I think the villains deserve a chance to shine. After all, they’re the ones who keep things interesting, aren’t they? What fun would the heroes be if they didn’t have anyone to challenge them? O: Otto Octavius P: The Paladin Corps Q: Q R: Ravana S: Sakurazuka Seishiro T: Taishakuten Closing in on the end once more. Where to next I wonder…Hit us up with any requests @BookRiot on the bird app!...
Poetry is supposed to be a drifting experience that we won’t always be able to grasp. This feeling of floating around, the dreamlike associative state we get into while reading poetry, is something I was trying hard to resist as years of academic training have taught me to be mechanical with my interpretations. After exploring contemporary poetry, I am finally learning to give away my need to find one singular theme....
A shy wallflower meets her dream man–or does she?–in the next book in New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James’ Wildes of Lindow series. Miss Viola Astley is so painfully shy that she’s horrified by the mere idea of dancing with a stranger; her upcoming London debut feels like a nightmare. So she’s overjoyed to meet handsome, quiet vicar with no interest in polite society — but just when she catches his attention, her reputation is compromised by a duke....
Well…yes and no. Yes, in the sense that Supergirl did have a romantic relationship with Comet the Super-Horse in the Silver Age. And no, in the sense that she didn’t know she was doing it, and so this is actually a story of a teenage girl being groomed and manipulated by a much (much, much) older man. Y’all, it’s creepy. Comet was introduced in 1962, when the Superman franchise was going gangbusters and constantly adding more Super-characters in order to capitalize on its own popularity (Comet was the fourth Super-Pet added, after Krypto the Superdog, Streaky the Supercat, and Beppo the Supermonkey)....
But I can’t imagine actually being able to pick up that romance and read it. It wasn’t very long ago that you could hardly find a romance featuring someone older than 25, and I’m still noticing now that most of the romance protagonists I read about are maybe my age or just a touch younger. They’re 30 and thriving, or whatever place they are in their lives. Maybe one of them is approaching 40....
Author and journalist E. Jean Carroll, best known for her longstanding “Ask E. Jean” column in Elle, accused Donald Trump of raping her in an excerpt from her new book published by New York Magazine. In the piece, Carroll writes that she encountered Trump 23 years ago at Bergdorf’s, the famous department store in New York City. The chance meeting turned creepy when Trump solicited her help picking out a gift of lingerie for “a girl,” and asked Carroll to try on a “lacy see-through bodysuit” for him....
Find below a collection of excellent octopus bookends that would look excellent on any type of space you have available for holding books. These range in price from affordable to downright splurge. The Perfect Octopus Bookends Choose from among some options for the color you’d like your burlap, but these pillow octopus bookends are super reasonably priced at $16 a pair. This set of eight-armed bookends is metal. Select from a few different color options, too....
The nearest town to where my family lived was half an hour away, and there were two grocery stores, a Walmart, and a hybrid fast-food restaurant or three. The unincorporated community where I grew up held no less than twelve evangelical churches, and no more than 700 people. All of this to say that, as a goth-lite wannabe poet who listened almost exclusively to Tori Amos and Metallica, I always felt a bit out of place....
If you’ve ever questioned the logic of basing an entire identity around what you have between your legs, it’s time to embark on a daring escape outside of the binary box… Open your eyes to what it means to be a boy or a girl – and above and beyond! Within these pages, you get to choose which path to forge. Explore over one hundred different scenarios that embrace nearly every definition across the world, over history, and in the ever-widening realms of our imagination!...
Huntington’s Disease is a fatal neurological degenerative disorder that isn’t transmitted or developed like most other diseases. Huntington’s Disease is genetic but tends to only manifest later in life, when most people would have already had children, which is one of the reasons it’s able to persist within populations. The disease is 100% fatal, and because it’s neurological, it is difficult to impossible to treat the painful symptoms as the condition progresses....
Crying at books is a wonderful thing, especially at books with a Happily Ever After or Happy For Now (HEA/HFN) waiting for you at the end. There is something incredibly impressive about a romance book that can make you cry. Objectively, romance readers know that everything will work out for the main couple in the end. They are romances after all. Nevertheless, we still cry when sad romance books warrant a deluge of tears....
I can picture exactly where the book sat. The school library I used from first through eighth grade had a central area for gathering students and only a single aisle of shelves on either side. I found the book in the left aisle — that’s where the fiction was — most of the way back, on the right side, at shoulder level. I can see the sunlight streaming in from the window at the end of the aisle....
When the 2021 results were announced on January 25, I couldn’t wait to see the winning titles — some of which I’d already read, and others which I immediately added to my list. This year, the stories offer AAPI perspectives on almost two centuries of life in America — from the Gold Rush era to early 20th century Hollywood to the World War II years, all the way to modern day....
I used to be a yoga-panted athleisure-wearing suburban soccer mom (by outward appearance; I neither do yoga, nor do my kids like soccer. Nevertheless she persisted). But now that I’ve immersed myself in the weeds of the Dewey Decimal system 635, Gardening, I want an English-cottage-meets-Japanese-Zen garden and new clothes. Gardening clothes. Fashion that signals I am a gardener, I care about pollinators. And that I have read everything that Andrea Wulf has ever written....
These women, on the surface, don’t seem like much. They are not traditional beauties. Their bank balances hover just above zero. They are easily distracted. They are also highly intuitive, fiercely loyal, and unbelievably lucky. And under the right circumstances, they can definitely be bad-ass. And, yeah, sometimes they can be bitches. But in a good way. Ditzy, Bad-Ass Bitch #1: Stephanie Plum Stephanie is divorced and living with her hamster in a one-bedroom cookie-cutter apartment....
Alanna of Trebond and I have a long history. I’m not alone, of course: there is more than one generation of people who were partially raised by Tamora Pierce. My mother bought me Alanna: The First Adventure when I was 11 or 12 years old because it had a horse on the cover. I was a voracious reader but was not inclined toward fantasy, so I was initially skeptical. The fantasy stories I had been exposed to up to that point felt humorless....
The bulk of these 2020 gifts for readers will be under that $20 mark, but because I found some really cute stuff for a little more than that, the expanded price range felt necessary. What I won’t say is the thing that annoys me most on gift guides, which is that these are all stocking stuffers. I don’t know about y’all’s families, but a stocking stuffer in my home was never more than $5 for a “big” item....
For fans of Black Mirror and Westworld, this compelling, mind-bending novel is a twisted look into the future, exploring the lengths we’ll go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimen and what it means to be human at all. Today our bodies define us. We color our hair; tattoo our skin; pierce our ears, noses. We lift weights, run miles, break records. We are flesh and blood and bone....
Fortunately, I didn’t get it that bad, but it did make me think about what comics might be most fitting for someone who is under the weather. Some people like to read about characters with troubles similar to their own. Others prefer pure escapism that allows them to forget about their current discomfort. So, after soliciting suggestions from my fellow Rioters, I divided this list into two sections, plus a secret third one, to accommodate each type of reader....
