For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] It was one of our favorites last year and so many of you also loved David Yoon’s Frankly in Love! Well prepare to fall in the love the paperback cover! With Frank, Britt and Joy all on the cover, this new illustrated look REALLY brings to life the characters. This new paperback cover will … Read more
[ad_1] One snowy morning, during my senior year at Williams College in Massachusetts, I threw my car into reverse and smashed into a truck that was parked behind me. I knew the truck belonged to a football player who was dating one of my housemates, but I was in a rush to get to my … Read more
[ad_1] It became clear to Jia Jia that Chen Hang must not have considered, not even for a moment, that such a place was improper for a death. These are the thoughts that surface for Jia Jia mere moments after she finds her husband dead in their bathtub. As Jia Jia awaits an ambulance, she … Read more
[ad_1] We all get a little stuck sometimes and need some help. Whether we’re overwhelmed with life, not feeling like ourselves, or in need of more balance, picking up a book can inspire you to make better choices and take positive action. These books can help you build better habits, explore what you’re capable of, … Read more
[ad_1] We all know that language has power, but do we all know why? Author Lisa Marie Basile takes a magnified lens to this conviction in her latest book The Magical Writing Grimoire: Use the Word as Your Wand for Magic, Manifestation & Ritual. Following her 2018 book Light Magic for Dark Times, which covers … Read more
[ad_1] Erik Larson is the author of five national bestsellers: Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White City, and Isaac’s Storm, which have collectively sold more than nine million copies. His latest book, The Splendid and the Vile, is an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the … Read more
[ad_1] In 1927 Virginia Woolf published “Street Haunting.’’ It’s a long essay that explores the imaginative act of living the lives of other people. Walking among London’s “islands of light, and its long groves of darkness” allowed Woolf the possibility to feel that “one is not tethered to a single mind, but can put on … Read more
[ad_1] Last year I set a goal of finishing a book a week. While I was able to read a lot of great new books, I felt myself missing the stories I’d already experienced. Now that I’m home and spending more time by my bookshelf, I’ve found myself gravitating back to my old favorites. Here … Read more
[ad_1] One can’t set a course without a map. A ship’s navigator seeks to map a world already inhabited in order to find a space for their ship’s passengers to settle. In doing so, they find their course altered as the world and their place in it changes. The blunt-nosed vessel—called Cradle of … Read more
[ad_1] During my last summer vacation before the start of my studies at university, I nervously walked into Prospero’s Books in Crouch End. As a teenager, bookstores terrified me as much as they fascinated me. In those vast rows of books, I saw a reflection of my utter ignorance of all the things I thought … Read more