Category: Book News
Audiobooks are a convenient way for book lovers to enjoy reading on the go when their eyes are required elsewhere, such as driving in the car. Audiobooks are also …
Pretty Little Liars‘ fans are a group of self torturing individuals—myself included. Whether you happen to be into the books, or the popular television series, this murderous mysterious story …
Writing sex scenes is hard. Keeping with the old adage that “sex sells,” it seems that some authors feel the need to compensate by thrusting some very unneeded, unsexy …
Mike McCormack’s novel, Solar Bones, has won the Goldsmiths Prize for books that “break the mold or up new possibilities for the novel form.” Aside from simply being a …
People all over the world know the name Anne Frank, and her heartbreaking story. However, what many people don’t know is that one of the most famous names from …
There are some things in life that we all seem to share a compulsion to do. Us clever adults have managed to turn many things into respectable, adult versions. …
Guinness World Records are pretty astonishing. People do some wild, creative, and down right crazy things for the coveted record holder title. However, its not often that a world …
Raise your hand if you read the delicious series of juvenile horror stories called Goosebumps when you were younger. Me too! Goosebumps weren’t the first books written by R.L. …
I’m not sure if you’re anything like me, but if you are, learning about space can be…well…dry. Don’t get me wrong, tons of information about our universe is mind …
It is a fantastic time to be a Star Wars fan: A new trilogy is off to a great start, the anthology movies are about to kick off, and …
Amazon helped pioneer e-reading with the Kindle. Now, the retail giant is once again changing the way people read, this time by releasing an app that lets kids read …
We have another very young author on the rise! 8-year old Katie Pryor has been writing books ever since her own mother, Annie Pryor, wrote her own book when …
Plenty of fans were shocked to find out that the final episode of season three of Showtime’s Penny Dreadful was in fact the conclusion of the show in it’s …
When you think of science fiction novels, usually it’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds that come to mind as the firsts for the genre. Author …
Melanie Pitman
November 10, 2016
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Monday evening, at roughly 10pm EST, Jack Rabinovitch announced the winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a beaming Madeleine Thien graciously accepted the honor. Her novel, Do …
OMG! OMG! OMG! *Do not worry about any spoilers here! I believe in keeping the surprises alive. Plus I haven’t even finished the latest released season of Game of …
If you’re like the rest of the world, you now know the story of Alexander Hamilton by heart. In fact, you can probably sing a good two plus hours …
In December, a facsimile of an early Charlotte Brontë manuscript of Jane Eyre will be published by Éditions des Saints Pères. The manuscript, written in Charlotte Brontë’s own flowing …
Next year, Argentinian conceptual artist Marta Minujin has plans to construct a massive installation in order to promote intellectual freedom and to protest literary censorship in Germany and around …
Tokyo is the incredible capital city of Japan. The city houses 35 million people and a plethora of attractions to suit any tourist’s needs from food, architecture, temples, gardens …