Welcome to the Book Nerd’s Guide to Life! Every other week, we convene in this safe place to discuss the unique challenges of life for people whose noses are always wedged in books. For past guides, click here. Many of us read to forget, to escape the cold, cruel world we inhabit. We form book […]
So you’ve divvied up the office Secret Santa list already, or you’ve set up a gift exchange among friends. Maybe you’re lucky and you get paired up with someone whose tastes, preferences, and interests you fully understand—or maybe you’re not so lucky, and you barely know this stranger, let alone what kind of desk tchotchkes they […]
Season 7 of Game of Thrones is finally here—and somehow, already nearly halfway over! If you’re like me, and unsure how you’re going to pass the time between Sundays for the next few weeks—never mind the break between the season finale and the start of the next and final season, and double-never mind the agonizing […]
As is custom, it is a time of great joy and sadness for fans of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series and its TV adaptation-cum-companion piece, HBO’s Game of Thrones. On the one hand, Season 6 of the series propelled long-gestating plots into a torrent of action, resolving storylines and blowing up inconvenient […]