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Reading Rainbow was the book lover’s dream show. Levar Burton hosted each half hour episode. All of the episodes centered around a theme, an animated read aloud, a field trip, and three books suggested by kids. How I longed to be one of those kids at the end of the show who presented a book. The show ran and reran for many seasons. I definitely had my favorite episodes. I shivered at the mysteries of ancient Egypt presented in Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki....

Despite their similar upbringings, each character has their own definitive flavor, driven in part by their special and unique superpowers. This is never more evident than in season 2 where viewers got to spend quality time with each character individually (with the exception of Ben and Klaus, ever tied to one another due to Ben’s deceased status and Klaus’s ability to speak with the dead) as they navigated the strange world of the early 1960s....

Prove your love for libraries in this 13-question challenge about all things library and information science. Maybe you’ve always been a library lover, but can you crack this quiz and prove it once and for all? Volunteer as tribute and test your library smarts go. As a freelance librarian with a Master of Library Science, I tried to craft a quiz that puts your library knowledge to the test with a range of super-specific questions and others any self-respected library fan should easily ace....

The Best Book Lights for Reading In The Dark If the best book lights aren’t calling out to you, it may be time to check out a lighted tablet instead. These are our favorite tablets for reading.

I’m not complaining, though. The whole point of comics is the integration of word and image, and if we’re going to read with art, the art may as well be engaging. And if you’re looking for some engaging visuals to lose yourself in while you absorb the story, I have some people I think you might enjoy meeting. Most Fashionable: Yûko Best Armor: Pretty Much Anyone Who Wears Armor in RG Veda Best Regalia: Leia Organa Best Everyday: It’s a Tie Between Nada… Best Everyday: …and Haruki Do you have any favorite comic or manga outfits?...

Until adult fiction catches up, I suspect YA will continue to be a big part of my reading life. Because sapphic YA has made up a significant volume of my reading for so long, I’ve noticed five general categories that they tend to fall into. Here are the five kinds of sapphic YA, with recommendations and examples for each. (Honestly, these would work for almost any queer YA, but my examples are all sapphic....

Besides, flipping a calendar page to the new month is so satisfying. It really feels like time is passing, and that you’ve accomplished getting through that month. It’s officially done now. We’ve got calendars here for readers, comics fans, and nerds of all stripes (let’s be honest with ourselves). There’s general bookishness, calendars about specific series, kids’ cartoon calendars, Marvel & DC options, and a ton of different Star Wars calendars to choose from....

I have taken all of the things I love about Book Lovers and sought out a small collection of books that compare favorably in each manner, beginning with one that I think is a fairly perfect comp all around! For even more romance recommendations, check out these reads like Beach Read, or try Tailored Book Recommendations for a personalized set of recommendations based on your exact taste. Almost no one knows Florence is the ghost writer for beloved romance novelist Ann Nichols....

Comic books still have a tendency to be associated with kids. Now, you know and I know comic books are for everyone, and there are some comics that are absolutely not for kids. When I went looking for the best comics bedding to snuggle with in winter, I was swamped with baby blankets, kids/single bed duvet sets, and a whole bunch of unlicensed DC and Marvel items. Okay, it was kind of cute to look at for the first page or two, but really frustrating by page 12....

Her question was this: can you refer to something as a manila envelope if it exists in a secondary world where there is no such place as Manila? I don’t think there’s a definite answer to this question, and the responses to her tweet brought up similar issues with Champagne, French braids, and German Shepherds. The problem here is that the English language is full of eponyms (words derived from names, e....

It can happen at any kind of giant bookstore – a national chain or a cavernous, one-off used-book warehouse. You just want to find a paperback and suddenly, you’re asking yourself why you didn’t think of churning out a bestselling werewolf romance. You think, “I’d never be as smug as that kombucha-swilling memoirist.” There are too many books to want. You don’t want any of them. You run a greater risk if you’re browsing a Narnes & Boble without any particular title in mind, but a craving for a good read....

So, for those who haven’t read The Love Hypothesis, the story follows third-year PhD candidate Olive Smith as she pursues her research on pancreatic cancer at Stanford. In an attempt to convince her best friend, Anh, that she’s over her ex, Olive falls into an entertaining fake-dating scheme with the aloof and disagreeable professor Adam Carlsen. When I’m really connecting with a book, I often fold down page corners to remember favorite quotes....

Sorry, I got sidetracked there. Now for the most part, these jobs tend to be the same across a variety of series and authors. They’re either booksellers or librarians. They’re baristas or chefs. I would say the possibilities are endless but really, it’s a small job pool when one actually looks at cozies as a whole. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. As the saying goes if it isn’t broken, then don’t fix it....

Years later, after leaving North Carolina and living in Manhattan, I returned to the suburbs of New Jersey to raise my son. This past summer, I started to feel worn down. Working full-time and then some, raising my child, and trying to have some sort of a life (and failing) all started to take its toll. I was struggling. I missed my grandmother, who died in January. I wasn’t writing....

The students then went to the main Jackson Public Library, which was whites-only, found the books they had requested, sat down, and started to read. I had the honor of sitting down with one of the Tougaloo Nine, the group of students who participated in the “read-in” that is intensely under-recognized as a pivotal point in civil rights history. Geraldine Edwards Hollis shared her stories with me, discussing the read-in, its legacy, and her own determination....

Keeping Viva Magenta in mind, I thought it would be fun to create a palate of books across genres, voices, and categories that utilize the color (or something very similar to it) as the focus of the book cover. This is your roundup of Viva Magenta book covers. Grab one or several and read your way through the Pantone color of the year. I definitely plan to grab some of these…and maybe a notebook in this vivid color, too....

The story follows Kya abandoned by her family as a child, surviving in a North Carolina marsh as an outcast in town. As an adult, she starts a relationship with Chase Andrews, only to become a suspect in his murder after their breakup. The movie releases in theaters July 2022. Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books.

A mental health memoir usually comes from the person experiencing the illness, to get insight to what it feels like to have your brain working against you. But the thing about mental illness — as well as any illness — is it belongs to the one diagnosed with it and also to everyone close to that person. It’s the child’s fear of one day having their own children and passing on their mother’s illness....

There There is Cheyenne and Arapaho author Tommy Orange’s debut novel. It was published in the United States on June 5, 2018, and has since received multiple awards: the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the 2018 John Leonard Prize, the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, and the 2019 Hemingway Fountain/PEN award, just to name a few. The New York Times called Tommy Orange’s debut novel “groundbreaking,” and said that Tommy Orange had an “extraordinary ability to invest a series of interlocking character sketches with the troubled history of his displaced people....

What is body positivity? Body positivity was born from the fat positive movement, a radical and revolutionary movement from the 1960s that spoke up and advocated for the rights of fat people. They revolted against size discrimination. In the last couple of decades, body positivity has been in vogue. Where fat positivity was specific in goals and aims, body positivity is a more watered down version, based on the idea that all bodies are good bodies and that every person has something—maybe even multiple somethings—they’re not happy with....