Read a book based solely on its setting--take a journey of the pages and complete task #9 of the 2025 Read Harder Challenge! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-04-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
Ah yes. Literature. The vehicle through which we may explore faraway lives we would have otherwise never imagined. From my little, rugged armchair, I can witness forbidden love in the 18th century. Peek into a bustling kitchen in New York City. Discover the dramatic betrayal that fractured the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-02-14 12:00:00 UTC ]
Are you the kind of fantasy fan that can correctly identify a fantasy book with only the most vague description? Find out with this quiz! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-11-02 10:35:00 UTC ]
I challenge any romance reader brave enough to test their knowledge. Can you guess the romance book based on a vague description? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-09-27 10:31:00 UTC ]
Are you a fantasy mega-fan? Well, let's put it to the test: Can you guess these fantasy books based only on their 1-star reviews? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-08-21 10:35:00 UTC ]
Finding a Good Story in Every Corner: A Conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa, by Anderson Tepper Interviews [email protected] Mon, 07/24/2023 - 15:01 © Rosa CunhaOver the past fifteen years, I’ve had the pleasure of crossing paths with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-07-24 20:01:34 UTC ]
You've seen every movie on Shudder and have a whole bookshelf devoted to King, but can you guess the horror book based on its 1-star reviews? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-04-20 10:34:00 UTC ]
"I hope you like calendars that you never understand" and "Dull soup": can you match the sci-fi novel to its 1-star reviews? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-02-21 11:37:00 UTC ]
Agent Jeffrey Hermann argues that changing a book based on a sensitivity read can make it less authentic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Climate Book will include contributions from scientist Katharine Hayhoe, economist Thomas Piketty and novelist Margaret AtwoodGreta Thunberg is releasing a new book this autumn, which aims to offer a “global overview of how the planet’s many crises connect”.“I have decided to use my platform... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-03-31 16:00:03 UTC ]
Who says you shouldn't judge a book based on its cover? The cover has an important job: to capture your attention. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-09-24 10:36:00 UTC ]
Hodder Studio has picked up Nobody Panic, a companion book to the podcast created by comedians Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-10 13:26:13 UTC ]
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen and former President Barack Obama have written a book based on their podcast conversations, to be published globally by Penguin Random House in partnership with Higher Ground. The book chronicles, as Obama said in the book’s introduction, the men’s “shared... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-07-22 15:49:00 UTC ]
Last Thursday, with confirmed cases of COVID-19 again rising across the US, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general, issued his first advisory since the Biden administration took office: health mis- and disinformation, he said, has prolonged the pandemic, not least by exposing Americans to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-07-21 12:37:08 UTC ]
Lit Lists Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate one book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with a brief statement explaining their choice. Now it’s your turn... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-03-31 20:04:23 UTC ]
Am I the Asshole is an infamous subreddit where people vote who the asshole is in a situation. Can you guess the book based on its AITA post? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-08-26 10:35:00 UTC ]
A groundbreaking children’s book based on an equally groundbreaking sports hero comes out today: Fauja Singh Keeps Going by Simran Jeet Singh, featuring the story of the first centenarian marathon runner, is also the first children’s book from a major publisher that features a Sikh main... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-25 16:06:55 UTC ]
Young black men are often viewed through a criminal lens. A new book based on an 11-year-long study of adolescent men in a South African township upends the stereotypes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-06-15 15:08:26 UTC ]
I do not understand why you would turn to The Office for anything other than its grimly comic tableaux of late-capitalist malaise and self-deluded mediocrity. Apparently I have missed its potential to teach 4- to 8-year-olds the “importance of teamwork” and “that it’s always OK to ask for help.”... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-25 21:39:17 UTC ]
Have you ever listened to one of your favorite albums on repeat, gotten lost in the sweeping, cinematic feel of it, knew it so well that you began picturing it as a narrative, filled in the details missing from the music, and then realized the story you were telling was almost fully independent... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-20 20:20:20 UTC ]