Category: News
It’s almost here!!! On May 2nd, A Court of Wings and Ruin, the third and final installment in Sarah J. Maas’ Court of Thorns and Roses trilogy will finally be …
Do dusty books drive you nuts? Every now and then, I’ll go to pull out something I haven’t read in a while, only to have my nasal passages assaulted …
At only seven years old, Bana al-Abed became famous all over the world as she tweeted from the wartorn city of Aleppo, Syria. Bana will now be writing a …
Previously unseen letters from Sylvia Plath to her friend and former therapist give a personal account of the domestic abuse she experienced at the hands of her husband and …
As any true Harry Potter fan knows, “muggle,” the term for a non-magical person (and an identity that I refuse to accept), was added to the Oxford English Dictionary …
Reading is, for a lot of us, a way to escape for a little while. However, it’s often impossible for others to be able to do so if they …
In 2011, as he was prepping his AP English students for the exam, high school teacher Eric Kallenborn had an idea. What if, instead of simply assigning essays on Shakespeare …
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the two-part play designed to be a sequel to J.K. Rowling’s bestselling Harry Potter series, just shattered a British performing arts record. It …
This April, all booklovers – readers, authors, librarians, booksellers, teachers, parents — are challenged to start Reading Without Walls. What is Reading Without Walls? It’s a national initiative which …
I’m a proofreader in my professional life, so I’m hyper-attuned to noticing pesky spelling and grammatical errors—I have to be or I’d be pretty lousy at my job. Unfortunately, that …
We all love Harry Potter, and given half the chance, we’d all be delighted to go to the Wizarding World for a term at Hogwarts- but how about for …
There are some people in the world with some, shall we say, unconventional beliefs. It’s easy for those of us who look upon these views with skepticism to be …
An expert in antique books and manuscripts was left trembling after one find during Antique Roadshow. The item was a 17th-century notebook titled Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragedies. The author …
A large chain of Dutch stores is catching heat for a very offensive image appearing in one of their coloring books. The page in the coloring book depicts Adolf Hitler, …
The TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale premieres on Hulu on April 26th, leaving you less than a month to read or (re-read) the dystopian novel before you …
In case you haven’t noticed by now, the Republican Party’s attempt to pass healthcare reform has crashed and burned. So of course every late night comedian has taken it …
Time to show your appreciation! April 4th is National School Librarian Day, which means it’s time to recognize the amazing work of thousands of men and women around the …
If at first you don’t succeed then try, try again. The saying might as well be the motto for new writers trying to break into the industry. It takes …
Melanie Pitman
March 31, 2017
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Drum roll please…………. After four days of facts, emotion, discussion, and debate….. Fifteen Dogs has been crowned the 2017 Canada Reads champion. It is THE book that Canada needs to …
Talk about accountability! The Daily Show is literally constructing a brick-and-mortar library in New York City just to store Donald Trump’s (many) comments on Twitter. This library will be …