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Flowchart Friday: Dr. Seuss Edition

Whose birthday is it? Or whose not-birthday isn’t? Why Dr. Seuss would be one-hundred-eight right this minute! At BookRiot we’re ...

How To Spot A Reader

(image via Pinterest) 1.) They know more than you do… about everything. 2.) They often use words that you secretly ...

Top 5 Fake Bookish Twitter Feeds I Wish Existed

If you hang out in the bookish Twitterverse, you probably have at least a passing familiarity with such feeds as ...

Bookish Celebrities: The Men

During a recent conversation, the topic of celebrities that we (being a group of readers) would like to see at ...

Flowchart Friday: Writer’s Block Edition

Writer’s Block. Ever had it? It’s a giant bitch. Some people say deadlines shake them out of writer’s block. Those ...

The Kid Lit Creep Factor

So I was reading the bookselling news in Publishers Weekly and learned that the Curious George Bookstore, in Cambridge, Mass, ...

Good Writers, Bad Blurbs: A Top 8 List

For obvious reasons, established writers are usually very selective about which novels they’ll blurb. Perhaps, sometimes, they should be more ...

The Roald Dahl Survival Guide For Kids

Only two books have been so good to demand insomnia of me until they were completed. One was The Great ...

No Stopping the Linguistic “Linsanity”

By now, if you’ve been exposed to any form of media at all in the last week, you’re likely familiar ...

Flowchart Friday: The Case of the Long-Lost Sibling

Four NYT Bestseller-type authors are at a surprise party. The surprise? A long-lost brother, of course! How would each of ...