Do you need a book to take on a trip with the intention of reading it once you’ve arrived, only to zip right through it on the plane and spend the rest of your vacation thinking about it? Are you just looking for another title to add to that teetering stack of books on your night...
Best summer books of 2023: MoneyMorgan Housel, has hogged the bestseller lists since it was published in 2020 and with good reason — his tales of how people deal with the same financial situation differently, with far-reaching outcomes, are fascinating. ...
Sure, you could wallow in self-pity and doom-scroll TikTok in your bedroom until 2 a.m., but I have a better idea: books. Yes, betch, escape reality in some good ol’ books. If you’re craving romance, something more murder-y, or literally anything to pretend you are on holidayin...
100 Best Books of the Summer 2023, The Times A Little Life byHanya Yanagihara Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and celebrated as‘the great gay novel’, Hanya Yanagihara’s immensely powerful story of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance has had a visceral impact on many a reader...
I always look forward to the Buzz Books compilations. As a librarian, they give me ideas for collection development since library patrons are bound to be looking for many of these titles in our library in the coming months. As a blogger and reviewer, I also appreciate reading the excerpts,...
May 23, 2023 Why do we read books? Because our English teacher required us to over summer break, which meant we spent the first week of August sardining Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath into our brains, all the while wondering if every Great American Novel plodded along like that turtl...
School’s out, so there’s plenty of time for reading. Check out our picks for the best summer books for children and teens of all ages and interests, from patriotic picture books to adventures both fantastical and contemporary for older readers. ...
By Maureen Lee Lenker Published on August 21, 2023 11:05AM EDT Need a bit of summer loving? The romance novels of 2023 turned up the heat and brought lots to love, from explosive heroines to clever and quirky fairytale retellings. If you still need that perfect beach read, here's ...
Mud Cottage seems boring for Meg Lewis after London, until she hears a voice deep in the walls crying for help. Jankin has been imprisoned by a necromancer; Meg and her new friend Skander must release him via the Crypta, a network of tunnels and portals. Womack taps into the best fanta...
“too big to fail” largely remains and so, too, do bailouts. That was demonstrated in 2023, with the response to the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse. The problem, show professors Admati and Hellwig, remains a dangerous mixture of intellectual error with excessive power: ...