For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] Best Covers of 2018 Posted by Savanna, Assistant Editor on December 18, 2018 Every year, the BookPage editors get together to create the best books of the year list, but also its slightly more superficial stepsibling, the best covers list. It’s always a monumental undertaking to cut down and rank our extensive long list … Read more
[ad_1] Last week, The Folio Society unveiled its latest slate of books, including a new edition of Jin Yong’s A Hero Born, and of Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopian novel The Dispossessed. The publisher has been producing high-end volumes of classic literature for decades, and in recent years, it’s begun to churn out beautiful editions … Read more
[ad_1] “It’s a bad old world for young girls,” a sideshow entertainer observes in the breathless final pages of Curious Toys, the latest whipsmart thriller from Elizabeth Hand. That declaration would ring true even if the novel didn’t concern the serial murder of young girls in the early twentieth century. Sensing this, Pin, Hand’s fourteen-year-old … Read more
[ad_1] Digital Dalliances: Once Ghosted, Twice Shy Posted by Savanna, Assistant Editor on January 08, 2019 Every month, we review the hottest new romance releases in our Romance column. But why let the print books have all the fun? In Digital Dalliances, we highlight digital-only releases guaranteed to heat up your eReader. Once Ghosted, Twice … Read more
[ad_1] Might this be the year to tape an interview with your dad about his career-killing tirade, literally poison yourself with your mother’s cooking, or dump the kids at your ex’s house and disappear without a trace? Oh fine, those are all terrible ideas, but they’re fantastic premises for some of the most gripping reads. … Read more
[ad_1] The first season of the TV adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy premieres this weekend, and in an interview with Deadline, Jane Tranter, co-founder of the Bad Wolf production company behind the show, discusses the journey of bringing the book-to-screen adaptation to life, as well as future plans for the rest of … Read more
[ad_1] Burning Worlds is Amy Brady’s monthly column dedicated to examining trends in climate fiction, or “cli-fi,” in partnership with Yale Climate Connections. Subscribe to her monthly newsletter to get “Burning Worlds” and other writing about art and climate change delivered straight to your inbox. Set a little over a century from now, Kassandra Montag’s After the Flood depicts … Read more
[ad_1] Book excerpt: ‘Through Fiery Trials’ by David Weber Posted by Savanna, Assistant Editor on January 16, 2019 Science fiction icon David Weber has been having a very busy few months—a new Honor Harrington novel was released in the fall, and Through Fiery Trials, the tenth installment in his extremely popular Safehold series just hit … Read more
[ad_1] My upcoming novel, The Bromance Book Club, is funny. As a rom-com, it’s supposed to be. There are prat falls and fart jokes and men behaving stupidly. However, its message is not a joke. I’m tackling toxic masculinity one laugh at a time because I learned at a young age the power of the … Read more
[ad_1] The Twisted Ones is a Southern gothic tale told in the folksy, rambling charm of its narrator, Melissa. She is humble to the point of apologizing for not starting out the story perfectly enough, and appropriately goes by the nickname “Mouse.” When her ailing father asks her to clean out the home of her … Read more