This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Throughout the years I have grown a lot as a reader, and to this day I am still divided between the fear of missing out, and this stubbornness of making a point of not reading what everyone else … Read more
The neglected or endangered child—the orphan, the vagrant, the waif—is a character with deep roots in the Western canon. Beginning perhaps with the binding of Isaac in the Bible, this figure appears everywhere: in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, in Charles Dickens’s oeuvre and, more recently, in Toni Morrison’s. These stories … Read more
Jennette McCurdy – who claims she experienced abuse from her late mom, Debra – is standing by her decision to name her memoir “I’m Glad My Mom Died.” “I get that it’s attention-grabbing but it’s also something that I mean sincerely,” she said of the title during an interview on “Good Morning America” on Wednesday. … Read more
A large crowd attends Tuesday night’s meeting of the Regional School Unit 56 board of directors at Dirigo High School in Dixfield to discuss whether to keep a controversial book on gender identity and sexuality in the high school library. The board voted 7-2 to remove it. Marianne Hutchinson/Rumford Falls Times DIXFIELD — Regional School … Read more
Tendon How I Got My Job, folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Today’s installment: Sarah Thomas. If you’re a parent of young children, you might already be familiar with Sarah Thomas’s work. She’s the author behind Kalamata’s Kitchena hit picture book best described … Read more
IF NIETZSCHE WERE A NARWHAL: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human StupidityBy Justin Gregg320 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $29. “Human, all too human”: It’s a thought that occurred to me a few times while reading Justin Gregg’s “If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal,” and not just because the phrase also happens to be the title … Read more
Cracking open a good book can take you on an adventure — but sometimes, it’s not what’s on the pages, but what’s been left in them, that’s the most exciting. Sharon McKellar, a librarian at the Oakland Public Library has been collecting forgotten mementos left in library books. Now, she’s finally found a use for … Read more
Dota: Dragon’s Blood Book 3 debuts on Netflix on Aug. 11, 2022. Dragon’s Blood is Valve and Studio Mir’s attempt at presenting a more coherent version of the Dota franchise’s tangle of lore, and for the most part, Book 3 does a good job wrapping up the mess left behind from Book 2 — and … Read more
Today it was announced that renowned, award-winning, English illustrator and one of the parents of the British form of the graphic novel Raymond Briggs has died, aged 88. He had been suffering from pneumonia. Perhaps Briggs now has acclaimed work worldwide When the Wind Blowsa dark parable about nuclear war that was turned into an … Read more
Despite its title, Road to Nowhere has the conclusive ending. And a powerful one, at that. Christopher Pike‘s 1993 novel puts its troubled protagonist behind the wheel and shadows her every move and thought as she drives along the California coast one fateful night. The path ahead of her is unclear, but one thing’s for … Read more
