Sally Sparrow, Duck!
It seems almost paradoxical for a thing like time travel to have a history, and yet James Gleick, in his newest endeavor, has delved deep into both pop culture and science to bring us a deeply comprehensive history of one of the post popular tropes in science fiction storytelling.
The Art of Decluttering
Find motivation in these pages, as well as practical advice, to pare down your things and find what’s enough for you.
Take a Trip, Eat a Bite
Here are two books that are sure to make your summer travel plans unique and delicious!
Something Sweet for National Poetry Month
Poetic explorations of love, loss, trauma, self-doubt, and other challenges for young women.
Can we defeat fear by illustrating it?
Via Tumblr, Fran Krause crowd sourced confessions of people’s deep, dark fears and turned them into short watercolor panels, using the fear as a caption. This collection of those fears … Continued
Get Some Headspace
I never thought I had the time for meditation until I listened to Andy Puddicombe’s Get Some Headspace. More of an adaptation of Andy’s life than a how-to book on … Continued
For National Library Week, A Story of Books Lost and Found.
How the Nazi’s looted book collections all over Europe and the current efforts to correct that atrocity.
Don’t Get Scratched
On-screen catfights and femme feuds for viewing enjoyment
Travel to a Dangerous Past with Kindred
What if you found yourself suddenly transported into the past and you had no control over when you came back? What if the past was so dangerous that you wondered if you would ever come back at all?
The Nest
As the reader is plunged into the lives of the four middle-aged Plumb siblings who are waiting for and fighting over their inheritance, one cannot help but desire the oh-so-deserved comeuppance they are surely all due.