No Exit – Taylor Adams
Summary: On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce…
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Becky’s Book Reviews: September Reflections
In September, I read thirty-four books! I also rediscovered the joy in reading. I took the advice of friends and…
Booker Prize 2024 Shortlist Announced
Posted on September 21, 2024 The Booker Prize 2024 shortlist has been announced. It features books by five women and…
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman audiobook review – a mesmerising reading by Ruth Wilson | Audiobooks
If you saw the BBC’s adaptation of His Dark Materials, you will remember Ruth Wilson stealing the show as the…
How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear: Mirrors in Movies
If you’ve never tried your hand at filmmaking, you might assume that its hardest visual challenges are the creation of…
Lebanon: Memories of War
It took a while for people to grasp what was happening as thousands of pagers beeped then detonated across Lebanon…
Lady Macbeth – Ava Reid
Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess,…
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…
41% of Adults Haven’t Handwritten Anything in the Past Six Weeks
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!…
Becky’s Book Reviews: August Reflections
IN August I read 23 books. But three of them were Bibles, so all in all not horrible. Books reviewed…