Jane Austen Heroines Ranked by Badassery
Folks who haven’t read Jane Austen might imagine her heroines and plots to be strictly domestic, mild, and, well, perhaps a bit weak. But the reality...
A Magic Beyond: A Guide To Harry Potter Music
The music of Harry Potter and the wider wizarding world movies are an integral part of our experience of these beloved stories. I can’t begin to...
Stay Up To Date With These 2020 Literary Calendars
Looking ahead to the start of a new year and all that it has to offer? Then you’ll know, of course, getting your hands on a...
How Libraries Are Dealing With Bedbugs
In August 2012, a patron at the Wichita Public Library was bitten by a bedbug. A flurry of activity followed: the library called pest control, delved...
Read Harder: A Book That Takes Place in a Rural Setting
This list of books with rural settings for the 2020 Read Harder Challenge is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations. TBR is Book Riot’s subscription service...
Of Course a ’70s Cookbook for Orgies Exists: Critical Linking, December 17, 2019
Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose...
How to Create a Gantt Chart in Google Sheets
A Gantt chart is a commonly used type of bar chart that illustrates the breakdown of a project’s schedule into tasks or events displayed against time....
NoSQL and automated databases – “DBAs can be the thought leaders”
JAXenter: Which issues do database management and monitoring currently have? In what ways can they profit from cloud technologies and automation? John: One of the biggest challenges...
Tour of Akka Typed: Cluster Singleton and Routers
In part 5 of this series, we started to scale the application from a local one to a clustered one by introducing Cluster Sharding. In this article,...
A Year in Reading: Terese Mailhot
I made the commitment this year that I would try to be happy. My best friend died last September. She was the fun one who took...
