The Benefits of Reading a Book You Don’t Like
Mars is super-close to Earth this week; the closest it’s been in 10 years. On May 30, it will be about 46.8 million miles away from Earth, which means that all this week, you can go outside and get a…
Like most of us, I love a good reading nook.* And, now that the weather is (in theory) warming up, it’s time for outdoor reading! But how do you get the perfect reading area outdoors, wi…
Like misfortunes, fantasy novels rarely come singly.Maybe it’s because the great grand-daddy of the genre, J.R.R. Tolkien, wrote a trilogy with an in-universe standalone novel and collection of re…
In her essay “On Being Ill,” Virginia Woolf writes about the ways illness changes a person’s perspective, and occasionally improves it….we cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we bec…
Authors love to reinterpret H.P. Lovecraft. In fact, Book Riot has written about awesome Lovecraftian-inspired work before.2016, though, is feeling especially tentacular.Case in point: this ye…