Warner Bros. Film JUST MERCY Available for Free Streaming in June
Warner Bros. Pictures announced on June 1 that This comes in the wake of global protests against the homicide of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis,...
10 Nonfiction Books on Why We Need to Defund the Police
Why have the police become one of the most common perpetrators of violence in today’s America, rather than a measure of safety? It has been made...
Any Friend of Pickles on Pizza is a Friend of Mine
An excerpt from Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier Her name was Jenny Hauser and every Wednesday I put pickles on her pizza. The first time...
Running an Independent Bookstore in a Conservative City
Grand Rapids, Michigan, my hometown, is many things. A national poll proclaimed it Beer City, USA (the phrase appears frequently on bumper stickers and billboards). It...
21 Excellent Books With Happy Endings
If there’s ever been a time to escape into book with happy endings, it’s now. 2020 is not the time for novels that ambush us with...
15 Compelling Historical Fiction Audiobooks
Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres to listen to on audiobook. I’m fairly new to the genre as a whole and historical fiction audiobooks...
That Time Batman Was a Good Dad, Kinda
Dunking on the Dark Knight for being an emotionally constipated stick in the mud is practically a national pastime. I include myself in that, because seriously,...
Poetry Out Loud 2020 Virtual Celebration
Poetry Out Loud is an annual contest for high school students to recite poems. The Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts make it...
Keep Your Page Safe With These Lovely Ribbon Bookmarks
I’ve written many times how much I love a good bookmark, and more specifically a good bookmark which doesn’t harm or damage the binding or pages...
How I’m Using Byzans to Connect With Other Book Lovers This Quarantine
For years I’ve been wanting to join a book club, but living in a small town in a foreign country when I hadn’t yet mastered the...
