Our Wives Under the Sea – Julie Armfield
Summary: Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea…
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The Golden Age Volume 1
93. Superman: The Golden Age #1 Jerry Siegel. Joe Shuster. 2016. (Comics are from June 1938 through December 1939.) 392…
Global Book Sales Explode as a Result of Social Media
A recent Nielsen BookData and GfK Entertainment report on global book sales for the first eight months of the year…
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…
Novelist and poet Paul Bailey dies at 87 | Books
The twice Booker-shortlisted writer Paul Bailey died on Sunday aged 87, his agent has confirmed. He was best known for…
Hear 2.5 Hours of the Classical Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Liszt, Beethoven, Janáček, and More
Haruki Murakami’s hit novel 1Q84 features a memorable scene in a taxicab on a gridlocked freeway whose radio is playing Leoš Janáček’s…
A Living Requiem | Anahid Nersessian
In 1598 the world’s first opera, Dafne, was composed by Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini, who based his libretto on…
The Book of Witching – C.J. Cooke
Summary: Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital…
Becky’s Book Reviews: 76. Dogtown
76. Dogtown (A Dogtown Book #1) Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko. 2023. [September] 352 pages. [Source: Library] [Animal fantasy; J…
Tough Topics for Kids – Friendship & Bullying
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Han Kang Wins The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024
Posted on October 10, 2024 Writer and poet Han Kang has been awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024.…
Pope Francis to publish Hope, the first memoir from a sitting pontiff | Books
Pope Francis has written an autobiography, publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced. Hope, which will be published globally in…
Take a Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, the Mansion That Has Appeared in Blade Runner, Twin Peaks & Countless Hollywood Films
There are more than a few of us who’d enjoy the opportunity to live in a house that appears in…
Harris’s Chance on Trade | Zephyr Teachout
In 2016, during the surreal presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I was the Democratic nominee for Congress…
The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) – Admiral William H. McRaven
In just a few days (on October 13, 2025) the US Navy will celebrate its 250th Anniversary. I can’t think…
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]…
How Book Bans Happen Under the Radar
Thousands of books have been publicly challenged and removed from libraries in the past couple of years. Elizabeth Harris, who…
Perfect Bound Buys PubMatch
Perfect Bound Technologies has acquired PubMatch, the global rights and licensing marketplace founded by Jon Malinowski, CEO of the Combined…
2024 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
Posted on October 3, 2024 The finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards have been announced by the National Book…
Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell review – same theory, but a bit dreary | Malcolm Gladwell
It’s almost 25 years since Malcolm Gladwell published The Tipping Point, which sought to understand social phenomena – the drop…
The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It
The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, something of which we’ve all seen footage at one time or another.…
Bring Back the Fight! | Joseph O’Neill
Vice-presidential debates are notoriously inconsequential. The Vance–Walz back-and-forth will almost certainly make no difference to the outcome of the November…