Slate’s books team selects the definitive works of reporting, memoir, and argument of the past quarter-century. By DAN KOIS and LAURA MILLER “As a writer, I prefer to get bossed around by my notebook and the facts therein,” David Carr wrote in his reported memoir The Night of the Gun, one of Slate’s 50 best […]
Originally posted on rachelmankowitz:
I have discovered that three out of four writers can stand for two hours at a book signing event, and I am the fourth writer. I did stand for the short presentations, where each of us described our books, though I had to lean on random pieces of furniture while the…
Originally posted on JULI HOFFMAN:
I finished Calling All Minds: How To Think and Create Like an Inventor by Temple Grandin, Ph.D. earlier this week. It’s a relatively new book, as it just came out in May of 2018. It’s marketed towards kids, but I enjoyed it. It teaches children the history of patents and inventions and…
Originally posted on Discover:
Want to read more than 100 famous works of literature in no time? John Atkinson, the cartoonist at Wrong Hands, has the perfect book for you. In Abridged Classics, just published by HarperCollins, he compiles super-succinct summaries of literary classics in the light-hearted, humorous style that his blog readers have grown to…
N. Lloyd Hewitt, Writer, Stoic, Previously obese and 150 pounds down…answers: There’s a handful of books that has changed the way I look at many things. But one book in particular changed my entire perception of life. A book called: The Denial Of Death by Earnest Becker Of course, people interpret and experience books differently. […]
Originally posted on Midnight Incandescence:
SO many years later, so many recommendations later, I finally jumped on the bandwagon – that is the bandwagon of joy and happiness and ALL the feels because ohmygod this book! “Words were different when they lived inside of you.” This is a beautiful book, everyone must, must, must read,…
Originally posted on Romi Reads:
Today I’m introducing something new: monthly overviews! These will consist of blogposts and reviews I have published during the month. In November I have written a total of fifteen posts, so in this post you can have a quick glance on what I’ve written about! Reviews: – Jane of Manchester by J.G.…
by Alexander Hislop (Author) Fully Illustrated High Res. Images. Complete and Unabridged. Expanded Seventh Edition. This is the first and only seventh edition available in a modern digital edition. NOTHING is left out! New material not found in the first six editions!!! Available in eBook and paperback edition exclusively from CrossReach Publications. See below for […]
Originally posted on Amaan Khan:
Toward the end of his life, my father began presenting many signs of senile dementia. For instance, several times a day, he would call out for Rita, plead with me for a chance to meet her–Rita, a woman who was not my deceased mother and whom I had no knowledge…
author: James S.A. Corey Humanity has colonized the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond – but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his […]
