Isabel Allende sat down with David Frost and gave an intimate, occasionally sad and frequently humorous insight into her life. I feel a connection with Isabel in a fundamental way…Continue readingIsabel Allende: ‘Forever a foreigner’
From heart-breaking love letters and heart-warming thank you cards, to notes veering on creepy. Curious Things Found In Library Books —– Ann Patchett on the Post, in the Post In…Continue readingWho would leave that in a library book?
Flavorwire offers a recommended books list with a twist. “The Internet (this site not the least bit exempt) is fond of telling you which books you should read. Particularly, it…Continue readingBooks you should NOT read in your 20s
1) On style: “Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should have no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…Continue readingTwo micro lessons in writing
Vadzim Khudabets has taken bits from over 50 sci-fi movies—some good (The Dark Knight, Sunshine), some bad (The Last Airbender, Prince of Persia), and a lot in-between—and made the trailer…Continue readingHow many movies do you recognize?
There are thousands of abandoned big box stores sitting empty all over America, including hundreds of former Walmart stores. One of the Walmarts, however, has been reincarnated to a higher…Continue readingAbandoned Walmart now America’s largest library
The answer is — ROMANCE. “A whopping 81 percent of those surveyed listed romance as their favorite genre with mystery coming in a very distant second at almost 5 percent.…Continue readingWhat do people read? What do they like?
A video of a Fox News host asking an author who is Muslim why he would write a book about Jesus went viral. But such a thing is not unheard…Continue readingBooks by the unfaithful
This one, for example: “Hold Still”, by Nina LaCour: This novel follows Caitlin, a teenager trying to come to terms with the suicide of her best friend, Ingrid. Accompanying Caitlin…Continue readingYA Novels That Should Be Movies