Author: Nicole Nolan
It cannot be denied that fall has arrived. The signs are everywhere: the leaves tumbling in a gorgeous array of oranges and reds, yellows, and browns, littering pavements and …
Everywhere, fans of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore can barely contain their excitement at the promised four-episode Netflix revival of Gilmore Girls, all airing on 25 November. Entitled Gilmore Girls: …
Dan Brown’s Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon, is to tackle a fifth mystery in the series next fall. Robert Langdon has been on the wrong side of the Illuminati in …
It’s thrilling to hear that South Korea is becoming a more prominent player on the global literary scene. As a fan of Japanese literature, this expanded acceptance of an …
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one can be neither a student nor a lover of literature without at least once reading (and completing) a Dickens novel. This …
Everyone’s starting to question whether Reese Witherspoon might not be the biggest book mogul in Hollywood. Indeed, The Wall Street Journal is dubbing her a literary “power broker,” as with …
Last year, to mark the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, Alice in Wonderland, Princeton University Press released a version replete with rare illustrations by eminent 20th Century Surrealist …
We all come to favor certain authors for a myriad of divergent reasons. However, a common denominator among readers is a touch of intrigue surrounding an author, questions unanswered …
If, like me, you are a serious booklover, then you don’t need any prompting to spend hours in a bookstore (indeed, friends and loved ones probably beg you not …
There comes a time in every bibliophile’s life when we need must find a book club. When we have left the world of academia behind us – the long …
Eighty years after they were written by the author of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s lost collection, I’d Die for You, is finally to gain the readership it deserves. Unable to be …
In the world of books, there are book lovers and then there are book collectors. The former may love books and buy and display as many of them that …
The Washington D.C. based Pew Research Center recently released their reading data for the year. Shockingly, only 73 percent of people in the United States attempted to read one, …
Gothic-Horror, a particular sub-genre of Gothic fiction, offers readers a potent literary elixir: a blend of horror and death, mystery and fear, oftentimes magic and mayhem, and of course romance. …
Nicole Nolan
September 8, 2016
Book Lists, Feminism, Human Interest, Mental Health, More, Reading, Relationships, Self-Help, TBR, Women
It’s a strange decade, one’s 30’s. To start with, there’s the looming of that first year when you step from one camp into another: from the relatively carefree, “I …
It is the task of the writer to enthrall his or her readers, to evoke a sense of place or occasion so powerfully, so successfully, that readers visualize themselves …
You knew it was coming. You had your summer reading list: the personal one, with its amazing contemporary titles that you’ve absolutely devoured this holiday, but still have dozens …
The school years are tough, no more so than if you’re diagnosed with dyslexia. The problem is many people assume reading is a natural trait for humans. In fact, …
“Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.” With these words of Walter Moer you have encapsulated the …
As my friends know, if you can’t find me in our designated meeting spot, there is a 99.9% certainty that I can be found – lost but happy – …