When your head hurts, your stomach aches, fever spikes, or you’re just plain not feeling well, what do you turn to? Anything that’ll make you feel better. Soft blankets, soup, and a good book. As I’m sick right now, I started thinking about what books make me feel better, with a rather simple criteria: Does […]
Read more "Seven Books To Read When You’re Sick"You guys, today is so exciting. Pulitzer Prize day always gives me a spate of new material to read, and usually leads me down a rabbit hole of great reporting, alongside a few new books, plays, and collections of poetry that I have to buy. As I haven’t read all of these, I’ve just done […]
Read more "Books Inspired By The Pulitzer Prize Winners"HOT DOG! (I’m sorry that I said that, but there was no other way to begin this post.I mean, there was, but my brain is deep fried at the moment. Sorry.) Dog books are usually, well, sad. The dog usually dies. And I’m sorry to tell you, but some of these books will have the […]
Read more "4 Dog Themed Books for National Puppy Day"I’m sure you know an indomitable woman. Perhaps you are one. Literature has always been one of the greatest windows to real women in media – with the paucity of good roles for women and women of color in film and the over sexualization that permeates the music industry, women are canned and pressed and […]
Read more "6 Indomitable Fictional Women For International Women’s Day"It’s fucking miserable outside. That’s all there is to it. And for some of us, we may be sick and tired of binge watching Netflix. So, if you still have electricity (you ought to if you’re reading this!), head over to Amazon and download one of these books to get lost in a wintery tale. […]
Read more "Books To Read When Snowed In"If you’re like a particular sect of middle America – that is, the sect that uses Pinterest obsessively, you may know how Christmas has, in the select few homes of people who have a lot of extra ambition lying around and few outlets for it, there are glorious Christmases. The kind of celebrations that put […]
Read more "The 12 Recs Of Christmas: Christmas Eve Pajamas"Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Bob’s Burgers does not seem in itself particularly Christmas-y. It does not seem particularly Hanukkah-y or Kwanzaa-y or any type of holiday-y. Too many Ys, but you get the picture. It follows Bob Belcher, his wife Linda, their three children Louise, Gene, and Tina, and a whole cast of […]
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