9 Great Books About Female Spies
As a teen, I watched the TV show Alias every single week without fail because I loved Jennifer Garner, and I love spy stories, but I...
Check Out These Library Checkout Card Inspired Goods
Things I miss from childhood include fancy Viennetta ice cream, Hi-C Ecto Cooler, and especially library checkout cards and due date slips. At my elementary school...
Shakespeare and Co. Reading List
The first famous English language independent bookstore on the Left Bank of Paris was started by Sylvia Beach in 1919. The bookstore immediately attracted English-speaking readers,...
Do the Hot Dudes Reading Know They’re Being Hot?
I have recently had occasion to start thinking about the Instagram account @hotdudesreading again, after many years without doing so. I wondered whether the account still...
Doing No Harm: A Look at Writing Suicide and Self-Harm in Fiction
Trigger warning: This post will discuss suicide and self-harm, and ways these subjects are portrayed in fiction and the media.The Society of Authors, the UK’s trade...
Title Trend: The Occupation’s Daughter
“The X’s Daughter” is an intriguing title trend that I have noticed for years.I call it a trend, because I feel like I’ve seen more and...
How Gail Carson Levine Helped Me Love Myself
Like any good middle class ’90s baby, I am a devoted fan of Anne Hathaway. Not Shakespeare’s wife, although she rules too, but the doe-eyed screen...
3 Upstate New York Hauntings Made for Comics Adaptations
The exact geographical boundaries of the region dubbed “Upstate New York” are a matter of debate: those from the City apply the term to everything that...
5 YA Books About Elections Hitting Shelves in 2020
Petrograd, Russia: 1917. Seventeen-year-old Katya’s life has been turned upside-down by years of war with Germany. Russia is losing the war, and soldiers are deserting in...
Everyone Is Buying Novels About Epidemics: Critical Linking, March 11, 2020
Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by “More than 70 years later, the global threat...
