vocabulary

My name is Madhu. I am an Indian by virtue of birth and upbringing, and I live in Sweden (Stockholm) at the moment. I have grown up with books. My grandfather loved buying books and encouraged anyone between semi-interested to interested, to borrow from his collection. When they did not return...

I've noticed I sometimes use "to" when a reader corrects it to "at". But sometimes the correction doesn't sound right to me and I can't figure out why. Examples: While describing looking at paintings, I used both "at" and "to": "She stared out at us, holding a glass ball in front of her...