This month, we're excited that we'll be reading A Woman Is No Man inside our book club and hosting the author, Etaf Rum, for an Ask Me Anything on September 22nd, at 9 am ET.

Kristina Naydonova is a thirteen-year-old bestselling thriller author of The Black Sisterhood Files, regular podcast speaker, and mental health advocate.

Tara Mohr — an expert on leadership and wellbeing, as well as an author and coach — offers us some valuable practical advice on how to get ourselves unhooked from praise and criticism, how to deal with our inner critic, and how to take bolder action.  

Tara Sophia Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being, and an author, educator, and coach. Tara is the author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead, published by Penguin Random House, and named a Best Book of the year by Apple’s iBooks.

Contemplating happiness, how to cultivate healthier habits, and build better relationships? You might find Gretchen Rubin's unconventional wisdom on these subjects refreshing.

Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and pathbreaking observers of happiness and human nature. She’s the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Outer Order, Inner Calm, The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, and The Happiness Project. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages.

The one thing bookworms love more than visiting bookshops is attending book festivals. If ever in doubt of how popular books are, all you need to do is attend one of the many annual book festivals held across the globe. They are an opportunity for book lovers to mingle with each other, listen to authors, buy the latest novels, get them signed, and just revel in an atmosphere that oozes bookish brilliance.

Last week, we hosted the award-winning American writer Lois Lowry for an AMA during which we asked her about the book that made her fall in love with reading, the qualities that all protagonists share in her stories, her opinion of all the new and emerging tech that's reshaping the way we take in books, how to get kids involved in reading, and much more.

As a UNESCO “City of Literature,” Dublin attracts thousands of book-loving tourists every year. Home to many a great writer over the decades, it continues to inspire up-and-coming authors with its dreamlike appeal and vintage aura. For those who want to get in the shoes of geniuses like WB Yeats and Oscar Wilde, there is nothing more exciting than a Dublin pub crawl.

Stop reading for a minute, and think. Ponder over why you like to read. Is it because books are a form of entertainment or an opportunity to learn about a subject you want to explore? Is reading a necessity, or something you do only to impress the people around you? Regardless of the reason, reading adds to our mental well-being, presenting us with possibilities to slip away for a moment from the maddening world we inhabit. There are undoubtedly several benefits of reading that we all know about but also a few that we take for granted.