For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] Georges Seurat’s painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte is a marquee visitor attraction at the Art Institute of Chicago. This painting of mid-19th century Parisians picnicking on the banks of the Seine is large, but the figures within it are made up of millions of tiny colored dots. To view the painting, visitors … Read more
[ad_1] Out with the old year and in with the new! We can’t know that 2021 will be a better year, but we can work toward bettering it together. And you know what the best fuel is for imagining your way into hope and change? That’s right: books. Books that remind us we’re not alone … Read more
[ad_1] In November 2001, a Japanese woman named Takako Konishi was found dead in the woods near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, not far from the border with North Dakota. According to a local newspaper article, she was believed to have frozen to death while searching for the ransom money buried in a snowbank at the end … Read more
[ad_1] Deciding what to read is one of those common choices that can induce indecision and anxiety. When it comes to what to read next, a lot of us can get paralyzed by the sheer number of great choices out there. Any time you have limited time to spend and a lot of options to … Read more
[ad_1] Rating: ★★1/2 Title: DeliriumAuthor: Lauren Oliver Book Review I loved the premise of Delirium so much – and there was some fantastic world building in here – but the main character killed the story for me (More on that in the spoilers section of this review below. Keep scrolling down if you want to … Read more
[ad_1] The grounds upon which A Bed for the King’s Daughter was passed up by English-language publishers also mark, perhaps unsurprisingly, the roots of its merits. Sawad Hussain samples these rejections in her translator’s note. That the twenty-two micro-fictions in Shahla Ujayli’s proportionately short collection were considered on the submission circuit to be “too short,” “too experimental,” or … Read more
[ad_1] Romance books are on everyone’s minds these days. Hello, even Shonda Rhimes was inspired by romance author Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series to create the pulse-racing Netflix show everyone’s talking about. But, of course, everyone has a different idea of what’s sexy, and therefore, which romance books might appeal to them. This list of five … Read more
[ad_1] Etymologies Years ago, long before the narration of her father turned unreliable, dissolving like one of those Sweet’N Lows in his favorite stale black tea, Nico would climb into his armchair and sit in his lap as he read The Phantom Tollbooth or Tuck Everlasting or any one of the hundreds of books … Read more
[ad_1] “The Artist’s Bookshelf” is a column about books that inspire the CHIRB staff’s favorite artists. Chicago indie powerhouse Tim Kinsella has eclectic taste to match his eclectic artistic output. On top of the musical acts for which he is most known, including Joan of Arc and Owls, he is also the author of three … Read more
[ad_1] Growing up, I wished for many things: to be Whitney Houston, have my own Babysitter’s Club, get perfect grades, meet Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid. But the one wish that topped all the others was a wish for blonde hair. Year after year, when the time came to blow out my birthday candles, … Read more