow reading, Karl Maurer sent the following citation from Nietzsche, written in 1886 near Genoa: In response to the article on slow reading, Karl Maurer sent the ...

The novelist Gary Shteyngart, interviewed this week on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air," was asked about writing books in the age of tweets and text messages. "I feel like I'm insane to write ...