Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for December 9, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of Today’s Featured Deals $3.99 We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz Get This Deal...
A Year in Reading: Arif Anwar
I’m on track to have finished a book a week in 2021, which I’m happy with given that so much of my time is spoken for...
Rosemary Mayer’s Tethered Histories
In June 1971, Rosemary Mayer began attending a women’s consciousness-raising group in New York City. She went with her friend, the artist Adrian Piper, and sometimes...
Fighting for My Marriage Came at Too High a Cost
It’s Friday, two days since I told my husband our marriage is over. I wake to find that the dishwasher, the washing machine, and the basement...
The Transformative Joy of A Good Breakup
Lee Lai’s Stone Fruit is the kind of book that stays with you. Since I finished reading it, the graphic novel has been lingering in the...
A History of Tijuana Bibles
The United States in the early 20th century wasn’t a hub of sex positivity or education, but there were exceptions. People still loved sex and reading...
Why I Don’t Just Read Cookbooks for the Recipes
If you ask me what my first love was, the answer will always be books. But if you ask what my second love was, the answer...
15 Delightful Art Books For Kids
As an elementary librarian, I work very closely with the art teacher at my school. Our friendship and the proximity of our workspaces is definitely one...
Quiz: Which Off-The-Beaten-Path Cat Book Should You Read?
Cats are all over literature, whether they feature prominently or peripherally or just pop in. And when writers incorporate cats into their works, they’re usually full...
Great Aunts of Literature
I have never wanted children of my own. Even when my friends and I played house as children, I was always the aunt, never the mother....
