But of course Elizabeth Taylor had a career long before her stunning work in this classic adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. In fact, Elizabeth Taylor has many bookish credits to her name. So let’s explore the life of Elizabeth Taylor in all of its book-related glory. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British American actress born in London on February 27, 1932. She started her acting career as a child actress in the 1940s....
Helicopter Story The story was a response to the transphobic meme of the same name, but whether it was a reclamation or further mockery was up for debate: the author was an unknown, and there was no definitive proof how she identified. The story was nominated for a Hugo award, but despite the critical acclaim it received, it was also dragged through the mud on Twitter by readers who assumed the worst intentions....
Now I’ve read Sullivan’s Maine, and I just finished Close’s Girls in White Dresses. EW’s article says that “the term ‘chick lit’ is itself a bit passé, very pre-2006” and implies that this is because of a particular branding by publishers that is no longer trendy. Chick lit certainly has particular connotations – a pair of legs in heels on the (typically pink) cover – and while I agree that calling particular books chick lit is passé, I will argue that it’s a reflection of our current social and economic circumstances....
What is in store for us, readers of the future? While television and movies love to suggest that rehydration will be the savior of tasty treats, sci-fi on the page suggests something even less appetizing, if that’s possible. Any space travel story has to deal with the reality that humans require food: a lot of it, in a wide variety of forms and textures. Thus we come to one of the least exciting things about science fiction: what I think of as the “Grey Gunge....
Obviously the hankering for and concept of these books has been around for a long time, but most people refer to a 2009 contest from St. Martin’s as the beginning of NA. They were seeking “cutting-edge fiction with protagonists who are slightly older than YA…fiction similar to YA that can be published and marketed as adult — a sort of an older YA or new adult.” This, at least, started the conversation in earnest in the publishing industry....
There have been over 40 million copies of To Kill a Mockingbird sold worldwide since its first publication in 1960, translated into over forty languages. With all those copies out there in the world, I thought I’d check out some of the covers of this iconic book. Some were stunning, others a little creepy, and a few I wanted to buy immediately for my collection. With 337 listed on Goodreads, there were a lot of covers to look at....
Which ones? Well, to be honest, it’s difficult to even know where to start. There are so many boring book opinions, and you, dear reader, have expressed at least one of them. Sure, I can give examples, but first! Please understand that this is not exhaustive (though it is exhausting for me). There are countless other boring book opinions, and this is merely a sample. Let us begin. You refer to some books as “guilty pleasures....
This list is overwhelmingly (entirely?) by white authors, though less than half of New York City’s population is white. Here are the most-borrowed adult books from New York Public Library, including the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island. 2. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 3. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 4. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid 5. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry 6. This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub 7....
These are books which are seeing a lot of interest but haven’t necessarily stayed atop bestseller lists for months and/or books with particular interest locally. The data looks at adult fiction, adult nonfiction, and young adult books (which includes fiction, nonfiction, and comics). Panorama Picks groups public libraries by coordinating American Bookseller Association (ABA) regions, which allows for a really neat way of exploring interest on a regional level. A book might be especially popular in California but less so in the Midwest, and looking at that data provides a real opportunity for local bookstores and libraries....
So now it’s time to highlight some awesome bookish goods for kids. There are some beloved characters and franchises represented, but for the most part, these are the kinds of goods — tees, book plates, etc. — that are perfect for any young reader in your life. Treat the little ones to the book life, too. Bookish Gifts for Kids Literary Clothes for Kids Little Bookworm tee, available in a few colors....
(I wrote about the adaptation of Carol and the improvements it made for the film medium, and Alice Burton wrote about the importance of the book and movie for lesbians.) Very little was known outside of her closest circles (and a few salacious rumors and stories told at parties) about Highsmith’s personal life until after she died, leaving her literary legacy to her publisher Daniel Keel and longtime editor and friend Anna von Planta, including 36 previously unknown journals and notebooks....
Robert Pattinson Contributed to the First Soundtrack… Twi-hards already know this, but Robert Pattinson flexed more than his acting chops and sparkly muscles in the first Twilight film. He has two tracks featured in the movie, one even makes it onto the official soundtrack. “Never Think” plays after Edward stalks Bella to Port Angeles and saves her from the biker boys and they go for some mushroom ravioli at a local restaurant....
Over a year after the Oval Office said goodbye to Barack, Michelle, Sasha, Malia, Sunny, and Bo, I think it’s a good time to revisit some of the best memoirs and books about the Obamas, his presidency, and their gorgeous family. OBAMA MEMOIRS Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American....
But I don’t think of myself as merely a reader—I’m also a (thoroughly amateur) book collector. I cherish the experience of walking into my local bookstore, getting a recommendation from the friendly staff, and treating myself to a new book. However, it’s tricky to keep track of every new release and to be honest, I love a solid value-add like an author’s signature, especially if I’m paying list price for a book....
However, as someone who works with teens on a daily basis in a school library, it is a term that they use freely as they try to navigate the murky waters of what is real and not real in today’s bottomless information dump that is the news cycle. To combat fake news, or disinformation, or whatever you want to call it, I created a series of lessons that I have delivered to students in London over the past few weeks....
Do you know as much as a TBR Bibliologist? Our Tailored Book Recommendations (TBR) service matches readers with books they’ll love. As a Bibliologist, I often help readers who feel they’ve read all the greatest hits of a genre but want to go deeper, learn about under-the-radar reads, emerging sub-genres, and the sleeper hits about to blow up the bestseller page. Our Bibliologists draw on a combined knowledge of more than 21,000 books read over the last decade to do just that....
via GIPHY When you meet your favorite comedy author at his stand-up comedy show, don’t say: “The crowd was a little bit quiet tonight, which is cool, because it felt really intimate.” When you meet your favorite author at a book signing that no one showed up for, don’t say: “This is basically my dream because it felt like a private conversation! Do you mind if I just ask you a couple more questions?...
While there’s lots to love about comic book conventions, I miss the cosplay the most. It’s like a second Halloween for me. It’s fun to dress up like my favorite characters (a function of my love of the character plus the availability of objects in my closet and the ease of making/buying things on the cheap). At the 2020 C2E2 (!), I dressed up as Hilda, Prince Robot IV from Saga, and Ash from Die (which no one got)....
We were inspired by Women in Translation Month, the fantastically successful initiative begun by Meytal Radzinski in 2014. Each August, #WiTMonth encourages readers and critics to engage women’s writing in translation. We thought September, as the back-to-school month, would be a good time to celebrate children’s literature in translation. Why #WorldKidLit? But: Why should young people read literature in translation? Ilan Stavans, the publisher of Yonder, said in an interview with WordsWithoutBorders that childhood is the time for translations....
