A fellow teacher once handed me a list titled “Books Every High School Student Should Read.” The idea was that the books in that list would fully prepare students for the philosophical and literary rigors of college. Which is great, except that (A) not every kid is going to be an English major (the books [...]
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Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. They Eat Puppies, Don’t They? by Christopher Buckley (Twelve) In an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist “Bird” McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American public [...]
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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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I hereby declare, with all the authority I can muster — don’t laugh; it’s better than nothing — that this summer shall be the Season of the Epistolary Novel. The declaration is inspired by two great novels-in-letters coming out in the next few months: I’ll Be Seeing You, by Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan, who [...]
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Most bibliophiles probably have an idea of what their ideal library looks like, but don’t get the chance to actually create it. The first parliamentary librarian of Canada, however, more or less did. Canada’s Library of Parliament was built in 1876 in a neo-Gothic style. Although it was designed by Thomas Fuller, one of Canada’s [...]
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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has now been in the world for 200 years, and about four months. So I thought I’d finally get to it. But I didn’t read it to prove Meg Wolitzer wrong, or to fall in love with Elizabeth, or even to be able to name my next fantasy football team [...]
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Our Kickstarter campaign to publish START HERE, Vol.2, the second book in our series designed to help you get into authors you’ve been wanting to read but haven’t because you didn’t know where to start, is down to the single digits. We have 11 days and less than $8K left to raise toward our goal of $20K. Nearly [...]
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The great Sol Stein has this to say about titles in his excellent Stein on Writing: Venture into any bookstore and look at the titles of new novels on display. Take note of your reaction to the titles of books by authors you don’t know. You’ll see how many book’s don’t tempt you to pick them up [...]
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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? ____________________________ Many publishers that do sell or license are engaging in extreme [...]
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We’re excited to announce our new podcast! Here’s the description: The Podcast is a weekly news and talk show about what’s new, cool, and worth talking about in the world of books and reading, brought to you by the editors of BookRiot.com You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (click here) or via RSS [...]
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”It is a truth universally acknowledged that a dominant man in possession of a good set of cuffs must be in want of a much younger, submissive wife.” The press release for Spank Me, Mr. Darcy caused a bit of a stir here at Book Riot. I imagined the story of Pride and Prejudice reworked [...]
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This round of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Biographile. Love true stories about fascinating people? So do the folks at Biographile, a website dedicated to helping readers discover a rich mix of real lives through author interviews, news updates, reviews, essays, contests, and more. One of their latest Q&As is an exclusive interview with the hilarious comedian and actor [...]
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I spend a lot of time paying attention to book trailers these days. I keep an eye out for really good ones that we might want to feature on BookRiot.TV, and I got pretty interested when I saw the first trailer for Rick Yancey’s newest novel The 5th Wave. I noticed that it was kinda short. [...]
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Clearly, if we all had an unlimited budget, we’d fill our houses with staircases that doubled as bookshelves. Because: awesome. Of course, most of us don’t have unlimited funds. And using regular stairs as bookcases might seem romantic at first… …until someone slips on your spare copy of Moby-Dick and ends up in the hospital. [...]
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With the release of the Ender’s Game trailer, people are remembering and once again highlighting OSC’s homophobic rhetoric. So, they’re coming to terms with that… while still kind of wanting to see the movie.
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The paint on my worn out ol’ library soapbox is getting rather chipped these days, but I’m about to get back up on it, my friends. Brace yourselves. (The soapbox should probably brace itself too, poor thing.) There are two recent library-related articles on HuffPo to which I’d like to draw your attention. The first [...]
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No. I can’t be. I can’t be the only person on the internet who genuinely liked the Great Gatsby movie. There have to be other people on the internet who liked Baz Luhrmann’s eye shadow and rap song covered-adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s so-famous-probably-ice-bacteria-on-Mars-have-heard-about-it novel. I thought a lot worked in this movie! No, really, [...]
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This week’s full text RSS feed is sponsored by Biographile. 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.* Love true stories about fascinating people? So do the folks at Biographile, a website dedicated to helping readers discover a rich mix of real lives through author [...]
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This week’s amusement is a bookish take on a familiar amusement: the word scramble. Can you unscramble these famous characters? (Answers right here when you’re ready) Good luck…. Beneath Teen Blitz Way Crack Rain Adverb Yo Mama Stern Hen Prey Her Renaming Ogre Catfish Tunic Sow Thin Mints Baggier Moths Gobbling Bias Socially Raw Salad Keenest [...]
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Here are the most read stories from the last week in Critical Linking… What’s interesting—to me—here is that while “word of mouth” tied for the top answer in my poll, what it tied with was the book’s cover, and the next highest answer was the book’s synopsis or an excerpt from it. Clearly, then, the [...]
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