Becky Stone

Becky Stone loves to read stories about princesses who save themselves and firmly believes that a mug of hot chocolate paired with the right novel can solve almost any problem. Becky recently did that thing where you leave your safe, easy job to try to make money doing what you love, and is now a professional jewelry lover and freelance writer. You can find more of Becky at her blog, Diamonds in the Library, where she writes about both jewelry and books. Twitter: @DiamondsintheLi

I Wish JK Rowling Would Leave Harry Potter Alone

I remember when the first new story came out on Pottermore. My dad emailed it to me right away, thinking, ...

Gendered Genre Terminology: Books for Men

via GIPHY Let’s talk about men for a minute. The poor dears. We women get all these fancy terms to ...

Your Guide to the Ultimate Phryne Fisher Halloween Costume

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is an incredible Australian TV show starring a fiercely feminist crime-solving badass who is pretty much my ultimate ...

Donate Your Books to Prisons: What, Why, and How

When you research how to donate your books to prisons, the same phrase comes up over and over again: that ...

How To Use Your Harry Potter Stamps

When my (now) husband and I decided to use Harry Potter stamps for our wedding invitations, it seemed like a ...

Bookish Hedgehogs of Instagram

Ernest Hedgingway is familiar with his namesake’s work, of course, but he’s also passionate about YA. Here he is diving into ...

Dangerous Consequences of the Book Life

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...

The Gotham Book Mart Collection

It started as a trickle. First one book, then two. Three. Books were slowly saturating my Facebook newsfeed, popping up between ...

Dangerous Consequences of the Book Life

Like any extreme sport, hardcore reading has its perils. For example: The other day, I was absorbed in Elizabeth Knox’s Dreamquake while enjoying ...

A Romance Novel Virgin’s Guide to (Reading About) Getting it On

As you may know, the major event of the past year of my reading life was that I finally succeeded ...