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One Girl and her eReader

One time, my sister jokingly told me that she had only ever finished one book in her life: The Miraculous ...

The Well-Readheads: Me-Me-Me Memoirs

RJS: Okay, sugar britches, we’re talking about memoirs this week. My relationship status with memoirs is “it’s complicated.” When they ...

Orson Scott Card: Impressive or Offensive?

On this occasion, it seems like it was a little bit of both. On Saturday, author Orson Scott Card was ...

The Problem of Reading for Pleasure

Whenever I meet someone who says they love books, I am quick to ask them to list some of their ...

My Introduction to Girly Steampunk

  Steampunk: a genre which came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s and incorporates elements of science fiction, fantasy, ...

Russell Hoban’s Frances the Badger

Russell Hoban’s “Frances The Badger” #kidlit series was a staple of my childhood. My mom read Bedtime for Frances to ...

Which Classics Should Twilight Fans Read?

Every time a reviewer exclaims that Popular Modern Writer is the new Popular Classic Writer, you can almost feel the ...

Book List: Community, Technology and Loneliness

Why are so many Americans living by themselves? That was the big question in an article/book in the New Yorker I ...

“The Obsidian Blade:” Magic Doors, Time-Traveling Maggots, and Believing

This is a guest post from Pete Hautman, whose novel The Obsidian Blade is out now from Candlewick Press. Hautman ...

Review GPA: WILD by Cheryl Strayed

Wild by Cheryl Strayed Publication Date: March 20, 2012 Genre: Memoir Publisher: Knopf Publisher’s Synopsis: A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the ...