Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: You Don’t Have to Play Chess to Be the Queen
I have three chess puzzles for you this week, but you don’t need to know the rules of chess for two of them. These two are...
Storystorm 2024 Day 15: Colleen Rowan Kosinski Hunts for Treasure
by Colleen Rowan Kosinski I’ve always been a “treasure hunter.” I’ll comb through yard sales, estate sales, and thrift shops searching for that piece of overlooked...
Humans Are the Most Alien Creatures
An excerpt from Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino In the beginning there is Adina and her Earth mother. Adina (in utero), listening to the advancing yeses of...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 15, 2024
Today’s Featured Book Deals $3.99 Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo Get This Deal $1.99 Fortune Favors The Dead by Stephen Spotswood Get This Deal $1.99 What...
15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Winter
Solstice has come and gone, but in addition to the returning of the light, we can also herald another excellent small press publishing season. What I...
FedEx announces its own commerce platform for merchants
Logistics company FedEx announced its own commerce platform called FDX today. The platform will likely compete against Amazon by offering merchants services like demand generation, fulfillment,...
New Year, Newish Reading Goals
Though I’m not exactly a “new year, new me” girl, there is something about the start of a new year that does force some reflection. Thanks...
25 of the Best Self-Improvement Books to Read in 2024
Leftover Christmas and New Year’s candy has been eaten, resolutions and goals have been set, and 2024 planners and journals have been broken in. Yep, we’re...
Winter Bookmarks for Cozy Reading
The weather outside is frightful, but inside with a book is so delightful! It’s January, and if you live in the colder parts of the northern...
The Most Shocking First Lines of Mystery Novels
“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.” Thus starts Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece Love in the...
