What To Read When You Can’t Think About Anything But How the World Has Gone to Hell
Books to help you keep perspective when everything is awful Photo by Pim Chu I n the last month of 2018, the third millennium appears to be going...
38 Children’s Book Gift Ideas For Clueless Grown-Ups
Even the most confident adult can become paralyzed with terror when it comes to children’s book gift ideas. Whether you’re going to a baby shower, a...
Why Your PC’s UEFI Firmware Needs Security Updates
Microsoft just announced Project Mu, promising “firmware as a service” on supported hardware. Every PC manufacturer should take note. PCs need security updates to their UEFI...
9 Bookish Role Models for Your Toddler After They’ve Binged the New She-Ra
At a time when my 4-year-old daughter is suddenly leaning hard into culturally prescribed gender norms—”I can’t be friends with boys because boys are wild,” she...
Come Sail Away With Me: Ships on Ships
I haven’t been heavily involved in any fandoms since Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I probably did that fandom wrong—I hated both Spuffy and Bangel, primarily...
Best Epigraphs of 2018
Epigraphs are a lovely part of books—usually a fancy line from a very old work that the author feels in their soul. This year was (another)...
Why Are Libraries Important and More: An Autocomplete Survey
You know those celebrity videos by WIRED where they have a cute little poster with questions from Google’s autocomplete? I was curious about what Google wanted...
What My Experience In A Book Club Taught Me
Three years ago, I joined a book club. Little did I know what this book club experience would teach me in the long run. After endless...
10 Bright Books for the Darkest Night of the Year
Today is the winter solstice, which means it’s the darkest day of the year. If you are like me, your reaction to this will be to...
RIP To Reading Alice Walker. Long Live THE COLOR PURPLE.
In 2013, I was still fairly new to book reviewing. When I requested Alice Walker’s book, The Cushion in the Road, for review, I expected to...
