Books

And while every book reader has an individualized perspective on what makes a good book, sometimes there are books that appeal to the satisfaction of every type of reader. Getting into a reading with no idea what to expect can be a rush that most readers enjoy. However, every now...
Emily Henry’s novel Book Lovers will be adapted into a feature film. Movie rights have been sold to Lia Buman’s Tango production company, and the film will be written by Sarah Heyward, known for “Girls" and “Modern Love.”...
someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also trying to corral our kids back to Hawthorne and Hemingway, Dante, and Dickens....
The series is said to be a season for each book. So season one, for example, would be “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” and so on. It has been 12 years since the last Harry Potter movie, and times are changing, and so will the series. Many wonders fill...
Classic literature also reveals our dark history and possibly dark present in a way that whitewashed history books do not. This can be seen in books like The Scarlett Letter, which reveals the way a women’s sexuality was seen back then, or To Kill a Mockingbird, which holds the unfortunately...
In my sophomore year of college, I took an English course with a young, fiery-tongued professor; who used the class as a…place to vent his worldly frustrations, as well as an incubator for the future. We traipsed through books that could also be journalistic variations on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle....
For those of you who don’t know what “Booktok” means, I will give you the rundown. It’s a new take on a book club in the form of social media. On the app, TikTok readers all over the world express their favorite books and come together as a community to...
For decades society has been a victim of censorship, whitewashing, and banning. Either history is told a different way, or it is retold in hushed tones. As if shouting, it would erupt mass chaos and destruction. Book banning can be seen in two ways: either an attempt at shielding younger...
Improve your finances, boost your productivity, develop your emotional intelligence, and enhance your personal branding by listening to these 7 amazing books in your free time....
Since a very young age, I have been obsessed with books. Series like The Berenstain Bears, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and even Cam Jansen was a big part of my childhood. However, it wasn’t until I read Harry Potter, along with Charlotte’s Web, that I truly understood how people...
Oprah Winfrey started her famous book club back in 1996, and she just chose her 100th book–Ann Napolitano's “Hello Beautiful”. Oprah, known as the “queen of books”, said the book pays homage to Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women”. “Hello Beautiful” follows four sisters over three decades in the city of...
To read or not to read, that is the question. The required reading in high school was enjoyable for some and bothersome for others, but the literature left an impact either way. There are a lot of fascinating stories behind the novels we all grew up reading. So without further...

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