by Donna Tartt
If you like Greek myths, Latin, and death, then this book is for you. This group of friends makes the attempt to try and understand the gods. They believe themselves to even be gods. Mortality is for the weak in this novel.
My year of reading women around the world started off with a bang with my January book, Wayétu Moore’s She Would be King. Thus, I jumped into February with equal tenacity, excited to delve into yet another work that would help me explore more traditions, more cultures, just . . . more.
February’s book is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing. This book seemed to come to me almost by some divine inspiration, as it was given to me by a close friend before I had told anyone about this project.
Officially: the snow is driving me bonkers. But on the bright side, the slippery sidewalks, icy roads and frigid temperatures have given me more than enough cause to kick back with a book series. Unfollow by Rob Williams and Mike Dowling, a long-completed Vertigo title, is the one I picked.
At the end of 2018, I was dreading the thought of the new year. For whatever reason, New Year’s Eve has always been my least favorite holiday, probably because new year’s resolutions are the bane of my existence. My perfectionist self can’t handle the thought of purposefully guaranteeing that I will begin every new year with an inevitable failure.
But, at the end of 2018, beaten down by the exhausting cycle of bad news and plagued by the realization that, according to the Screentime app on my iPhone, I’d spent on average over three hours PER DAY mindlessly scrolling through the internet, I decided to commit myself at least to read something other than Twitter in 2019.
Reading is a far more personal, solitary hobby than, say, playing hockey or gushing over the MCU with your closest friends. Just because you’re a reader, doesn’t mean you’ll automatically devour anything handed to you over the holidays, and just because you prefer fiction over nonfiction (represent!), doesn’t mean you like all types of fiction. If you’re scrambling at the last minute to find a gift for the bookworm in your life, or if you just want to treat your shelf, take a look at our gift guide below:
Summer is coming to a close and autumn is running up the road to greet us. This means the weather will be turning cool and crisp, which is just lovely weather for reading. And there are many books to read out there in the lovely weather that is coming up. Well, I have combed through some of the upcoming releases and I am here to help you with a few ideas of what to grab off the shelf.
Uprooted by Naomi Novik is a book that fully drew me in. I was at work and could only think of getting home to keep reading. It takes place in that long ago time where fantasy stories like to live. In a valley put upon by a malevolent power called the Wood. A force that comes from the forest to steal or kill people and livestock, sometimes it swallows a whole village.
If I could bring a little bit of magic to the muggle world, these are the five Harry Potter spells I would use the most.
You find this great book, you devour it, love it, recommend it to everyone, then find out there is going to be a movie. At first you are excited! A whole new group of people will experience this story that you love. But then as the promotional material comes out, you begin to become concerned that the movie will be nothing like that book. You then try to maintain hope that it will be good, but end up being disappointed in the movie.
Being a book nerd doesn’t necessarily mean you’re the smartest person in the room… but it usually means you’re the most likely person to try and sneak a book into a party. Tony Stark is a known genius (billionaire/playboy/philanthropist), but can you really picture him contentedly curled up with a book and cup of coffee on his down time? He’d go stir crazy and invent a robot to download the information into his brain, or something.So without further ado… Here’s a list of our favorite super-powered book nerds.