Ah, numbers. They push our buttons, spur fights on Facebook, and help generate cool-looking charts that make us seem smarter than we are. Much trickier is extrapolating their meaning. Case in point: the chart you see here, created by novelist Nicola Griffith. Griffith looked at the winners… Continue Reading
With summer on the horizon, now is the perfect time to compile a reading list. This time around, I’ve decided that my list is open to female writers only. I don’t need to get into a diatribe here about how female authors are ignored, or forgotten.… Continue Reading
If you’re like me, you always need more books for your reading list, and there are a couple of notable new releases coming up that I thought you’d want to know about. By the way, for monthly lists of new… Continue Reading
Back in 2009, the term New Adult (a genre of books about 18-25 year-olds) was coined by St. Martin’s Press, and people have been wetting their pants over it ever since. Said pants wetting usually involves a lot of judgmental commentary (“Why… Continue Reading