Tag: Books

The Unicorn Quest books. Pictures from kamillabenko.com My daughter is a voracious reader, but sometimes a book seems to resonate a bit more than others. She reads it even more intently than normal. She talks about it a lot. Elements of the story show up in her own play. The latest such story to hit […]

This Week’s Word Is “Brexit.”  Chris Beckett is an author I’ve been meaning to read for several years now, ever since Dark Eden won the Clarke Award. Finally, I caught up with is work, with his latest novel, Two Tribes. I was drawn to Two Tribes because of its themes of Brexit and climate change.  Before COVID-19, if there […]

This Week’s Word Is “Equality.” It’s been a tough week out there. The murder of George Floyd has turned a spotlight on society and found it wanting. Protests abound. The level of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement is heartening, the volume of people decrying it, depressing. Social media has been a tough place […]

This Week’s Word Is “Arthur.” The arrival of a new Lavie Tidhar book is always cause for celebration. He’s written some of my favorite books of the last 10 years. A Man Lies Dreaming is a masterpiece of speculative fiction. By Force Alone marks something of a departure for Tidhar. Whilst most of his novels fall into the speculative/science […]

Lucy Brownridge is an English author and editor of children’s books. She likes to write about art, history, animals, and science. She has an MA in history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a BA in history of art from the University of Bristol. Her books are fun and informative, and when […]

This Week’s Word Is “Goldilocks” A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson was going to be hard to beat for my novel of the year. Yet, only two weeks later, I’ve found another book that riffs off a classic story, that may well be even better. Goldilocks by Laura Lam is a […]

May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, a time to recognize the ways that Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans have contributed to our culture here in the United States. Here’s a stack of books to help you celebrate! It feels all the more important this year because of the way that this pandemic has allowed […]

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