Reading develops cognitive ...

Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

Karin Slaughter

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I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

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Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

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Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

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sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

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Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

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