Reviewed by Hubert O’ Hearn (This is the first of a series of reviews and author interviews examining the current state of US politics.) Let me put it to you this way: We want our governments to decide like Vulcans, yet we vote like Klingons. If that is a shade too obscure, I can rephrase it more prosaically. A safe assumption is that any citizen of any nation wants its designated executive leaders — whether […]
Heated debate at the Edinburgh International Book Festival recently focused on young adult fiction. Who reads it? Who is it written for? And do those things ever collide? And, perhaps most important of all, how does one to even begin to define the category? From The Guardian: Was it born from SE Hinton’s The Outsiders in the 1960s? From Alan Garner in the 60s? Is it, as a teacher was lambasted for writing in the […]
True-crime aficionados are going to eat up Trials of the Century: A Decade-by-Decade Look at Ten of America’s Most Sensational Crimes by Mark J. Phillips and Aryn Z. Phillips (Prometheus). But they won’t be the only ones. As the introduction tells us: Americans are addicted to violent crime. Not to committing it, particularly, notwithstanding a history of nineteenth-century gunslingers, twentieth-century gangsters, and the wide prevalence of handguns, which outnumber citizens. Rather, Americans love to talk […]
Chesapeake Shores, a new series based on the books by Sherryl Woods, airs tonight in the US and on the 25th in Canada. Here’s some backstory from The Morning Ledger: Chesapeake Shores, a series of novels by Sherryl Woods follows the story of Abby O’Brien. Abby is a New York City-based career woman who, after leaving her hometown Chesapeake, never dared to look back. She, estranged from her former husband, is currently battling him with […]
We always knew that reading to our children was important: raising a reader and all that. But now it looks as though there is even more reason to take the time to read to your kids. And it has everything to do with how frightening the world has become. From The Independent: It’s been a little tough to find the light in the midst of so much darkness lately, hasn’t it? Shootings, terror attacks, a […]
Nikko is happily playing in the backyard of his home when a giant bird swoops down and clasps him firmly in its talons and soars back into the sky leaving his mother desperately crying behind. And so begins an incredible adventure for Nikko in a fantastical land where the Leaf Children live in trees with magical musical leaves, where the Drongs wage wars against them, where the beautiful Gabrysia is captured, and where Nikko and […]
It’s what all of us booklovers want: the book that will change our life. Here Lifehack rounds up 25 travel books that will change your life: There are millions of books out there “in the cloud” and in the bookstores, but only a few deserve our attention and will continue to deserve our attention. We’ve handpicked 25 amazing books you must read before you travel the world or set out on a quest to explore […]
Of all of the wonderful and even magical things reading can do for us, the most important has seldom been suspected. According to a study that covered a large control group over many years, the reading of books can lengthen your life. From the New York Times: Compared with those who did not read books, those who read for up to three and a half hours a week were 17 percent less likely to die […]
After months of hoopla, a few days ago we got the first new peep from Harry Potter since the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2007. The fact that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a play not a book doesn’t seem to have dampened either interest or enthusiasm. From Deadline Hollywood: The play, produced by [Colin] Callender and Sonia Friedman, and written by Jack Thorne from an original story by […]
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