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They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: April 24, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting popular titles that are freshly out in paperback. * ...

Our Reading Lives: Meeting My Author Idols

Wednesday morning saw me driving like a mad woman to get to the convention center before the exhibit floor opened ...

Genre Kryptonite: Drug Addiction Memoirs (a.k.a. Books to Get Hooked On)

This installment of Genre Kryptonite is a guest post by Rita Meade. Rita is a librarian who lives and works in ...

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, ...