But, as I think you’ll see below in my list of examples of the keeping a secret romance trope, there are a ton of legitimate, sympathetic, and fascinating reasons one (or sometimes both!) parties in a romance novel might be hiding something from one another. I talked a bit in my last romance tropetonite post about how one reason I love enemies to lovers is that it provides a lot of fodder from believable obstacles....
As a lifelong book lover, you may think the solution to this is easy: read before bed. Isn’t that what all readers do? Oddly, this has never been a part of my routine. I’ve typically read on commutes, listened to audiobooks while doing chores, and crammed a lot of my reading into 24 hour readathons. I always intend to read before bed. It sounds so luxurious. Sitting in bed with the blankets tucked around you, reading by the light of lamp....
Almost 40 years earlier, in 1982, designer Ken White was asked to design the new location of the Gothic Bookshop at Duke University, located in Durham North Carolina. White wanted the bookshop to reflect the gothic-style buildings of the university. He used custom-designed and hand-carved wood, having been inspired by his research of medieval churches. With this, White created a truly remarkable bookstore experience, and he went on to co-author a book on bookstore design titled Independent Bookstore Planning and Design....
I don’t think I remember a time when someone wasn’t talking about the banned book list. One might not think that public schools in Texas would take issue with such a list. One might even presume it would be the librarian’s bible given the geography, but I found the exact opposite to be true. From the time we were learning to read, the banned book list was a topic of discussion....
At Book Riot, we cover censorship of books quite a bit. We even have a weekly round up of censorship news. While book challenges are nothing new, they increased dramatically in 2021, especially targeting LGBTQ books, sex education books, and books by and about people of color. Whenever we report on these book challenges, we’ll get responses that — whether they use the term or not — refer to the Streisand effect....
The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas. It’s there that young widow Laurel Plummer and Deputy Thatcher Hutton will find themselves on the opposite sides of a moonshine war, where the blood flows as freely as the whiskey....
Today, the Morgan holds a truly eye-popping trove of literary treasures. We’re talking three Gutenberg bibles, Shakespeare first folios, drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, manuscripts with marginalia by Toni Morrison, and on and on. If Indiana Jones ever had to steal an ancient scroll, this is the kind of place he would steal it from. It began as Morgan’s private study, and when that overflowed, a stately new building complete with an ornate reading room was designed by the famous architectural firm McKim, Meade, and White....
And boy, does that answer tell you a lot. Is this person edgy or boring? Do they keep up with the latest in the literary world or do they stick to their tried-and-true genre? Have they even read a book since high school? Without further ado, here are the books that are the biggest red flags if you see them on someone’s dating profile. Along those same lines is any classic that wasn’t so commonly assigned in school: anything by Bret Easton Ellis (mega yikes if it’s American Psycho), Ayn Rand, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S....
So what are the states that draw in authors, and which ones are sorely lacking literary representation? You can place your guesses now (sheer population size is a good place to start), but Crossword Solver has done the work of tallying up all the U.S. location tags on Goodreads, so let’s dive into their results. Unsurprisingly, New York takes the number one spot with 4,887 books, and more than half of the books set there take place in New York City....
Fiction About Social Media Influencers 1. The Circle by Dave Eggers If you’re looking for an excuse to quit the internet and become a woods-dwelling hermit, The Circle is it. This is an absolutely chilling novel about a woman named Mae Holland who goes to work for a powerful (think: Google) Silicon Valley company that quickly takes over her life. And I mean, her entire life. It’s all about the things we give up for the sake of convenience and digital connectivity....
“She’s only 11 years old, but Michelle Nkamankeng has already written 9 books. Meet South Africa’s kid author.”I love that she questioned why kids didn’t write children’s books and then wrote and published a children’s book. “Alexis Daria’s You Had Me at Hola had me at Latinx representation, sexy soapy plot, and a meta-telenovela addicting enough to actually get picked up by Netflix IRL. This book fizzes with sex, betrayal, lies, and family drama — but the good news is, it comes without an actual telenovela’s requisite cliffhangers and tragedies....
You never know what’s out to get you. Though you might think you’re safe from monsters and menaces, everyday objects can turn against you, too. A mysterious microwave. A threatening board game. A snowman that refuses to melt.Master storyteller Josh Allen brings thirteen nightmare scenarios to life in this page-turning collection that’s perfect for budding horror junkies. In his wondrous world, danger waits behind every doorway . . . even in the most ordinary places....
A hundred years ago, a publishing controversy was the sort of thing that happened when people got a bit too excited about love scenes in novels. Times have really changed — these days, a sexy novel wouldn’t raise many eyebrows. Rock on, Jilly Cooper. Publishing has a golden sort of veneer to it, a legacy perhaps of the hundreds of years of book and pamphlet publishing by community gatekeepers and tastemakers....
The Walt Whitman Birthplace will be celebrating the release of the 2019 Bicentennial Walt Whitman stamp in September. This is merely one of many celebratory events they’ve been hosting throughout the year. These other events include an exhibit of objects that used Whitman’s image commercially in Walt Whitman’s Prose and Poetry in Products and Advertisements, a Bicentennial Birthday Weekend celebration, and a Library of Congress Facsimile Exhibit and Lecture. The New York Public Library got in on the Whitman celebration....
There are over 200 bookshops listed on it, covering all areas of the UK. Most of these shops deliver. I’ve lived in the UK for eight years now and I’ve made it a mission to try and visit as many indie bookshops as I can. I’ve talked about amazing bookshops in the UK before, like Voltaire and Rousseau in Glasgow (sadly not on the list yet). I got lost in that place for what seemed like seconds but ended up being much, much longer....
Somehow, a rabbit was introduced, followed by a kitten (he was found outside!), and then a foster kitty. If you’ve done the math, that comes out to roughly 12 cats and 16 rabbits in my house. While the rabbit has an unfortunate habit of enjoying my books for snacks—and she has very unfavorable opinions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix out of the series—my animals for the most part coexist well with the ever-growing, close-to-tumbling, towers of books....
This quiz is here to help you wade your way through all the upcoming movies and television shows so that you can pinpoint the one that’s going to be the most exciting for you. Sure, maybe you’ll get around to watching all of them. But it’s nice to target one to get the most excited about. So pull up a chair, take this quiz, and find out what movie/tv adaptation you should get excited about watching in 2022....
So what’s all this about “social reading?” Why would a new web site devote itself to that undefined act? Fortunately, Book Riot doesn’t intend to leave the phrase “social reading” undefined. I’m writing my inaugural post in an effort to start a conversation about that definition. Whoops! I just committed “social reading.” The most astute of you already know that reading has been social in nature for some millennia, now....
Last year, Star Wars fans were teased with news of a new project: “Project Luminous.” Eventually, it was revealed that this would be Star Wars: The High Republic, a completely new era of Star Wars stories set approximately 200 years before The Phantom Menace. The High Republic is a sprawling interconnected world that includes comics, children’s books, YA novels, and adult novels from many different publishers, including IDW Publishing, Marvel, Del Rey, and Disney Lucasfilm Press....
But what makes a beach read? And how did the term come to be in the first place? The History of the Beach Read The term “beach read” began as a marketing tool for publishers. According to research by The Guardian, the first uses were in the summer of 1990. Thirty years later, almost every magazine and website publishes summer book lists. In publishing, the term used to refer to the blockbuster books published in summer....
