I have a Twitter account but I do not use said Twitter account. Not for any good reason other than the fact that I have zero self-control. If I were to hop on Twitter in the afternoon, the next thing we’d all know it’d be the evening of the next day and my husband would be begging for dinner (not really, he’s a full-grown adult who knows how to feed himself) and my blood pressure would be sky’s-the-limit high....
Content warning: There are brief mentions of racism and domestic abuse in the descriptions below. (The separate content warnings below are not necessarily for the scenes described, but for the complete novels, and may not be entirely comprehensive.) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf’s famous stream-of-consciousness novel includes a significant dinner that Mrs. Ramsay, the matriarch around whom much of the plot revolves, wants to be “particularly nice....
I am of the opinion that it is great to showcase our love for the things that bring us joy. And not only is buying merch that showcases our favorite things a good way to support an author, or a small business, it can also be a great way to signal to other fans that here we are, loving this thing, and we are willing to talk about it. It serves as a sort of invitation that can lead us to find common ground with other people....
“By now, you might know the phrase “compassion fatigue.” The original science focused on the secondary trauma that caregivers, like nurses or emergency technicians, would experience when helping people in distress. On a broader level, though, compassion fatigue is “caring too much and the pain that comes from it,” says Larissa Krauss, an associate clinical social worker who specializes in trauma and neurofeedback. The idea is one that’s entered our popular consciousness....
The second novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins’s compelling new Women Who Dare series follows a female rancher in Wyoming after the Civil War. A reporter has come to Wyoming to do a story on doctors for his Black newspaper back east. He thinks Colton Lee will be an interesting subject…until he meets Colton’s sister Spring. She runs her own ranch, wears denim pants instead of dresses, and is the most fascinating woman he’s ever met....
When Raya, a queer teenager, is caught with her love, Sarah, in an intimate moment, they are sent to a re-education camp meant to “fix” them and make them heterosexual. Mythology-obsessed Raya vows to assume the role of Orpheus in order to save them both. Orpheus Girl is a story of first love, heartbreak, family dysfunction, and adolescent resilience. It is infused with Brynne’s lyricism, yet also completely immersive and page-turning–a classic in the vein of The Miseducation of Cameron Post and David Levithan’s novels....
I’ve pulled together a range of some of the best fall bookmarks around. These include the usual suspects like pumpkins and leaves, but they also include some ghosts and cute woodland creatures. There are downloadable bookmarks, as well as ones you’ll treat yourself to through the mail; some will be fancy and some will be pretty straight forward. The nice thing about bookmarks is you can treat yourself without breaking the bank (unless, of course, you want to splurge, then go for it!...
Enter Florida, adding itself to the list of states removing books and literature from the hands of those who are incarcerated. The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has a list of 20,000 books that aren’t allowed in detention centers throughout the state, thanks in part to a 1987 court ruling that the department uses to restrict the First Amendment rights of the incarcerated. According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the interpretation of the ruling means that a publication can be banned if it serves “legitimate penological interest....
The projects that we have here are quick and cheap (most are free!), and can serve as the prefect de-stressing crafting session. They would make great, thoughtful, spontaneous gift options for fellow book lovers – and amidst the havoc the pandemic has been wreaking on our daily lives, your special reading buddies deserve an impromptu gift. Lot of these DIY bookmark ideas are non-fussy and useful upcycle projects for things that you have lying around the house....
I can’t think of a more millennial romance than Attachments by Rainbow Rowel. Twenty-something Lincoln O’Neill is a romantically-challenged perpetual grad student who’s just moved home. His new job as an “internet security officer” is basically a fancy way of saying he reads other people’s emails to make sure they are work-related. Beth and Jennifer’s emails are anything but work-related. But even though Lincoln has never met either woman, he finds the messages so engaging that he decides not to turn them in....
Generally speaking, I’m a nonfiction junkie. While I personally don’t believe that all nonfiction is “brain sorbet,” there is one particular sub-genre of nonfiction that I consume so often and so quickly it often leaves me at the wrong end of a sugar rush: the stunt memoir. In a stunt memoir, an author will pick a particular task or challenge and use it to radically change their life over some specified length of time....
Ira Glass made a great video about the gap between taste and ability: we get into creative work, he says, because we have great taste. But because we have great taste, we can see that our own work is not so good. It needs time and practice, which is what Glass advocates. (As it happens, Megan Mayhew Bergman spoke about this on a Reading Lives podcast as well.) The great thing about the writers on reading subgenre is that these are books written by people who have closed that gap....
Details are available now at bookriotlive.com! We’re getting rolling on what exactly the programming is going to be, but basically we’re putting it together as the book event we’ve always wanted to go to. The space holds just under 1500 people, so it’ll be big enough to support a variety of events, including familiar things like author signings, panels, and the like, and yet intimate enough so that small group discussions, how-tos, and meet-and-greets don’t get swallowed whole....
(And if you like this list of authors like David Baldacci, you should also check out The (Legal) Thrill is On: Authors like John Grisham.) 1.) Alex Segura Alex Segura is a novelist and AND a comic book writer. His best-selling Pete Fernandez Miami Mysteries is what gives him a spot on this list. We first meet Pete in Silent City. Pete is everything we could wish for in a PI....
Here is what happens when your mother dies. It’s the brightest day of summer and it’s dark outside. It’s dark in your house, dark in your room, and dark in your heart. You feel like the darkness is going to split you apart. That’s how it feels for Tiger. It’s always been Tiger and her mother against the world. Then, on a day like any other, Tiger’s mother dies. And now it’s Tiger, alone....
Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camp’s Director and his guards. Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today....
Ari Helix has been chased her entire life. A fugitive refugee in territory controlled by the evil Mercer Corporation, Ari has always had to hide who she is. Until she crash lands on Old Earth, pulls a magic sword from its ancient resting place, and becomes the forty-second reincarnation of King Arthur. Then she meets Merlin, who has aged backward over the centuries into a teenager, and together they must break the curse that keeps Arthur coming back....
Anecdotally, here at Book Riot we’ve seen a rise in demand for content about historical fiction. Luckily, there are plenty of new historical fiction titles out this year that readers can pick up now. Here are the 15 most popular historical fiction books, according to Goodreads, that have been published so far in 2022: Check out the full list of all 36 titles at Goodreads. Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books....
Emily, done up in her own She-Ra outfit—procured online because I have zero crafting skills—was dazzled to see her onscreen heroes come to life. She posed for them, holding her shield aloft before her, while the cosplayers cooed over my pint-sized superhero-princess. I felt slightly overcome with the warm fuzzies. Just a few years before, I’d started bringing Em with me to my local comic shop in order to pick up items from my nascent pull list....
Technical writing is low-stress, but not the most exciting work in the world. I edited forms, training documents, internal and external communications, and basically brought corporate style and grammar to documentation. My team was small and underappreciated. The healthcare company I worked for cared less about patients than it did about profits. When the opportunity to leave Corporate America and pursue an MFA in Creative Writing presented itself, I jumped at the chance....
