The Shire was an idealized version of the rural England of Tolkien’s childhood, Recipewise explains, and gives us some remarkable recipes for Gandalf’s tea party. An Unexpected Party – Image…Continue readingFood In The Hobbit
Arianna Rebolini of BuzzFeed has chosen 102 of the “Greatest Books By Women” and asks how many of them you’ve read so far. I have read 34 of them and…Continue readingHow many have you read?
When Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road, Stacy Conradt tells us at at Mental Floss, he was really writing about his own cross-country exploits with his Beat Generation buddies. Neal…Continue readingBased on Real People
(Stokkete/Shutterstock) Women need to trust that they know what’s good, what’s bad, and what serves them intellectually in order to reject or reclaim the books in their lives, Sady Doyle…Continue readingReading While Female
My first tweet wasn’t exactly profound. “Hello world” was all it said. Flavorwire looked up “The First Tweets of 25 Writers We Love” and none of them were actually profound,…Continue readingWhat did your first tweet say?
And here I sit looking forlornly at my coffee. Honestly, I feel TAME. Not that I’m a genius, but they’re talking about creativity here, and all these people apparently needed…Continue readingTheir drugs of choice
Gender-specific books demean all our children – or so says Katy Guest, the literary editor of The Independent, and therefore her paper will no longer review anything marketed to exclude…Continue readingNo more boys-only books
No, I get it. ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’, and all that. BUT WE DO. It’s the first thing we see, the first aspect of the book that…Continue readingSnarking the Cover
The library is the last, best socialized institution in America today and you’re about to lose it, Democrats Ramshield says at the DailyKos. Library budgets have become low hanging fruit…Continue readingWill you lose your library?
20 books that that really exist And one of them was a best seller. Can you guess which one? Unbelievable books ~~~~~ “…a genuine overlooked treasure” In The Green Man…Continue readingCan you believe these titles?