Archive for 2017
Every book needs a reader…
August 8, 2017
Books on a shelf are lifeless. It is the reader who breathes life into a book and brings the story to life. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies and the man who never reads lives only one. But maybe even more important, when I think back to the books I read as […]
What makes reading extraordinary?
April 30, 2017
I am always on the lookout for an insight into what makes fiction such an extraordinary medium —Frank Bruni recently wrote “Great fiction is the bridge to insufficiently understood lives, our compasses to inadequately learned truth.”
A poem that celebrates the virtues of not arriving
April 23, 2017
Ithaca by Cavafy is named after the most famous destination in world literature. The poem speaks of a life’s journey’s whose virtue is not in arriving at a destination, but in the journey toward. It was Mark Twain who said, Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do […]
Interview with Diane in “The Standard”, Hong Kong’s biggst circulation English daily newspaper
April 8, 2017
BMAB is the leading advocate for family literacy in Hong Kong and I consider it an honor to be part of their work. I began working in Hong Kong in 1997 and the changes I have seen are tremendous. These changes have not just happened. It takes the hard work of so many dedicated volunteers […]
Diane returns to Hong Kong by popular demand to work with Bring Me A Book Foundation
March 6, 2017
The vision of BMAB is a Hong Kong in which every child is read to, strengthening family and community bonds, and creating a love of learning, taps into how children become lifelong readers. Parental involvement is essential to a child’s success in school. When children start reading independently, parents need to become more, not […]
