Category: Historical Fiction
Are you as familiar with literary characters as you are with your own friends? Do you know way more about classic literature than the average bookworm? We’ve compiled a …
It’s December and for college students that means winter break is around the corner. For many students, the first instinct is to crash on the couch and try to …
Christianna Marks
November 30, 2016
Author Spotlight, Crime, Crime Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Horror, Human Interest, New Releases, Reading, Suspense/Thriller, Young Adult
Do you enjoy a brooding gentleman who also happens to be tall, dark, and handsome, and not without extreme amounts of wit? If you answered yes, then allow me …
The online book store One Grand Books has an interesting question for celebrities: if you were stranded on a desert island but could bring along any ten books, which would you …
Christianna Marks
November 27, 2016
Adult, Book Lists, Charlotte Bronte, Chick Lit, Classics, Contemporary, Crime Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Human Interest, J.K. Rowling, Literary Fiction, Middle Grade, Neil Gaiman, Potterheads, Reading, Relationships, Romance, Suspense/Thriller, TBR, Travel, Young Adult
I’ve been to quite a few different countries in the few years I’ve been traveling, but one sticks out to me more than the others: England. I firmly believe …
Japan is a fascinating country filled with fantastic scenery and a rich history. Any visit to the country will likely include a mix of traditional and modern tourism. In …
YouTube Channel: Epic Reads From the Description: Meet Julie Eshbaugh, author of Ivory And Bone! Discover what she wanted to be before being an author, the unusual desk item …
As far as I’m concerned, book adaptations work better on television because there’s more time to open out the story. In films, subplots and secondary characters are often either …
America has long been portrayed as a land of immigrants. After all, the Statue of Liberty is meant to be a symbol of welcome and inclusion for people of …
The 1960’s were one of the most volatile decades in American history, marked by protests, social movements, and war. Looking back, we can determine that there were numerous highly …
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 …
Diana Gabaldon, author of the best-selling Outlander series, recently attended Entertainment Weekly’s Popfest. During a Q&A session, Gabaldon was asked a question regarding when us readers will finally get the …
The Nightingale was one of the biggest books of 2015. It spent a whopping 20 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list! The novel tells the tale of …
Sara Deeter
October 28, 2016
Chick Lit, Drama, Fantasy, Feminism, Historical Fiction, Human Interest, Romance, Unpopular Opinions, Women, Young Adult
Over two thousand years ago, the story of Persephone was born. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (written in the 600s B.C.) is the first known documentation of this Greek goddess’s dramatic …
Madeleine Thien is about as impressive as an author can get. Several of her books including the short story collection, Simple Recipes, and her fictional novel Certainty, have won literary …
Christianna Marks
October 25, 2016
Adult, Book Lists, Book Lovers, Book To Movie News, Children, Classics, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Human Interest, Middle Grade, Music, Mystery, Neil Gaiman, Potterheads, Relationships, Romance, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller, Young Adult
If you’re like me, sometimes a creepy villain, or an anti-hero, becomes your favorite character when you’re reading a book. To have a good story, you have to have …
Melanie Pitman
October 23, 2016
Book Lists, Charlotte Bronte, Classics, Drama, Faves, Historical Fiction, History, Jane Austen, Literary Fiction, Relationships, Romance, Women
Oh Matthew Crawley. It’s been 4 years since you died in that horrible car accident and left a hole in my heart. Oh, and in Lady Mary’s heart too, …
Caitlin Stiles
October 23, 2016
Adult, Authors, Book Lists, Book Lovers, Crime, Drama, Emily Bronte, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fantasy, Faves, Genre, Grab Bag, Historical Fiction, Human Interest, J.K. Rowling, Jane Austen, Literary Fiction, Mental Health, Politics, Reading, Romance, Truman Capote, Women, Young Adult
A world with only ten books would seem to be a world without color, or at least without tones and nuances. That being said, imagining a world without ten …
Asia is a vast continent that contains a variety of different countries, each with their own fascinating history. There have been many books written on each era of each …
Sara Deeter
October 17, 2016
Book Lists, Book To TV News, Classics, Drama, Historical Fiction, New Adult, Romance, Time-Travel, William Shakespeare, Women, Young Adult
In 2017, Romeo and Juliet is getting the Shondaland touch. Though more famous for adult drama than for teen romance, Shonda Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away With …
