Books

Spring is on the way, and for a lot of people, that means plants are on the brain. It makes total sense! It’s starting to warm up bit by bit and all those spring cleaning projects are getting tackled. For some plants are a big part of the process. Houseplants need repotting or fresh soil.

Adding Dungeons & Dragons miniatures to your roleplaying game really brings the campaign to life! Dungeons & Dragons (or really, any RPG) is already the perfect medium for active storytelling. You are more than an audience; you are an active participant, shaping the story around you, crafting a WORLD around you. A great Dungeon Master

In the winter, I love to sit in front of the fireplace show on Netflix and cuddle up with a good audiobook. I sip warm tea while listening to something like Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May, narrated by Rebecca Lee. Lee’s soothing voice with May’s comforting words

Grace Linn is a 100-year-old widow of a WWII veteran, a grandmother, and a craftivist. On Tuesday, she spoke at a Martin County, Florida school board meeting to protest the removal of 80+ books from the school library. Her statement has gotten a lot of media coverage, and she was later interviewed on MSNBC, Fox

Ah, to be alive during the Twitter era. It’s a blessing and a curse, isn’t it? On the one hand, you’ve got the thoughts and opinions of millions of people across the globe right at your fingertips. On the other hand, what if those thoughts and opinions are ones you never asked for on topics

The 2023 Audie Award winners were announced Tuesday by the Audio Publishers Association. The award ceremony, in its 28th year, honors audiobooks in 26 categories, including Audiobook of the Year, Autobiography, Memoir, Best Female Narrator, Best Male Narrator, and more. 2023 Audie Award Winners AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR Finding Me, written and narrated by Viola

If you thought we hit “full names in book titles” in YA prior to this seasonal roundup, you’d be wrong. This trend continues to grow, and in the world of spring 2023 YA books, it’s one that will showcase how YA is becoming more thoughtful and intentional when it comes to creating more diverse, inclusive

Goodreads has released its list of the most sought after new releases for the month. The editorial team assembled the list by looking at Goodreads’ members early reviews and how often books were added to the “want to read” shelves on the site. The list shows how eclectic Goodreads members’ taste is, and includes books

Emily Henry is a household name for her bestselling romance novels Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, and Book Lovers, with her newest novel, Happy Place, coming out in April. Fans will rejoice to hear that one of her novels is getting the feature film treatment: the movie rights for Book Lovers have been

Rōnin House Widower Kane Black has been hollowed by grief… until he finds a woman with his wife Lily’s inimitable beauty. Aliyah, Kane’s mother, sees a threat. “Lily” has dangerous control over Kane and there can be only one queen on this throne. Amy, Kane’s sister-in-law, is bloodied by betrayal. She’s paid too high a

If you write a book, your name should be on the cover, shouldn’t it? Give credit where credit is due, as they say. But it’s a different case for many authors who put a a pen name on their covers. Indeed, in the literary and the wider publishing landscape, there have been plenty of authors

In the high school library that I manage, we have a thriving comic book club that meets once weekly during lunch. This is a mixture of manga readers and comic book fans that come together to draw, talk about their favourite titles, and play games related to both comic books and manga. It’s hard for

Sometimes you’re lucky in life. Why? Because you find an author with an extensive backlist filled with books that call to you. From the very first time I started reading Lucy Score’s books, it was very clear to me that she was going to become an author who never lets me down. In her backlist,

J.R. Moehringer has been one of the biggest names in celebrity memoir since long before we were all discussing Prince Harry’s frostbitten penis. It sounds like an oxymoron to be a publicly-recognized ghostwriter, but it seems as though in recent years, ghostwriting has begun to be presented more as a collaboration than like a celebrity

While most romance novels focus on two characters who fall in love over the course of the story, the “marriage in trouble” trope is quickly gaining traction. This refers to books about an already-married couple who overcome their differences and reignite the “spark” in their relationship. In some cases, this trope can also cover divorced

I am wholeheartedly a word game nerd. I love them. I’m still playing Wordle over a year since I started, and my family’s group chat is still going strong. Recently, on vacation, I heard my mom finish the New York Times mini crossword from the other side of the hotel room by the sound alone.

Of the many Nobel Prize in Literature winners from the past two or so decades, who should you read — and where do you begin? Award-winners of this caliber can often feel inaccessible. Many of us have a small barrier in our heads that says that authors who are big award winners must also be

One very easy way to learn about and discover new books and authors is through the cover reveal. This was not a possible avenue of discovery before the age of book talk on the internet, and in an era where visuals are becoming more and more important — and indeed, book cover designers are taking

We’re all tired. The coordinated attacks on everything from Drag Queen story hours to Pride displays to individual books in libraries is going into its second year. While many have been waking up to this — which happens when it’s not just in those red communities, but in your own as well — we’re hitting