7 Books for Your Winter Break
Categories: Arts & Entertainment
It’s the holiday season and you finally have some time off, you’re over stuffed with food-coma, and you’re sick of listening to your Uncle Ned argue with your whole family; making this the perfect opportunity to catch up on some reading. Here is a list of books that are quick and easy to read during [...]
Nostalgia Moment: Book Series from our Childhoods
Categories: Pop Culture
Children’s books are not what they used to be. What happened to the good old days before Harry Potter, Twilight, and the Hunger Games? Remember the wholesomeness?
Finding the Future at the End of the (Analog) World
Categories: Arts & Entertainment
I was invited to play ‘Find the Future,’ a game masterminded by game designer and author Jane McGonigal in celebration of the library’s centennial. This is an account of my experience.
WTF is ‘Twitterature’ and Why is it Awesome?
Categories: Pop Culture
Is is the most creative thing to happen to literature since Hogwarts? Or is it simply a lazier version of Cliffsnotes?
Crossing the Medium: Awesome Book Adaptations
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Book Week
Let’s celebrate those successful adaptations of books that not only worked commercially, but were also met with critical acclaim.
Barnes & Noble can suck it: Thoughts from a former Borders employee
Categories: Book Week, Lifestyle
For a little over four years, I was a bookseller at Borders. I worked at two different stores in two different cities, and I’m immensely proud to have been a part of a bookstore that was there for the books.
Cookbooks To Get Us Cooking
Categories: Book Week, Lifestyle
Everyone’s sick and tired of heating up prepackaged lasagna. We’ve found some cookbooks that will turn you into Jamie Oliver overnight.
7 Autobiographies Worth Reading
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Book Week
Experience, either our own or other people’s, indeed is the best teacher. Here’s a short list of some inspirational memoirs.
You’re the Star of This Article: The Choose Your Own Adventure Books
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Book Week
If you’re from a different generation and/or you need a crash course on CYOA, go to section A. If you thought to yourself, “I remember those!” with excited enthusiasm, go to section B. If you want to know where CYOA books are today, go to section C.
Millennial darling Jonathon Safran Foer has some haters
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Book Week
Critics of young authors like Foer really just mean, “Hey, sonny boy, you’re too young to matter. Try growing up a bit.”
