Fetch the popcorn, finalize your ballots, and strap in for glitz and glam: it’s awards season! The race for Best Picture may still be wide open (though The Big Short and The Revenant are the presumed leaders of the pack), but you’ve likely already decided on your own personal favorites. As is custom, a great many […]
It’s too easy to make fun of Dickens World. Who could look at the stuff of Dickens’s fiction—lonely orphans, child thieves, penniless cripples, domestic abuse that culminates in murder—and think, theme park? Located at the Chatham Dockyard in Kent, the park promises to guide visitors through the world in which Charles Dickens lived and wrote, but no […]
Everyone loves holidays. A whole day where you don’t have to go to work? A whole day where your boss is federally mandated to leave you alone? A whole day to do whatever you want?! For book nerds, that means a whole, beautiful, responsibility-free day to read stacks and stacks of novels. Except, well, there’s […]
While scratch-and-sniff technology may dramatically enhance the experience of reading certain children’s books (like The Gingerbread Family, by Grace Maccarone) it could make for a decidedly disgusting experience when it comes to other kinds of literary releases. Here are ten titles should never—ever—have scratch-and-sniff editions.