Viggo Mortensen Not only is he well-known for the role he played in one of the most successful literary film adaptations of all time, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but he owns his own publishing company. Mortensen founded Perceval Press in 2002, and it specializes in books of art, critical writing, and poetry. His goal is to publish books that might otherwise go unnoticed by more traditional publishing outlets and to do so in a cost-effective manner....
There are lots more options aside from books or book boxes, though! If you have a bookish mom, these gifts will be the perfect match. There are some personalized options in the mix (though you might need to plan ahead more for those), some decor, clothes and accessories, and of course a sprinkling of miscellaneous bookish fun. Mother’s Day gift recommendations can get a little same-y: not every mom has the same interests, after all....
This was Kristallnacht, or “the night of broken glass.” It was a turning point, marking the change from “merely” anti-Semitic rhetoric and laws, to actual violent actions. The Holocaust didn’t happen in one fell swoop; Hitler slowly added more and more restrictions; started lying more and more; and kept on riling up his base. The Nazis built up to the mass round-ups, deportation, and mass murder of Jews, gay people, Roma, the disabled, and anyone who didn’t fit their ideal....
Some fast facts about the Pulitzer Prizes: Created in the early 1900s, the Pulitzer Prizes were set up through Joseph Pulitzer’s will. He was an influential journalist, newspaper publisher, and eventually a New York congressman. The Pulitzer Prize Board makes important decisions, like recommending the winners. Columbia University continues to be home for the awards, per Pulitzer’s wishes. The Pulitzer Prize winners announcement is annual, every April. The prize has gone through some changes over time, including the addition of award categories....
— Marisa: A Questionable Shape was more a philosophical treatise on the ethics of living with and controlling the undead than it was a novel. That said, it was totally working. Casey: Yeah, I was explaining it to someone as a road/quest/survival story, but with undead. To call it a zombie novel, which is the easy descriptor, is selling it short. A Questionable Shape isn’t an action movie with zombie headshots....
Which makes it a pretty interesting experiment to find read-alikes! While the show is, in many ways, singular, there are a lot of books like The Sopranos that take up similar themes, or channel similar vibes, and I can’t wait to dig into them with you. And while each of these books shares a different “something” with the show, they do tend to fall into two big categories: family stories (with crime) and crime stories (sometimes with family)....
In this time when everything is on the line, when the Long Night has passed, the Iron Throne is anyone’s to lose, and everyone values knowledge…and strength. But at this point, all the survivors are strong, so it’s really wisdom on which every competitor relies. Do you have it in you to be the Hand of the Queen? Or maybe Grand Maester of the Wall? Take the hardest Game of Thrones quiz, below, to find out!...
You can color to get into the Halloween spirit or to unwind from a fun night of ghost stories and treats. Either way, you don’t have to go searching for your Halloween coloring dreams. The list below has coloring pages for kids and adults as well as free and pages that cost a small fee. And you don’t have to leave your house! All of them are available to download and print right from home....
He described his latest series, Be the Change, as a “brilliant interactive and accessible resources for kids to learn about the importance of empathy and mental health — so they can be the change they want to see.” Other children’s authors wrote about his influence on them on social media: Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books. — Kiran Millwood Hargrave (@Kiran_MH) November 17, 2022 — Sarah Crossan (@SarahCrossan) November 17, 2022
I’m here to help. I find the genre really fascinating, especially after growing up with one parent who was a major William Gibson fan. What is cyberpunk? Cyberpunk is the combination of high or advanced technology and a more broken down social order or gritty society (hence the cyber, and the punk). So fancy advanced technology plus dystopian elements equals cyberpunk. The term itself comes from a short story by Bruch Bethke, Cyberpunk....
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My nearest comic book store is an hour’s drive from my house. I try to take my niece to Free Comic Book Day, but I missed it this year. Buying comics from an actual brick and mortar store is not an option for me. It’s not an option for most people (find your nearest comic book store here). So how do you get your hands on comic books if you don’t live near a comic book store?...
These are my five favorite graphic memoirs from 2019. And hey, if you’re trying to reach a goal of a certain number of books finished this year, these are super fast reads to get you there! Five 2019 Graphic Memoirs Gender Queer By Maia Kobabe Maia Kobabe never envisioned eirself writing a memoir, but sometimes the things we least want to investigate are exactly the places we need to go for our art....
But an important part of Hamilton has been its educational programming, known as Hamilton Education Program or EduHam, that brought American history and the musical into Title 1 schools, or a school with a large concentration of low-income students that receive supplemental funding. The program started in October 2015, the same year the musical premiered, showing an early commitment to education for the show. After having the opportunity to see the final EduHam in Chicago before Hamilton closes on January 5th, we’re going to dive into this impressive program....
We are living in a world where politicians and parents don’t want their kids to be “uncomfortable” — in the classroom, in the bookstore, in the library. And excuse my language, but that’s bullshit. Education and books are supposed to make you uncomfortable. Supposed to challenge you and make you reconsider long-held beliefs that perhaps need to be evaluated. Supposed to provide information for you to explore, examine, and reflect upon — and then form your own thoughts....
I’ve been wanting to write a post about TV characters who read for quite a while now, but I haven’t been able to figure out how to spin it. Unfortunately for me, I didn’t come up with the brilliant Simpsons literary references idea. A list of characters who frequently read onscreen didn’t feel exactly right, nor did lamenting the lack of bookish characters in modern TV shows (mostly because I’m not very well-versed in modern TV shows)....
YA. For awhile, I avoided it, erroneously believing that I was too old for it. I’ve since determined that you’re never too old for the things you enjoy and have truly embraced my fondness for YA. Most of my current adoration for the category is all the developments that have been made for it since I became the target audience, and it all comes down to one word: diversity. There is so much more of it in today’s YA books and it’s not just relegated to race or ethnicity....
As a teenager, works like Pride and Prejudice were mostly known to me from the little screen and word of mouth. If anyone asked if I had read Oliver Twist, I smiled and answered in the affirmative, despite only having watched the musical. Then, in the summer after my high school graduation, I decided to dabble a little bit. It was 2012. Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris had recently come out, and I was obsessed with the Lost Generation....
His books were a fixture in my mother’s school library, the books in constant rotation as kids who patiently waited for them to be returned picked them up almost as soon as they hit the shelf. The covers of his books were always among the most well worn, any paperbacks loved to velvet softness around the edges. I can’t count the number of times I sat through a book report presentation of Hatchet....
I will never forget the crushing remorse I felt after reading — and loving — Tina Fey’s Bossypants. I was coming out of a theory-addled grad school haze, and Bossypants was literally the first time I had ever read a bestseller while it was still a bestseller. It was actually fun! And hilarious! And I could actually talk about it with other people who were reading it at the exact same time I was!...
