HOLIDAYS ARE HAPPIER WITH AUDIOBOOKS. Make your holiday travels, errands, cooking sessions, and all the rest more enjoyable by listening to an audiobook. From bestsellers, to thrillers, to self-care, you can find the perfect listen for any moment. Give yourself the gift of audio this holiday season. 2018 is drawing to a close and it’s time to consider how we want our new year to go. To help get us in the New Year’s Resolution/goal-setting/moving forward intentionally mindset, we’re spending this week talking about creating a new year/new you…plus audiobooks!...

The poets listed below continue this documentary trend, pushing it into new directions. Do yourself a favor and check out these volumes today!

Reading Can Be A Chore Is it blasphemy to say that reading can sometimes feel like a chore? It feels a little like blasphemy to admit it. But it’s true! When writing is your job, and it’s something you’re dedicating a lot of hours of every day to, stepping away from your own books to read more books can feel like such a chore. Especially when you’re reading books in genres that you write, or you’re reading books that you’re expected to write blurbs for....

The most famous of these groups are probably the Green and Yellow Lanterns, with the latter sometimes being referred to as “The Sinestro Corps” after their most prominent leader to date. Even casual comics readers have likely also heard of the Red Lantern Corps, and anyone who watched the animated series met at least a few Star Sapphires, Oranges, and Blues. But, in honor of the first GL’s 80th anniversary, and to cut down on the confusion for new fans—and old fans returning to the fold—I thought I’d write a quick and handy guide to the Lanternverse....

Good audiobook reviews center the narration, giving listeners a sense of the narrator’s performance. Rather than focusing on plot, character, theme, and prose, audiobook reviews take note of how well narrators perform accents, whether their tone matches the tone of the book, and what the narration adds to the overall experience of listening to the book. I’ve scoured the internet and come up with this list of the best websites offering good audiobook reviews....

Small disclaimer before we start. All of us Star Wars fans know that one fateful day in 2014, Lucasfilm announced that its entire Extended Universe (EU) would no longer be canon. So, for the most part, I’m going to focus on Jocasta’s story inside this new canon. But if I mention any moments from the EU, I’ll let you know! So without further ado, let’s go to a galaxy far, far away to meet Jocasta Nu....

Othering Fantasy and other genres often use their genre tropes to shine a light on real-world issues. Fiction as a whole speaks truth to power by looking at truth in a fresh light. The oppressed magic user is just another instance of this. Throughout human history, we’ve worked to dehumanize one another, to deem other humans as “other.” Different sex organs? Other. Different color skin? Other. Worshipping a different god or gods?...

It’s the first publication from Janelle Asselin’s new venture Rosy Press. I’ve been looking forward to it because there are so few comics that focus on romance. Since Fresh Romance was announced Marvel has hopped onto the romance train with its own forthcoming series Secret Love. Is Fresh Romance any good though? In this first issue we get three stories: School Spirit, Ruined, and The Ruby Equation. School Spirit didn’t grab my interest until two of the protagonists started making out in the car....

First off, this post is not a critique of, a condemnation of, or a complaint about ARCs (well, okay, maybe there’s a little complaining). I have received ARCs in the past, and been excited to receive them, and I’m always excited for other people who receive ARCs of books they’ve been coveting. I don’t have anything but admiration for those talented reviewers who masterfully navigate their way through NetGalley or Edelweiss (I never could figure Edel out to save my life) and leave behind eloquent, thoughtful reviews....

Pakistan has a long legacy of exquisite literature — in fact, the country bubbles with an abundance of women writers today, including Kamila Shamsie, Bina Shah, Sara Suleri, and Saba Imtiaz. But if we are speaking specifically of writing in Urdu, then you need to focus on poetry. Urdu exists for poetry — its cadence throbs like heartbeats, it rolls through the mouth and mind like cascading water. In short, it’s a beautiful language....

Jade, Jenny, Mads, and Summer rule their glittering LA circle. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls only dream of—until the night of Jade’s sweet sixteen, when they crash a St. Andrew’s Prep party. The night the golden boys choose Jade as their next target. They picked the wrong girl. Sworn to vengeance, Jade transfers to St. Andrew’s Prep. She plots to destroy each boy, one by one....

Plus, SFF fans are — for better or worse — super invested in their favorite authors and the worlds they create. So, once an author gains a following, why not keep it? Regardless, genre fiction has been all the rage in recent years. A 2015 article in Wired Magazine proclaimed in its title: “At Long Last, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Have Infiltrated the Literary Mainstream.” One side effect of this mainstreaming has been an increase in writers who don’t usually work within these genres publishing in them nonetheless....

Let’s talk about the health benefits. When you don’t have a book with you, what do you turn to when your commute is long or your friend is 45 minutes late to what was supposed to be an hour-long coffee date? Your phone, if you and I have anything in common. What is your phone full of? Harsh light, damaging to your eyes and maybe your brain cells and probably your skin, too....

Public Domain Books All books published in 1924 or earlier are currently in the public domain. They are not subject to copyright. These titles are the easiest to find for free on Google books. Simply conduct a Google books search for a title published prior to 1925. Narrow your results with the leftmost drop down menu, selecting “Free Google eBooks” rather than the default, “any books.” There, you will find freely available editions....

The complete list of audiobooks on sale is at Libro.fm.

The new series comes after a poorly received conclusion to the eighth season of Game of Thrones and will be based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood series. The story takes place in the land of Westeros 200 hundred years before everything in Game of Thrones, and will show the rise of the House Targaryen as well as the Targaryen civil war. Fans will be excited to see a Westeros that is familiar, yet very different....

Book adaptations have turned into my comfort watch. If I’ve read the book already, it feels like I’m returning home. If it’s the first time I’m learning the story, it just gets me excited to know more and more about it. Either way, book adaptations really have that something special. Here’s a list of more 2021 book adaptations you can be excited about! Based on: Nevertheless by Jeongseo Nevertheless tells the story of two people who are complete opposites....

It Ends with Us tells the story of Lily, a woman from a small town who has worked hard to become successful in Boston. There she meets neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid and sparks between them are immediate. Ryle is dead set against dating and romantic love of any kind, but he’s drawn to Lily and they start a fragile relationship. While she worries about what from his past makes him so love adverse, she doesn’t expect her past — in the form of Atlas Corrigan, her first love — to show up in their lives and threaten her new relationship....

Nursery rhymes, sometimes called by other names, have been recorded since the mid 1700s. However, they were popular as early as the 14th century. Learning and repeating nursery rhymes supports foundational reading skills. They serve as fun, easy-to-remember introductions to language for young children. The rhyming patterns encourage phonological awareness and can even support spatial reasoning and other brain development. When supported by music, nursery rhymes are even more impactful....

Sure, some epistolary classics — such as Frankenstein and Dracula — bear a passing resemblance to Paranormal Activity and Grave Encounters, but they lack many of the hallmarks that define found-footage, including the ever-present fear that the story itself may be a giant hoax. That’s not to say that found-footage horror novels don’t exist. In fact, two of the most famous examples of found-footage in literature, The Call of Cthulhu* and House of Leaves, happen to be two of the most famous horror novels ever written....