Reading for pleasure rates are shockingly low in young people. So we should all get behind a new drive to turn them into avid readers. Why not start with books about art?

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was an avid writer, a proud mother and a hobby guitarist who won an undergraduate poetry prize in 2020, online records show.

Reading has been a habit of mine since I was young. I have maintained it since then. I try to reserve the last part of the day, often late at night, for reading. This past year was no exception.

St. Vinnie’s on Division Avenue in Eugene isn’t just another thrift store – it’s a bibliophile’s paradise disguised as a secondhand shop, with enough books to make any avid reader’s heart skip several ...