Girls, not boys, in all three countries received more time from parents on three activities: reading, storytelling, and teaching letters and numbers. Maybe boys aren’t as interested, and so the interest isn’t reinforced? Too squirrelly to keep still? Huh. ____________________________ Ebook besteller lists will now appear only online, not in print. The reasoning behind [...]
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Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. We’ll be taking a little break next week, so we’ve included a few titles from next week’s paperback releases, too. May 21 Cold Killing by Luke Delaney (William Morrow) The debut novel in a terrifying London-based thriller [...]
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This round of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never [...]
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Have you ever read a book that got everything right? A book that so fully reflects your own thoughts and feelings that you almost feel cheated, like the author stole the words from your subconscious and slapped them down on paper just to screw with you? Please welcome to the show: Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch, everyone! See, I’m… [...]
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Electric lighting has been an enormous boon to readers. Before its advent, reading after dark meant squinting in the flickering light thrown off by a candle or lantern. Not only was this obnoxious as all hell, it both used up often limited resources and risked damage to home (fire!) and body (overuse-induced pseudomyopia!). Together, electricity [...]
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LH: It’s already the middle of freaking May! *insert something witty about the passage of time here* Now, if you’re like me, and I’m pretty sure you are, sugar britches, I think a book you read during summer months = a summer read. It could be because summer is like any other season for me. [...]
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We’re in the homestretch of our Kickstarter campaign to publish START HERE, Vol. 2, a book dedicated to guiding you into reading authors you’ve been wanting to try but haven’t, because you didn’t know where to start. At this posting, we’re more than $15K toward our $20K goal, with more than 865 backers!. We have until midnight [...]
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Baz Luhrmann is the man who brought aquarium cute-meets and methamphetamines (not to mention a plus sign!!) to Romeo and Juliet and floating bobbly words and Jay-Z to The Great Gatsby. Oh, what dazzling wonders and unspeakable horrors will he wreak on classic literature next? More importantly, what magic and havoc do we WANT him to [...]
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The only type of paid review that Amazon supports is an editorial review. An editorial review is a more formal evaluation of a book usually written by an editor or expert within a genre, but can also be written by family and friends. If you have received an editorial review of your book that you’d [...]
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It’s the time of year for academic send-offs, graduation gifts, and general future-gazing. Understandably, college and universities like to send their graduates out on a high note, so the tenor of commencement speeches is hopeful and inspiring. Thing is, post-graduation life is considerably more complicated than “be the change you want to see in the [...]
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This round of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by The Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller. Storied, fiercely competitive Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code; its reputation has been unsullied for decades. Now a long-dormant secret society, Prisom’s Party, threatens its placid halls with vigilante justice, exposing students and teachers alike for [...]
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The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan (Knopf, on sale date June 11, 2013) This book is an iteration of the technique where a book follows a number of different stories that turn out to be linked. In this novel, the common thread is a particular antique diamond ring. The stories connected by the ring are [...]
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Earlier this month, Derek wrote about The Smallest Book in the World (and Other Really Little Books). Everyone loves the charm of miniature books, but a few collectors have taken this love above and beyond to create some of the most unique and valuable libraries in the world. That’s right, I’m talking about doll house [...]
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Reinterpreting myths, fairy tales, and folk tales is way more than a cottage industry—a castle industry?—in publishing these days. From literary fiction (The Tiger’s Wife) to YA (Robin McKinley’s books, Runemarks) to graphic novels (the Fable series, The Sigh) to humor (Gods Behaving Badly), authors are picking up and reimagining bits and pieces from millennia [...]
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Handsome Symbologist Robert Langdon is at it again! He wakes up with retrograde amnesia in a hospital in Florence, barely escapes an attempt on his life, acquires a plucky female sidekick, and gets down to the important business of being handsome and symbology-solving. And that’s all within, like, the first twenty pages of Dan [...]
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Our full-text RSS feed this week is sponsored by Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller. Click here to subscribe to Book Riot via RSS and to be notified of new posts to stay up-to-date on all the latest.* Storied, fiercely competitive Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code; its reputation has been [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, I challenged you to guess some famous characters by their physical descriptions. Well, we’re back with a similar challenge. This time, though, it’s guess the setting. I’ll give you a description of a place from a novel, and you try to guess it. Ready? (Link to answers at the end….) Here [...]
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Blume has “zero -interest” in penning more YA—a genre that didn’t exist when she was writing it. “I don’t consider myself a young-adult writer,” she says firmly. Is it just me or is that sort of a sick burn by Judy Blume? ____________________________ And I have a real problem with this idea that only [...]
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Rosenblum: “My niece, upon seeing the first Harry Potter movie asked why Harry and Hermione and Ron always went to the ‘library’ at Hogwarts to look stuff up. ‘Why don’t they just google it?’ A reasonable question.” Besides the ridiculousness of this statement (I mean, why would secret material about the Dark Arts even BE on [...]
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