“I was very, very unintentionally smart in that I started it as a short story, I genuinely believed it was a short story, which was good, because if I hadn’t sat down and said, I’m now going to write my first novel I’d probably still be working on but because it was a short story […]
Next week, Zeroes, by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti, hits bookstores everywhere. The first in a trilogy that reads like a mashup of X-Men: First Class with season one of Heroes (we’ll just pretend those other seasons don’t exist), it’s a thick book of superpowered excitement that’ll leave readers anxiously awaiting the next installments. It’s the first in […]
Even though we’re well into the new year, the weather is still pretty vicious out there. While a lot of us were given a surprisingly warm holiday season, we’re paying for it now, with blustery days and frigid evenings. But as we all know, the best cure to fight the cold is a snuggly blanket, […]
If you are a Proper Book Nerd (and we’re assuming you are), then you’re almost certainly hoping to find your fairy-tale style, happily-ever-after ending with a fellow Proper Book Nerd to match. Though we can’t promise you’ll find your bookend this year, we can offer something almost as good: a list of nerdily bookish love stories […]
Being the Flawless Human that she is, Taylor Swift is clearly top-notch BFF material. Let’s face it, she just gets us. All of her songs are like perfect little completely relatable stories distilled into three minute sonic gut-punches. Listening to her sing about love and betrayal and heartache makes you wonder how Taylor could have possibly […]