Our weekly round-up of the best bookish lists floating around the internet. at Vogue, Required Reading: 30+ Best Bets to Pick Up This Summer at Flavorwire, 10 Stories of Famous Literary Exiles at Terrible Minds, 25 Things You Should Know About Antagonists at LitReactor, 5 Ways Your Brain Sabotages Your Writing…And What to Do About [...]
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Earlier this week, we launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish our first book. START HERE is all about helping readers get into authors they’ve always wanted to read but haven’t because they don’t know where to start. Margaret Atwood’s books are awesome, and there are A LOT of them. We hear from readers all the time who [...]
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Morrison was asked about Slade’s death on Oprah Winfrey’s television show last year, and rejected the idea of getting any kind of “closure” as “some kind of insult”. I thought I couldn’t love Toni Morrison any more than I already do. I was wrong. ____________________________ ‘One of the points in our guidelines will be [...]
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We’ve already acknowledged that it’s damn near impossible to have just one favorite quote from Gatsby. And we’ve binged on favorite quotes from the first four chapters. The inaugural Riot Read is wrapping up, so if you have a favorite quote or passage from the second half of the book, share it in this thread on [...]
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You can submit your guess using the form below after any clue, but if you’re wrong, you’re out for the week. So you’ve got to pick your spot. Too early and you might be wrong; wait until you’re sure, and you might get scooped. [HINT: This week's answer is one of the authors on our longlist of [...]
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This is going to be an exegesis on the famous last line of The Great Gatsby: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” I’m friends with a lot of high school English teachers, and so many of them have quoted this line to me over the years, and [...]
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Lydia Netzer is the author of Shine Shine Shine. Her debut novel, Shine Shine Shine is a People Magazine “People Pick,” an IndieNext List selection, and an Amazon Spotlight book for July. Netzer lives in Virginia with her husband and two home-schooled children. When she isn’t writing, she writes songs and plays guitar in a rock [...]
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Try as I might, I just can’t get myself to a place where I can buy Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway. Instead of dealing with reality and just accepting it like a grown-up, I have been endlessly recasting the role. Here are my top 3 choices. 3. Wes Bentley The thing to remember is that [...]
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and above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. – Roald Dahl
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How many serious books can even a dedicated reader conquer in a year? No more than forty, I should think. Challenge….ACCEPTED. ____________________________ As expected of a country protecting their business interests, they are opposing a binding treaty because to do so would potentially create a precedent for similar exceptions and limitations to the rights of copyright [...]
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This morning, we launched our first Kickstarter campaign to publish START HERE, a book designed to help you find your way into authors you’ve always wanted to read but haven’t, because you didn’t know where to start. We’re pretty excited about it, and we hope you are, too. We’d love your help getting the word out! For [...]
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The Dictionary of Fictional Techniques is a running feature in which I observe, name, and discuss heretofore uncategorized (at least to my knowledge) literary devices. See previous entries here. ____________________________ Proxy Detailing: Giving the particular name, brand, or style of an object to give it specificity without actually describing it. Example: “Two days after his car–an [...]
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So Penguin Classics, a press whose website brags about being “…timeless and trendsetting,” is about to publish a book of Nostradamus’ poetry called The Prophecies. I call his writings poems, mostly because I don’t believe in magic, but also because they’re too vague to actually predict anything. For example: The lost thing is discovered, hidden [...]
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This Riot Recommendation request comes to us via Twitter: The reader behind @1Region1Book said that what they really loved about The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane was the magic realism. Knowing this, what other children’s and YA books would you recommend?
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Lately, I’ve noticed a theme in my reading. I’ve been classifying it as like-science fiction, but it’s not quite capital letters “Sci Fi.” Mostly, I’ve been reading books about the universe – mostly fiction and mostly outside the standard Science Fiction genre. The common thread is a focus on space, science, and the impact of [...]
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In Growing Up With …, Jenn features picture books, middle reader, and teen books linked together by concept or theme. ____________________________ My favorite characters are often secondary. As much as I may love the protagonist of any book, I’m always wondering what the plot might have looked like from another angle, a different perspective. Luckily for me, [...]
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There are so many great authors and fantastic books out there that it is impossible to know them all. There’s so much, in fact, that is easy to miss amazing stuff. That’s the reason we included Reading Pathways as a regular feature here on Book Riot since day one. We’ve written short, accessible, and passionate introductions [...]
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“Make a point” Pencil Set: A pencil set for writers or bookworms alike from Paper Pastries. Book Junkie Pillow: A pillow for the best kind of junkies out there. Neverending story ereader cover: A fitting case for ereaders, if you ask me. Revolving Bookcase: A revolving, tiered bookcase to display your favorites; can be yours [...]
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