The Voice of the Tiger’s Wife
Téa Obreht’s debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife, is a mix of folklore, war story, and magical realism. With this bestselling novel, she...
Tessie Tames Her Tongue #ReadYourWorld
Multicultural Children's Books Day is here for 2018 (1/27/2018), and we were thrilled to review Tessie Tames Her Tongue, by Melissa Martin, Ph.D., with illustrations...
Top 5 Ways to Organize Your Books
There really are a million and one (and probably more) ways to organize your book shelves. And, yes, if you're around books for any...
Burn, Burn Away – Fahrenheit 451, Censorship … The Media Storm
This year has, in many ways, been a page out of a science fiction novel -- with fires, hurricanes, and other battles that took place in...
If you had to memorize a book, which would it be?
In Fahrenheit 451, Montag famously joins a community of outsiders who have each committed one book to memory. The author of that famously banned...
Banned Book: ‘Jacob’s New Dress’
Jacob's New Dress, by Ian and Sarah Hoffman, is suddenly at the very center of a whirlwind of controversy and debate, as the very latest...
Holding Humanity in Open Hand…
It's Human Rights Month in commemoration of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the U.N. General Assembly in December 1948.
Eleanor...
Within and Without – ‘The Great Gatsby’
With The Great Gatsby and other works, F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicled the Jazz Age of the 1920's. But, he also lived the life. He...
Top 4 Tools to Track Characters
When you're reading, you may just want to enjoy the book -- without regard to what is happening, or who is making all the...
Life Lessons from ‘The Scarlet Letter’ #Book
I've been thinking about Nathaniel Hawthorne today (and about his life lessons). It's his birthday, after all (or would have been if he was...
