Author: Laura Seabourne
With the holidays coming up, parties are on everyone’s mind. But you can only host so many traditional holiday parties before guests will probably stop coming. If you love …
After a contentious past few weeks, America seems more divided than ever, in many ways. Seeing our leaders come to terms, shake hands, play nice, and work together for the good …
With the holiday break from school looming in the too-near distance, if you’re a parent, you might be panicking right about now. You are looking forward to this break, …
Zadie Smith, at only 41 years old, is already a name many of us recognize. She hit the ground running with the publication of her first novel, White Teeth, in …
Want to make your kids’ Hanukkah especially memorable this year? Or maybe you or your kids are new to the traditions and want a comfortable, adorable way to learn …
The brilliant article by Andra Watkins about bringing libraries back into our communities includes the quote “Libraries are community service powerhouses.” Libraries are more than storerooms for books: they have …
For those parents lucky enough to have Grandma and Grandpa go to your house and then stay the entire Thanksgiving weekend, this article is irrelevant. But if you traveled this …
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. …
Every nerd *cough* literary enthusiast knows the struggle of the holiday season. We want so desperately to share the magic, mystery, and morale that we’ve enjoyed so much through …
The way that we access and enjoy books has really not changed since the year 1440 when Gutenberg invented the printing press. Books are written by starving authors in …
Although we wish kids could live completely stress-free, play-filled lives, if we want them to grow up to live stress-free (or at least relatively so) lives as adults, we …
JK Rowling just cannot cease to make Harry Potter content, and she also just cannot stop being amazing at it. We all knew that the release of the final Harry …
If you’re a reader, you know the joy and peace that comes with reading in a coffee shop. That sense of belonging: everybody is reading at a coffee shop; …
Romance is a beautiful thing–it should certainly be enjoyed and celebrated. But not in every single bit of content we absorb…. Seems unavoidable, right? Romance is everywhere, even on the …
As you’re reading, time flies, you get sucked into the magical world on the pages, and you’re interrupted and ruefully have to abandon your book… for now. But upon …
Young Adult novels: a relatively new genre that has been gaining popularity rapidly through the last few years… but mainly among it’s intended audience. Young readers have finally been …
It’s terrible but true that some of our favorite authors–some of the ones who wrote the most beautiful, moving literature–were also sexist. Almost more disturbingly, some of the most …
The more that we learn from archaeologists, the more our fantasies and fairytales are validated. Science and myth often go head to head with each other, so there’s something wildly …
Children are sponges: they listen to everything we say, how we say it, copy every move we make–they’re constantly absorbing what’s around them. For children, the phrase “You are …
Food is one of the most binding things a community has. We share our culture (“good, Southern grits and greens,” or “a traditional Philly cheesesteak” for instance) and our …