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Award-winning writer with a demonstrated history of working in the online media industry. Skilled in Journalism, Storytelling, Proofreading, Teaching, and Social Media. Author of "Unlocking Worlds: A Reading Companion for Book Lovers."
I write about books, authors, and the reading life. My mission is to encourage reading to cultivate empathy, deepen connection, and complicate our understanding of human experience.
I love books. I love reading them, collecting them, talking about them, writing about them. I've even been known to hug a book, now and again. I am that person who is forever shoving books into friends' hands, urging, "Read this!" I have an "Oh!
AUG 28, 2016 - Sally Allen is an award-winning author and Ph.D. who has taught at prestigious universities, including her current position at Post University in Connecticut. Her most recent book, "Unlocking Worlds," is available at www.sallyallenbooks.com, Amazon and other booksellers nationwide.
Have you ever disappeared between the pages of a book and felt the anxieties of your immediate world fade to the edges? You emerge, 25 or 50 or 100 pages later, feeling renewed, refreshed, and ready to move ahead, fueled with the insights gained through vicariously experiencing an alternate reality.
By Sally Allen Every day around the world, thousands of people who boast little to no scholarly training in art history walk into museums. Despite this potential absence of knowledge about the proper way to interpret art, visitors are welcomed into these museums. They are, at least tacitly, encouraged to experience the art on the walls.
Details Published on Friday, 03 February 2017 19:44 Written by Sally Allen Jason: There are hundreds of great books in here ranging from the classics - Wuthering Heights - to the real classics, Valley of the Dolls. Lorelai: Nice taste. -Season 4, Episode 10 Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in The Nanny and the Professor (i.e.
When my son was in preschool, he and I frequently participated in the Westport Library's storytime programs. The featured stories-usually starring merchandising-friendly anthropomorphic animals or vehicles dreamed up by Disney marketing executives-were relentlessly cheerful, with lessons learned and happy endings for all.
OK so the first rule about lists of this kind is that they're never definitive. There are simply too many excellent books by women, for women for a list of 10 to hit on everything in just one post. That said, what's so excellent about the books on this list?
By Sally Allen When it comes to reading to young children, advocacy abounds. I stumble on at least one article on the daily - whether in a magazine or newspaper, on a blog or website - emphasizing the importance of reading aloud for developing crucial early literacy skills and encouraging parent/child bonds.
Predictably, the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the rehearsal script for the play of the same name currently running in London, generated passionate fervor not seen since, well, the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows nine years ago.
Growing up between two cultures, Greek and American, heightened my awareness, from an early age, of America not only as a physical place but also a shifting, continually evolving idea. While Greece meant shared history and traditions, America meant reinventing and coexisting, too often uneasily, among diverse histories and traditions.