#Genre

Riot Recommendation: Nonfiction with a Side of Self-Help?

I recently fell ass-over-teakettle in love with Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, which combines social history with a research-based ...

Jimmy Fallon vs. The Audies

The title is not meant to suggest that Jimmy Fallon has a problem with the Audies. I don’t know if ...

One Girl and her eReader

One time, my sister jokingly told me that she had only ever finished one book in her life: The Miraculous ...

The Well-Readheads: Me-Me-Me Memoirs

RJS: Okay, sugar britches, we’re talking about memoirs this week. My relationship status with memoirs is “it’s complicated.” When they ...

Orson Scott Card: Impressive or Offensive?

On this occasion, it seems like it was a little bit of both. On Saturday, author Orson Scott Card was ...

The Problem of Reading for Pleasure

Whenever I meet someone who says they love books, I am quick to ask them to list some of their ...

My Introduction to Girly Steampunk

  Steampunk: a genre which came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s and incorporates elements of science fiction, fantasy, ...

Russell Hoban’s Frances the Badger

Russell Hoban’s “Frances The Badger” #kidlit series was a staple of my childhood. My mom read Bedtime for Frances to ...

Which Classics Should Twilight Fans Read?

Every time a reviewer exclaims that Popular Modern Writer is the new Popular Classic Writer, you can almost feel the ...

Book List: Community, Technology and Loneliness

Why are so many Americans living by themselves? That was the big question in an article/book in the New Yorker I ...