Anyway! I’ve come across some really delightful romances featuring gamers lately and wanted to pull a short list together of old and new books worth checking out. Team Phison by Chace Verity Phil is an older gay man who gets away from the stress of running a restaurant by playing video games. He plays the kind where you join teams online to complete missions, and meets some interesting people that way....
I am Latino myself, so this could be the reason I am genuinely enjoying memoirs written by my fellow Latinx people. Their stories are stories that I can relate to and their writing style is unique in a way that is just hard to explain. You could justifiably argue that I am biased. Fair enough. Either way, if you have not read any of my recommendations below, I suggest you jump on the bandwagon now....
And that description was completely and utterly accurate. As I read it, I felt this warm bubble of happiness release inside me. Everything about the book evoked all the emotions in me and I enjoyed every page Everything about this book stuck with me. How Linus fully came into his own personality and realized that he was somebody. The slow burn romance between Linus and Arthur. And the development of the relationship between the kids and him....
We met at a bookstore (I’m sorry, this is sounding much more like a romance novel than my real life is, I promise). We both worked there for many years, so it’s not surprising that we have amassed our own collections. Currently, while we each have bookcases in our rooms with the overflow, the majority of our books live on one wall of our living room, on floor to ceiling shelves that once stood in the bookstore....
Some titles tug at your heart strings, others are scary, and there are many other options, including titles that include numbers. Why numbers? They can convey the right message for the book; a number can be just as mysterious or significant as any word. In fact, numbers and numerical systems help us to understand and make sense of part of our world. Even the number zero (which signifies nothing) has an origin, according to History....
Charlie Jane Anders Anders wrote about the challenges she faced as a kid in the school system due to her Sensory Integration Disorder and how an incredible teacher helped her overcome it. The teacher motivated her with the opportunity to write and perform her own play: “It was my first work of creative writing. It was the first time I can remember feeling like there was a point to school,” she wrote....
Welcome to week two of celebrating queer horror here on The Fright Stuff! I hope everyone is having a wonderful Pride, and getting plenty of reading done in between events! Fun fact: I didn’t plan it this way, but there is actually one new queer horror book on this list for every month from July through November. So. You’re welcome. Let’s all pretend that I was actually that organized on purpose....
I do have to admit…since watching Episode IX, I’ve noticed a waning of sorts of my Star Wars love. And I wasn’t thrilled with Episode IX. In fact, I watched it with resentment and annoyance, if I’m honest. Maybe I’ll re-watch it (it hits Disney+ today) and maybe it will be different, but right now, my focus is on nurturing my love for the Galaxy. I am hoping against hope that eventually I’ll get my Leia movie (hello, Millie Bobbie Brown looks just like a young Carrie Fisher and we have the Leia material from Claudia Grey’s book about her teenage years)....
But sometimes we need a glimpse of sunlight. Sometimes, even if the landscape of a tale, or the world, is full of barbed wire and crumbling buildings, we need a glimpse of sunlight. We need hope. There’s more than you might think. Brother Nash by Bridget Connell (Titan Comics, 2018) I somehow missed Brother Nash when it dropped last summer, but I’ve found it now and that’s the important thing....
Jenny Lawson believes Halloween is the holiday that beats all others. From cheap costumes to creepy dolls to questionable candy, New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson gives us a hauntingly hilarious short story about her ongoing—and sometimes outrageous—Halloween life. Travel with Lawson back to where it all started, as a trick-or-treater in 1980s Texas. Discover how she rose to claim her rightful place as the queen of Halloween. Prime members read and listen to this short story, hilariously narrated by Jenny Lawson herself, for FREE....
They’re just thirteen ordinary kids in thirteen ordinary towns. Or is there something more eerie going on? Debut author Josh Allen masterfully concocts horror in the most innocent of places. Everyday objects suddenly become menacing and familiar spaces turn sinister. You’ll sleep with one eye open . . . because if you don’t, you might not ever wake up again. A glow-in-the-dark cover and thirteen eerie full-page illustrations by award-winning artist Sarah J....
Disclaimer: despite guitars, as an instrument, having roots in Hispanic cultures and most of the music today having its roots in cultures of color (especially Black cultures), most guitar books for beginners are put out by a company like Hal Leonard. Or, when they’re actually written by an individual, the authors tend to be overwhelmingly white until you get to more specialized books focusing on different styles like jazz or blues....
Cair Paravel from The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Cair Paravel, the capital city of Narnia, is the first magical city I can remember encountering in a book. The long empty castle located on a peninsula that you are first introduced to in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe seemed at once a little spooky and yet also very appealing as a place to wander around and live in....
GRAPHIC NOVELS ARE REAL BOOKS — Scholastic (@Scholastic) June 24, 2019 I’m uncertain as to why this is difficult for so many folks to accept, but here we are, yet again, having the same conversation. Graphic novels have pages. They have words. You have to follow the story from beginning to end, often both the main plot and several sub-plots. There are characters with agendas and needs and wants and the reader has to figure out what they are and make judgments as to whether or not those things are reasonable and moral and how they fit together with the needs, wants, and agendas of the other characters....
YA nonfiction covers everything topic-wise that adult nonfiction covers. There are memoirs and biographies, histories of events or individuals who changed the course of those historical events, personal essay collections, and more. They’re not just prose, either. Some YA nonfiction books are told through the comic format while others are told through scrapbook style formatting, allowing images and documents to pepper the prose. Some are also told in verse. One of the challenges of defining YA nonfiction books, though, comes from age distinctions....
If you’re a Hot Ones newbie, here’s a quick rundown of how the show works: Host Sean Evans interviews his guests—actors, musicians, comics, athletes, and more—in a bare-bones studio setup over a wooden paddle of ten hot wings. With each wing comes a new level of spice (based on the Scoville heat scale) and a new question. This innovative take on the interview means that as the interview progresses and the wings get hotter, guests are not quite as guarded as they might be in a typical interview, which allows Sean to coax out more interesting and perhaps honest answers....
When the world interacts with magic, I always wonder how it’s going to be. Complicated laws and harsh regulations, or free rein of magic and its consequences? Where is this place? Would I visit if it were possible? When the setting is as important as the characters or story itself, that’s a book you remember. The magical cities listed below are places I would definitely visit if they were real....
I started reading about teens early. In 3rd grade I eagerly moved from the children’s section to the YA shelves after discovering the Roswell High series by Melinda Metz. I channeled my excitement about getting older, all the dramas and freedoms I imagined would come with it, into these fictional worlds. Even a story about 16-year-old aliens felt instructional. As an adult, I haven’t been able to leave teen fiction behind, nor have I really tried....
There are some problems with the abundance of World War II fiction, as illustrated in this excellent article by fellow Rioter Senjuti Patra. One that stands out to me is that it is largely Eurocentric and white. This has begun to change: think Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson, or When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka. However, the subgenre as a whole is still so white as to be blinding....
To me personally, it has become quite clear over the last couple of years that the word “cozy” often involves all sorts of food related activities. And when it comes to reading, that means I absolutely adore reading cozy romance books about characters who love steaming mugs of chai, mouthwatering tacos, succulent cupcakes, and all sorts of other sweet treats just as much as I do. That’s why I’ve gone ahead and compiled a list of some of the coziest, loveliest romance novels perfect for the season....
