What is a “cozy” book? Cozy books are reads that are upbeat, low-stakes, feel-good stories that will make you smile inside with happy endings and pleasant feels. It’s definitely time for more cozy books during winter hibernation. But where do you start with finding your next cozy read? Look no further. This quiz will pair you up with a great cozy book to nourish your spirit and soothe your frozen life....
My partner has an equally large collection that is simply alphabetical by author. That’s it. It’s easy to find anything specific you’re looking for, but it’s not ideal to browse, in my opinion. Philosophy books bump up against schlocky sci-fi pulps — it’s chaos! Every shelving system has its advantages and disadvantages, and ideally, we would recognize that and let everyone do as they will. But in reality, we are mostly nosy and judgmental people — at least I am....
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One of my favorite works of art to visit is the gigantic Picture of Dorian Gray by Ivan Albright at The Art Institute. It’s a horrifying painting, truly, but it captures Oscar Wilde’s vision so completely, and it’s so detailed that I just can’t get tired of looking at it. It was created originally as a movie prop for the 1945 film adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, but it certainly rises above those commercial beginnings....
Wonder no more! Below, you’ll find a quiz that will tell you who it is, lickety-split. You’ll find familiar student and alumni names alike. Rowena Ravenclaw may be the most famous of them all, but find out which of the seven familiar faces you are with our quiz. “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” yet no two members of Rowena’s house are the same. You can find out more about the house here at Pottermore and discover the nuances between characters that share the house’s core qualities....
Enjoy stickering up your laptop, water bottle, notebook, or wherever you put your stickers! If you need more bookish swag, we have lots more bookish goods to show you. I adore the simplicity of this rainbow bookshelf sticker, the books almost suggestions! $3
In things I wish I could unlearn, I discovered that there is a book floating around being advertised as a BWWM abuse romance. eye twitch I could have lived my entire life three times over and not wanted to know this. There are so many things wrong with this, where to begin? This is a huge difference from “bully” romance in that there is more damaging connotation behind it. The fact that it is specifically advertised as a BWWM romance is triggering and problematic AF....
Anna Quindlen did not start out as a novelist. She worked for over 20 years as a reporter, editor, and columnist from 1974 to 1995, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 for her columns in the New York Times. She left journalism to write novels in 1995 but returned a few years later to write her biweekly “Last Word” column in Newsweek while she continued to write fiction....
My love for rereading is nothing to be wondered at. My fellow Rioters have written at length about this topic. There are recommendations for books and series that you can reread. Some have written about the struggle to reread books in the face of your TBR pile staring accusingly at you (as TBR piles are wont to do). Others have been carried away by passion and talked about the joys of rereading....
The Dear America series originally held 36 titles but has since expanded and received a relaunch with updated covers in the ‘10s. The first in the series, A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple,Mayflower, 1620 was written by Kathryn Lasky and is a fairly sensible start to a series about American history. The series might have done better to start with an Indigenous perspective, though the people native to the land we now call America play a reasonably sizable role in Remember’s diary....
A: The ability to change and rebrand themselves, of course! Here’s what I mean. Books featuring a single heroine and multiple men, all of whom she is in a committed relationship with, are hardly new. You’ve probably come across them before: badly photoshopped covers, usually published by Siren, and without exception rated ‘XXX Adult.’ Sometimes the writing was good; sometimes it was as awful as you’d expect from covers like that....
I’m not going to venture any serious guesses yet. I’ve been burned before and we are all well aware that sometimes talent can’t save a terrible script (alas, poor Brandon Routh Supes, we hardly knew ‘ye). Rumors suggest Matt Reeves’s Batflick (I’m going to keep doing this, it’s the law) will be based on The Long Halloween, written by Jeph Loeb with art by Tim Sale. This particular arc is, as my husband phrased it best, less of a punch ’em up and more of a suspenseful detective story, an aspect of Batman’s career we’ve seen in comics and animation, but less so in live action....
“Samuel L. Jackson has a clear message for those who still aren’t adhering to social distancing guidelines. On Tuesday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jackson, 71, joined host Jimmy Kimmel from his home theater to read a sequel to the ever-popular children’s book Go the F— to Sleep that now reflects our current times amid the new coronavirus pandemic. With lots of yelling and strong language, Jackson stressed the importance of social distancing with a follow-up book, Stay the F— at Home....
But then my symptoms got worse, and they got worse fast. I started to have trouble focusing on my screen. My heart wouldn’t stop pounding. When I tried to sleep, my heart would rocket, and my breaths would feel short and ineffective. I felt like I was going to faint after any flight of stairs. My symptoms were consistent, and terrifying. In her memoir, Jenn Shapland links her chronic illness to her queerness, to fear, and to realness....
And then I would direct whichever adults were around to tape the episode so I could watch it again. I was a fun kid. Obsession undersells it. The show was my preschool, teaching me letters, numbers, and how to be a basically decent person. My parents attended more performances of Sesame Street Live! than they probably would have cared for. Big Bird was my boi. He always will be. Though, he’s now the world’s oldest 6-year-old....
I read my first Margaret Atwood novel about two years ago. It wasn’t the first time I had read something that she’d written. That was more than 10 years before, when a professor recommended one of her short stories during a class discussion. I wandered over to the library, looked her up, and found the collection that housed that story and several others. I found a comfortable chair in the corner, and I devoured that story and a few others....
Here’s an endless problem: should you stay up until 3:00 AM to finish that novel? It’s a great book, sure, but you also have work in the morning. Plus, you still have to endure the obligatory Worrying Hours where you must stare, wide-eyed, at the ceiling as you run down the lengthening list of existential threats facing humanity, plus that thing you once said to that person you don’t talk to anymore about the hat and the poke bowl that you think might have been insensitive to some aspect of their mother’s educational history....
Despite this increase in challenges, only 43% of the librarians who took the School Library Journal’s (SLJ) 2022 Controversial Books Survey reported facing a formal book challenge— which was only 1% higher than the last time the survey was given in 2016. In the cases of formal challenges, the challenged book stayed 71% of the time. Only 19% of challenges ended in a challenged book being taken off the shelf....
“Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.” —Hobbes And while a basic piece of flash might be fun, something tells me Hobbes would’ve felt similarly about tattoos, especially a Calvin and Hobbes tattoo. So bare that in mind as you pick your next piece of ink. Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes is a treasure-trove of adorable visuals and unusually insightful comments on everything from the evolutionary relevance of a sense of humor to special underwear....
The titles here include stand alone titles, series books (marked in a *), books from well-known YA authors, debut authors, and books that’ll be blockbuster books, as well as quieter titles. Both fiction and nonfiction are represented. This spring 2019 YA book preview isn’t comprehensive, but it’s pretty darn close. Like always, these titles were pulled from a variety of publisher catalogs, and publication dates could shift slightly from what’s been listed....
