It’s Okay to Have Different Hobbies The truth is there are plenty of adults who don’t read books for pleasure. It doesn’t mean they’re bad people. They might do a tremendous amount of reading in a professional setting and find pleasure elsewhere. They might consume print through newspapers, magazines, or online formats. Or they might get what you and I get out of books through other media: film, television, music, podcasts....
As with looking for any kind of representation in books, it’s best to come prepared with a list. Just trying to browse the shelves at your bookstore or library for new queer books is probably going to be disappointing, and keywords can be hit or miss. Some libraries may have LGBTQ books labelled with a rainbow sticker on the spine and/or put into the catalogue by representation, but unless you know that your local library or bookstore is particularly adept at highlighting queer books, it’s better to come prepared....
After busy workweeks morphed into months, I spent Groundhog Day reading in bed to celebrate the arrival of breathing room in my schedule. What. Absolute. Bliss. Then, three months passed before another opportunity arose. If submerging yourself in books with abandon sounds like a delicious respite, follow these five steps to help transform your reading vacation fantasies into reality. If you’d rather stay home, travel no further than your bed, loveseat, or reading nook....
That, of course, is our world. The mundane world where the fantastical is that which we create it to be. Some of those creations find expression in manga, and within the confines of those pages pretty much anything can happen. Despite mystical, magical settings, however, even those who spend their days with spirits and demons need roofs over their heads and need to eat, and thus need to either parlay their skills into a career or find time for a side hustle....
If you’ve ever bought a book and noticed a big giant “O” sticker slapped in the middle of its cover, then you know that celeb book clubs are all the rage. There was once a time when it really did seem like Oprah’s Book Club was the only game in town. But that was a different time. It’s 2021, and everyone has a book club. Afraid of getting FOMO? Not wanting to miss out on a single book club pick?...
Kristen Simmons has previously written the dystopian ARTICLE 5 series. She’s built careers as a therapist and Jazzercise instructor. The Deceivers is the first book in a trilogy about Vale Hall. Priya Sridhar: Our protagonist Brynn is someone working hard to get out of a bad situation, and the acknowledgements say the inspiration was the story of Brynhildr. What did you like best about the Norse mythology? Kristen Simmons: Badass warrior women!...
This list is dedicated to the astronauts and survivors who find themselves completely alone in the universe, either on a spaceship or on a different planet, like Watney from The Martian, which we left off this list because, well, everyone knows about The Martian. This kind of loneliness can span across genres, so we’ve divided this up into two categories: survival and horror. Naturally there can be some overlap between the two, but we placed the more hardcore, firmly-in-space-horror camp selections under that category in case you’re just looking to be scared absolutely silly by the things that will hunt or haunt you when you are isolated and very, very alone in the cold depths of space....
“Reading can take you pretty much anywhere you want to go,” Joziah stated in an interview with Michigan Live. His father, Keith Jason, handles the editing process. Nothing makes Keith happier than watching his son, a lifelong reader, share this passion with others. Both father and son discussed the obstacles of social media when launching the podcast and have continued those conversations, including how to handle negative comments. “You have to scroll past a lot of that and let it roll off your back,” Keith Jason says....
For fans of magic, especially the plant variety, as well as fans of fantasy and otherworldly fun, mushrooms are iconic. They’re tiny portals into entirely new worlds and possibilities: if you’ve spent any time wandering around outside in an area prone to mushrooms, you’ll discover the wide range of shapes, sizes, and colors they come in, as well as the depths and patterns in which they’ll grow. My native garden here in the midwest has a couple of spots where there are both big and small trumpets emerging from the dirt after a muggy day, and I love seeing how different each one looks and how different they look each time they emerge....
Meet Libby. The one-tap reading app from OverDrive. By downloading Libby to your smartphone, you can access thousands of eBooks and audiobooks from your library for free anytime and anywhere. You’ll find titles in all genres, ranging from bestsellers, classics, nonfiction, comics and much more. Libby works on Apple and Android devices and is compatible with Kindle. All you need is a library card but you can sample any book in the library collection without one....
Book Riot is teaming up with LitNuts for a chance to win a 1-year subscription to Kindle Unlimited! Libraries have always felt like magical places for me. The books filling library shelves are portals to new worlds. This sense of enchantment nudged me towards a career in the library field. Though as a library worker, I aspire to channel more of an Evie from The Mummy vibe than a scary spirit owl from Avatar....
Novel Gazing is your destination for all things literary fiction, bringing you news from the world of fiction, and recommendations for under the radar reads, works in translation, buzzy books, and more. Stay in the know, expand your TBR and your view of literary fiction, and, of course, have some laughs with hosts Mary Kay McBrayer and Louise Johnson. This biweekly show is available wherever you get your podcasts. Go listen to episode one where Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, is Harry Potter literary fiction?...
As audiobook sales continue to rise—up to $1.2 billion in 2019, according to a 2020 press release from the Audio Publishers Association (APA)—research and opinions on the benefits of audiobooks have been popping up in more places than ever. Whether you’re already sold, or still need a little convincing to jump on the listening bandwagon, here’s what experts are saying about the mental, physical, and emotional benefits of audiobooks....
We are thrilled to present this guest post by Margaret Atwood. Atwood, whose work has been published in thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, her novels include Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; The Year of the Flood; and her most recent, MaddAddam....
In She-Hulk, Megan Thee Stallion will be represented in a legal case by attorney Augustus Pugliese, who is being played by Josh Segarra. While talking about the episode, Segarra described how “A gentleman is being catfished by somebody that lives in another universe, let’s say.” This is the only episode Megan Thee Stallion is slated to appear in so far. Once it releases, the episode can be watched on Disney+....
Maud Blyth always longed for adventure. She expected plenty of it when she volunteered to serve as a companion on an ocean liner to help her brother unravel a magical conspiracy. What she didn’t expect was for the companion in question to turn up dead. Now she has to deal with a body, a disrespectful parrot, and the lovely, dangerously outrageous Violet Debenham. Surrounded by the open sea and a ship full of suspects, Maud and Violet must unmask a murderer and get their hands on a magical object worth killing for—without ending up dead in the water themselves....
Lily James is no stranger to literary adaptations, with Cinderella, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Pride & Prejudice and Zombies, War & Peace, and of course, Donna Meagle’s favorite book, Downton Abbey, under her belt. Armie Hammer’s adaptation credits include The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name. Ben Wheatley will direct a screenplay written by Jane Goldman (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Stardust, The Woman in Black)....
The Keller Independent School District board voted last month to ban any book that contains “discussion or depiction of gender fluidity.” “Gender fluidity,” like “Critical Race Theory,” is an existing term that conservative groups have co-opted and redefined as a fear-mongering tactic. While gender fluidity has been used for decades as a label for people who experience their gender as unfixed — changing anywhere between occasionally to daily — it’s been (incorrectly) defined by Keller ISD as: In short, it has banned any book that acknowledges the existence of transgender or nonbinary people from schools, including high schools....
In a year that has already brought us memoirs like T Kira Madden’s Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls and Jayson Greene’s Once More We Saw Stars (hold on one moment while I cry…again), it can be tempting to start looking toward 2020 to see what else is coming down the pike. But don’t count the rest of 2019 out yet. New Nonfiction Book Releases to Watch For There are a ton of new nonfiction book releases still to come before the year is out....
An original and entertaining mashup of literature and astrology for book lovers and star-watchers alike.Reading the Stars opens with an introduction to astrology, teaching you how to read your sign, what your rising sign is, and more. Then it takes that information a step further, allowing you to learn even more about yourself in a new way answering key questions: What protagonist embarks on a journey that tempts you to join them?...
