Enter the world of the Tarakan Chronicles, a dystopia where knowledge is the scarcest commodity of all. Author Eyal Kless talks about creating his world, the characters he misses most, and if we’ll see more of it. Read More
All writing is biased. The trick is to recognize the biases and to seek out as many different biases in your reading as you can. Read More
GeekMom Elizabeth reviews Kristina Kuzmic’s new book ‘Hold On, But Don’t Hold Still: Hope and Humor From My Seriously Flawed Life’ from Viking Books. Read More
This year I’m starting my middle-grade reading off with a series of ‘Lumberjanes’ novels based on the popular comic series. Read More
Romance isn’t a genre I often gravitate toward but I liked the idea of a story driven by music, so I gave ‘Mix Tape’ by Jane Sanderson a try. Read More
Author Sandhya Menon answers questions about her latest YA romance, Of Curses and Kisses’, and diversity in the genre. Read More
Planning out another glorious year of used book sales, the year starts early in New Gloucester ME. A local library’s Cabin Fever sale sets the bar for 2020 pretty high. Read More
The Parish Orphans of Devon series concludes with Neville Cross finally getting his turn in the spotlight…and what a light it is. Read More
Things always look bleak for the heroes in the middle of the story. They just don’t give up until they find their happy ending. Read More
As the first book in the ‘Consortium Rebellion’ series, ‘Polaris Rising,’ by Jessie Mihalik, picks up as Ada, a younger daughter of High House von Hasenberg, is captured by mercenaries on a remote space station. Read More
Announcing the American Library Association’s 2020 Youth Media Awards, and several of Amy’s opinions thereof! Read More
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson has recently been turned into a Netflix movie. Forgoing the shiny new version GeekMom Sarah takes a deep dive into the world of Shirley Jackson. Would you like a cup of tea? Read More
In the debut novel of Anna James, ‘Pages & Co.: The Bookwanderers,’ the titular character literally gets carried away in a book. Read More
‘The Vanished Bride’ reimagines the Brontë sisters as amateur sleuths before they wrote the novels for which they would become immortalized. Read More
In her 2018 ‘New York Times’ Bestseller ‘The Hazel Wood,’ Melissa Albert introduced us to the Hinterland, a world of fairy tales that some sought to run from and some ran straight into. At the end of the book, most of us were left wanting more. Albert’s conclusion to ‘The Hazel Wood’ arrived in bookstores this week. In ‘The Night Country,’ we don’t quite return to ‘The Hazel Wood,’ more like ‘The Hazel Wood’ returns to us. Read More
A new year always brings with it good intentions to make positive changes. Here are 3 books that may help you stick to common resolutions. Read More
Historian Jennifer Hallock, who writes historical fiction, provides the best places to start researching history online. Read More
In the first Between the Bookends of 2020, Rebecca, Amy, Robin, & Sophie share books that saw them out of the last decade and into the new. Read More
Whether you participate in Jolabokaflod or just have a love for books, we have a selection of family Christmas books guaranteed to jingle your bells, from a recycled Christmas tree to a magic snowman (no, not that one) to an English pig. Read More
In a world obsessed with social media, where research and Wikipedia sadly go hand in hand, keenly researched and expertly put together non-fiction for kids is vital. National Geographic has been educating us for over a century; in their books for kids they seek to ground the next generation in research and fact, to understand the difference and place of the real and the mythical. Read More
