He concocts his schemes on Oolong Island, which is somehow not the stupidest sentence I will type today. On his island hideaway — which we later learn is off the coast of North Korea — he builds rockets and blows up anyone who tries to spy on him. Despite being a weird giant egg man with a pun for a name, Egg Fu is respected/sanctioned by at least some faction of the Chinese government, as he has a whole army at his disposal....
Small Change by Roan Parrish This is the novel that inspired me to write this list! I love how it genderflips the usual script of the nurturing woman who brings a grumpy, intimacy-challenged guy out of his shell. Ginger is a prickly queer tattoo artist who finds herself falling for the sweet guy Christopher who just opened up a sandwich place down the road from her shop. She is working her ass off to pay off her business, keep up with her painting, and in general fighting an uphill battle against her family’s heteronormativity and the sexism in her industry....
Now, my favorite format for a bath read will always be a mass market paperback. If they fall in the water, it’s not too hard to dry them, and you can hold the book with one hand. Baths are the perfect place to crack open a book and not care what happens to it. The following books do not all come in mass market paperback, so feel free to read in whatever format you prefer....
Are you the cottagecore reader with their picnic blanket? The librarian in their cozy cardigan? The dark academic with a paperback in their pocket? The collector with their hardbacks neatly in a row? The insomniac with their dog-eared pages? Or are you the cozy autumn reader with their hot chocolate and knit sweater? There’s no real way to lose when you’re taking this quiz, because we’re all readers here. But of course, I’m sure some of you will go into this quiz knowing which aesthetic you think are, and some may come out somewhere else entirely....
It is part of why these books are so beloved and why so many Jane Austen retellings come out year after year. And why so many readers (including the one typing this post) feel so attached to her characters. But before you take this Jane Austen villain quiz, let me give you a warning. None of the outcomes are good. I mean, who wants to think about how they are similar to rogues like Mr....
I read Jacqueline Wilson’s The Illustrated Mum in my early teens. Even though our circumstances were very different, Wilson’s 10-year-old protagonist Dolphin’s story resonated with mine. In my childhood, I haven’t come across a lot of books that portray the darker side of families. Dolphin’s mother, Marigold, was bipolar. She was a binge drinker, subjecting Dolphin and her sister Star to her dramatic mood swings and extreme emotional instability. In Marigold’s agitated, withdrawn, and sometimes delusional temperament, I saw my father....
Jade, Jenny, Mads, and Summer rule their glittering LA circle. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls only dream of—until the night of Jade’s sweet sixteen, when they crash a St. Andrew’s Prep party. The night the golden boys choose Jade as their next target. They picked the wrong girl. Sworn to vengeance, Jade transfers to St. Andrew’s Prep. She plots to destroy each boy, one by one....
My first subject: Race for the Moon! The Context Race for the Moon ran for three issues in 1958. If you’re unfamiliar with history, the first page fills you in: the year prior, the Soviets launched Sputnik, the first-ever artificial satellite. America was so shocked and horrified by this development that they rushed to launch their own satellite, Explorer, in January 1958. Thus the “space race” began: not because two nations were invested in scientific discovery, but because they were desperate to win ideological points in the ongoing Cold War....
We’re declaring May 8th “Toni Morrison Day” and the first official Riot Reading Day. “First” because we’re going to do this several times a year–pick a release we can’t wait to get our hands on, plan a bunch of content around it, and invite you to have a holiday with us. Heck, we’ll even write you an excuse note for work! Each Riot Reading Day will look different and will be tailored to the book and author we’re celebrating, and the selections will be as diverse as the writers and readers who make up our community....
Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways. A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion’s biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend’s New York City mansion. This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name....
An electrifying debut novel about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstance but relentless in their search for one another. Shobha Rao’s Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within. Friendships are so important to us that we proudly make bracelets, wear BFF pendants, and even have funny quotes about true friends being in the jail cell next to you. We love and need our friends, and just as important to us are the friendships we feel a part of when reading....
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa This memoir, by a Canadian woman embarking on a two-year teaching stint in Bhutan, initially seems like it’s going to be an amusing travelogue. But it ends up being much more. It’s a very smart, very well-written reflection on relationships as they are or aren’t affected by cultural differences, including a suspenseful will-they-or-won’t-they romantic narrative. —Christine Ro...
I’m a former teen librarian, and over the course of my career, I had two parents bring issues to me with materials available in the library. In one instance, a parent was upset that her 12-year-old was listening to a book where the main character’s father was a playboy father and called it completely and utterly inappropriate for her child. In response, I wrote that parent a letter and agreed with her: perhaps it was inappropriate for her child....
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If you are unfamiliar with Patricia MacLachlan’s book, it is about a widower named Jacob Witting and his children, Caleb and Anna. Anna narrates the story, and I always thought that she and I would be good friends. Needing help raising his children and running his farm, Jacob advertises for a mail order bride, and Sarah Wheaton from Maine arrives by train to be his new wife. Caleb adores her immediately....
Today, though, I’m not here to defend my undying love for these tacky and offensive works of art. I’m here to celebrate them! If you, like me, want to prominently display Satan Was a Lesbian in your home (I have a canvas print of it hanging in my living room), or cover your fridge in pulp magnets, or even incorporate them into your fashion choices, read on! Lesbian Pulp Decorations Enjoy a mug of coffee or tea while gazing at these steamy covers!...
Quick intro to this typology system: the Enneagram is made up of nine basic personality types. Each is identified by their respective number. One of these types is dominant, so consider it the core of your personality. Here’s a quick sketch of the diagram, courtesy of me: Each type has its own set of characteristics which make up the core of your personality. But it’s not that simple because humans never are....
Now that the weather has warmed up, some of that same drive and energy are moving from the kitchen to the backyard in the form of grilling. Given our new found love and comfort in the kitchen, it seems only right to spruce it up. Let’s take a look at an array of bookish kitchen utensils, decorations, and other goods to create a whole new chapter for your kitchen....
There’s a reason for that. Stephen Graham Jones is a prolific Indigenous author whose debut came out in 2000. He has more than a dozen novels, plus many novellas, short story collections and anthologies. I mean, Goodreads lists 175 distinct works of his — and I counted the amount of anthologies featured on his website and there were about 104. Which just makes the lyrics, “How do you write like you’re running out of time?...
I have made the definitive list of superhero teams, and I have not left even a single one off, so you don’t even need to comment, AND I have decided with great authority their strengths and weaknesses that you will definitely agree with, so uh no worries there, either. (That was sarcasm, and if you had a hard time, HOLD ON TIGHT for the rest of this post, I guess)....
