Cassandra in Reverse – Holly Smale
Summary: Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend, Will) and…
Category: Books
78. When We Flew Away
78. When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary. Alice Hoffman. 2024. 304 pages. [Source: Library]…
In Brief: October 3, 2024
Recently an author announced a new book, a comedian made her middle grade debut, a former state official discussed her…
Romance Novelist Writes a Math Textbook in SNL Skit
Posted on October 1, 2024 Romance novelist Barbara Berkman (played by Jean Smart) has written a math textbook for Scholastic…
Stuart Murdoch: ‘I feel like this book will be the Trainspotting of ME’ | Fiction
Stuart Murdoch was born in 1968 and grew up in Ayr. In the late 80s, he fell ill with ME/chronic…
How Kodak Invented the Snapshot in the 1800s, Making It Possible for Everyone to Be a Photographer
We still occasionally speak of “Kodak moments,” making conscious or unconscious reference to the slogan of the Eastman Kodak Company…
Music and Memory | Peter E. Gordon
In 1958 the Ukrainian-born Russian poet Anna Akhmatova wrote a poem with the simple title “Music.” It bears the dedication…
A Letter to the Luminous Deep – Sylvie Cathrall
Summary: E. is content with a solitary life in her extraordinary underwater home, until the discovery of a strange, beautiful…
Becky’s Book Reviews: 73. Westfallen
Westfallen. Ann Brashares and Ben Brashares. 2024. 384 pages. [Source: Library] [5 stars] [MG speculative fiction, MG science fiction, MG…
2024–2025 Children’s Books in Translation
We asked publishers to tell us about some of the recent and forthcoming children’s titles in translation they’re especially proud…
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Posted on June 22, 2012 A new survey by the British firm Docmail found that the average adult has not…
Nadia Davids wins Caine short story prize for ‘triumph of language’ Bridling | Books
South African writer Nadia Davids has won this year’s Caine prize for African writing for her short story Bridling, described…
The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse: Rick Beato Explains
Earlier this month, a North Carolina man was charged with generating songs using an artificial-intelligence system and configuring bots to…
Iraq: Child Marriage Returns? | Dunya Mikhail
Ten years ago, I started interviewing women and girls who had escaped ISIS captivity. From 2014 to 2017, that terrorist…
Peach Blossom Spring – Melissa Fu
Summary: “Within every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune, and so it goes,…
68. Life As We Knew It
68. Life As We Knew It. Susan Beth Pfeffer. 2006. 337 pages. [Source: Library] [MG Fiction, YA Fiction] [5 stars]…
Anthology Reframes the Story of Women and Power in Antiquity
In her new anthology, Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra, published by Penguin Classics…
Taraji Henson Reads from Her Children’s Book
Posted on July 6, 2024 Award-winning actress Taraji P. Henson reads from her children’s book, You Can Be a Good…
Novelist Rumaan Alam: ‘A lot of people have secret money – it can make you crazy with envy’ | Fiction
Rumaan Alam wrote his first novel between the hours of 7pm and 2am every night. In the mornings, after getting his two…
How 2001: A Space Odyssey Became “the Hardest Film Kubrick Ever Made”
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey has been praised in all manner of terms since it came out more than…
Desert Visions | Forrest Gander
I was born or given to the light, as the largely Hispanic townspeople would say, in the impoverished desert municipality…
The Blonde Identity – Ally Carter
We’re BACK, BABY! Summer break was awesome, but school is in session and it’s time to get our review on!…