After reading countless interviews with celebrity entrepreneurs who have ‘made it’ there is one piece of advice that is constantly dolled out: read more. From Bill Gates to Mark Cuban, …
My mother was obsessed with Agatha Christie when I was a child; I can remember barely being old enough to read and pulling her books out of boxes, spooking …
A Casper, Wyoming bookstore is making headlines as it has enforced a new rule. One that will surely take customers back to the days of when technology didn’t completely …
Some days we all just need to get away from our everyday life. Most of us aren’t able to just book a plane ticket and go off on an …
Melanie Pitman
November 13, 2016
Adult, Author Spotlight, Authors, Biography, Book Lists, Contemporary, Faves, Memoir, Music, News, Poetry, Romance
When I read the news of Leonard Cohen’s death, my breath caught in my throat. It had never occurred to me that this man, one of our culture’s greatest …
YouTube Channel: CCTV America From the Description: In a world of smartphones and tablet devices, reading physical books is now somewhat of a marginalized activity in China. But in Beijing, …
Eleanor Hicks
November 12, 2016
Book Lists, Charles Dickens, Classics, Crime Fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, George R.R. Martin, Horror, J.K. Rowling, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, WTF, Young Adult
Death comes for us all, including our favorite book characters. Sometimes, those fictional deaths are heartbreaking. Othertimes, they’re deserved. And sometimes…well, sometimes they’re just plain weird. And kind of …
We have another very young author on the rise! 8-year old Katie Pryor has been writing books ever since her own mother, Annie Pryor, wrote her own book when …
The legend of King Arthur is a gift to story-telling. There are so many versions, and not just in literature. I was introduced to Arthur, at age six or …
NaNoWriMo is one of the main events that bookworms and aspiring writers look for during the warm, chill month of November. Even if you don’t plan to take it …
Lisa Cutts is a full-time detective constable and author of crime novels. She answers procedural questions in a monthly column for Writing Magazine. Her first novel, Never Forget, is the …
Five months ago, the Fort Worth city council made a monumentally tragic decision: they decided to fire Browser the cat, employee at the local public library. Browser was adopted from …
Plenty of fans were shocked to find out that the final episode of season three of Showtime’s Penny Dreadful was in fact the conclusion of the show in it’s …
The U.S. certainly seems to be in a tense time these days, between riots and protests over police shootings and newly erupting marches and unrest over this week’s election …
As Potterheads count down the days for yet another release, we can’t help but wonder- will it be worth the hype? After many fans felt disappointed with July’s release …
For many years, the Barnes & Noble flagship store located on 5th Avenue in New York City proudly held the title of the “World’s Largest Bookstore,” until it shut its doors …
YouTube Channel: Splash News TV From the Description: Katy Perry revealed that her devout Christian minister parents forbade her from reading the popular Harry Potter books when she was growing up. And …
Cierra Loften
November 11, 2016
Adult, Book Lists, Book Lovers, Drama, Dystopian, Family, Fantasy, History, New Releases, Relationships, Romance, TBR, Young Adult
2016 is slipping away from our fingertips quicker than we ever imagined! And while this November will certainly be one that will remain etched in the minds of millions …
The entire election cycle was mired in controversy and a clear pathway for hatred and prejudice became unbelievably acceptable. That is not to say that the entire constituency of …
Libaries are one of the most important resources a community can have. Recently, these sources of literary opportunity have been constantly under battle to keep themselves afloat. Between continued fights …