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Who would win a battle: Harry Potter or Darth Vader? What were Emma’s favorite books when she was a kid? What’s the best thing about playing Hermione Granger? These are …
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood was originally published in 1985, and got a movie adaptation in 1990 starring the late Natasha Richardson. The movie didn’t receive much acclaim, but Hulu …
Sara Deeter
May 8, 2017
Author Spotlight, Autobiography, Book News, Business, History, Literary Quotes, Maya Angelou, News, Politics, WTF
Because…reasons? Ivanka’s new release, Women Who Work, has already received a lot of criticism from, well, women who work. Real women. Not women whose biggest struggle is having to choose between …
I work as a tutor with students of all ages, and it amazes me how reliant many of my students are on spell checker and auto correct. I’m even …
From my earlier post on Bookstagram, you’ll know it took me some time to figure out how it worked. I soldiered on, and with not a little help from cyberspace, …
There’s a call for diverse books. We need them because research shows that by age 6, girls think they’re less intelligent than their boy peers. Children rarely see people …
The Hebrew name for Holocaust Remembrance Day is Yom Hashoah, and this year it was observed on Monday, April 24th. JTA, or the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, sought book recommendations …
Everybody’s favorite little red-headed spitfire is back! Netflix is rebooting L. M. Montgomery’s childhood classic, Anne of Green Gables, and it looks spectacular. They just released the first trailer for …
For Hena Khan, author of It’s Ramadan, Curious George as well as new release Amina’s Voice, going to school meant that teachers and students mangled her name on a …
Ernest Hemingway wrote, “It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg Address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of physics, of …
“Meet Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a famous entrepreneur. He is also a television personality. In 2015, Trump surprised many people when he decided to run for president. In …
From the very first day of my freshman year at Yale, my professors bombarded me with reading suggestions: “Oh, this is such a great book, I think you’d really …
For centuries, we have been at war with what is considered ‘proper’ literature. Since time before the common public could read, there has been someone trying to tell us …
We all know the feeling of visiting a bookstore and picking out an exciting cover from the section marked ”bestsellers.” Such a label means that, most likely, they’re good …
The setting of a novel can be as important as the characters, because it can shape the way they behave and react, which drives the plot forward. Several books …
YouTube Channel: Bookerly Which books on your TBR intimidate you? Why? Featured image via This Splendid Shambles
Have you ever wondered what kind of reader you are? Well, wonder no more: this personality quiz will tell you exactly what your reading habits and preferences say about …
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that a woman’s privacy rights are “broad enough to encompass the right to terminate her pregnancy.” Now, despite the decades …
YouTube Channel: Book Riot From the Description: This week Rincey wants to hear about what book series you are in the middle of that you have fallen a bit …
In the closest ever Senate vote, Betsy DeVos was confirmed today as Trump’s Education Secretary. But it’s not just senators who are concerned about DeVos’s ability to effectively serve …