Author: Rebecca Ogle
Five years ago, I was so tired of winter that I loaded up weather.com and surveyed the United States map for cities that were shaded warm yellow to orange. …
Goodnight, same-sex couple. Goodnight, rebel. Goodnight, groundbreaking writer who died at age 42 after surgery because she goofed around with the doctors. Sound familiar, if a tad unconventional? According …
Kids and teachers are returning to school from holiday break. How will they be spending their time? If Sara Holbrook were in charge, they wouldn’t be practicing for standardized …
“‘Honey,'” she remembers her aunt telling her one night when was 13, “‘Negroes can’t be writers.'” That was in 1960. We’ve come a long way since then, and we …
Rebecca Ogle
January 8, 2017
Book News, Book Publishing Companies, Classics, Contemporary, Drama, Gillian Flynn, Literary Fiction, New Releases, Performing Arts, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
Last year seemed like the year of celebrity deaths. Coincidentally, it was also the 400-year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Hogarth Shakespeare pulled out all the publishing stops to commemorate …
Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney had a dream, a place, and the funds: An Unlikely Story opened in Plainville, Massachusetts in May 2015. This is my first time back …
Do you like boozey British comedy? Then you need to watch Dylan Moran’s Black Books. It aired on BBC from 2000-2004, and it’s like The IT Crowd cross-pollinated It’s Always Sunny In …
It goes like this: Make a resolution. Try to keep it. Do the thing. Fail at doing the thing. Quit trying to do the thing. Try again next year. …
Tonight was soup night at our house, and on a December weekend I doubt we were the only family warming ourselves up this way. With the holiday season, it’s …
An annual subscription to a publication or service is a gift that lasts all year. Plus, ’tis the season for discount offers that slash cover prices and include swag …
Have you ever wanted to skip past all the pesky words and syntax that constitute a novel? Are SparkNotes just too in-depth for you? Don’t you want to judge …
Hi, my name is Rebecca, I’m 28 years old, and I’ve never read a romance novel. Ever. I mean, I’ve read classic literary romances like Wuthering Heights and A Room With …
Do you have $3.85 million? May I have it, please? Fine. In that case, how about a mansion that once served as Charles Dickens’s summer home? That price includes …
If you read while your family is over for the holidays, I’m guessing you don’t exactly get along, or that something stressful beyond anyone’s control is affecting everyone. So, …
I don’t know about you, but I’m excited for Fantastic Beasts. I mean, like, wearing my knee-high phoenix socks excited. If you’re all caught up on your Newt Scamander reading, here …
The United States has a new president-elect, and half the country is reeling. But we have a few months before he takes office, and now that the mudslinging and …
Less than 1% of Americans have served in the armed forces during the most recent wars. That’s the smallest proportion in United States history. The rest of us are …
L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, like any good fairy story, has a lot to say about the real world. As a child, I glossed over many of these wry …
Beginning in the 1870s, more than 200 women have “sought, been nominated, or received votes for the office of President.” The Highest Glass Ceiling by Ellen Fitzpatrick hones in on three …
My senior year of college, I finally confessed something to my professor: I didn’t like reading. I felt like a fraud. Aren’t students of literature supposed to love their …
