books
The happiness diary
In the 1920s, the writer and psychoanalyst Marion Milner began a diary – and found a way to retrain her mind for the better. In December 1926,...
newstatesman.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
All hail the queen of rom-coms : It's Been a Minute
Happy New Year! Pop champagne, kiss a loved one, and turn on the rom-com that made New Year's Eve a backdrop of your fall inspo...
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Every Book That You Can Read FOR FREE on SimonTeen.com in January 2025
Did someone say new Free Reads? Yes, that’s right, we did! And we are so excited for January’s Free Reads. This month’s...
simonteen.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Alabamians flocked to public libraries in 2024. Here were the most popular titles
Despite a trying year in the political crosshairs, public libraries remain one of the most used institutions in Alabama. In fact, 2024 was a big year...
www.al.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Ask A Mystery Novelist : 1A
Writing a book can be hard. Add in the twists and turns of a mystery... Where to even start?! Three authors join us today to...
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
New Year’s resolution to read more in 2025? Here’s how to get going
Many Americans jump into January with goals to make the new year an improvement on their last, and this year people are looking to get...
ocregister.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Risky, Ephemeral, Revolutionary Prints
A survey of Mexican printmaking shows how enduringly the country’s illustrators blurred the boundary between art and the world of the working...
nybooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
NYPL top checkouts of 2024: From ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ to ‘The Covenant of Water’
STATEN ISLAND N.Y. — The New York Public Library released its list of the top 10 checked-out books in 2024, which includes some books that remained...
silive.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Parade's Year In Books: 2024 Roundup
Parade gathers together links to all the best book coverage of 2024. Here is Parade's year in books: a roundup of our best coverage in 2024. This...
parade.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Psychic Soup by Lynette G. Esposito
It has mushrooms.Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader’s...
deepoverstock.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
How to Make Miso Soup (The Hero’s Journey) by Frank Gallivan
Gliding open that storied steel door with foraging eyesI meet the usual suspects sitting listless in cracked tupperwaresleeping in creased beeswax wraps...
deepoverstock.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Most Anticipated Fantasy Books of 2025
There are lot of things to dread about 2025, and you don’t need us to remind you of them. But, thank goodness, we still have...
pastemagazine.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Ancient Greek Derveni Papyrus Is Europe’s Oldest Surviving Book
The Derveni papyrus, an ancient Greek papyrus roll from the era of Philip II of Macedon’s reign—probably from the years between 340 and 320 B....
greekreporter.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
8 Craft Books to Inspire Your New Year’s Writing Resolutions - Electric Literature
Many New Year’s Resolutions are health-centric—a promise to eat healthier, exercise more, or finally quit smoking. But for writers, caring for your...
electricliterature.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
2025 Travel Reading Challenge (8th Annual) - Traveling with MJ
Happy 2025! And wow, I can’t believe that we’ve been doing this travel reading challenge for 8 years! It started as a simple project with...
travelingwithmj.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book Review: Tim Matheson’s Excellent ‘Damn Glad To Meet You’
If you ever want to learn economics, just purchase books about entertainment and sports. It’s that simple. Considering antitrust alone, the whole profession could...
forbes.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
42 New Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy Books to Add to Your Shelf in January
Start 2025 off on the right foot by plunging directly into your resolution to read more books. Happy New Year, and happy new books! If “reading...
gizmodo.com
- 30+ days ago
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writing / books
The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024
It’s abacus and laurels time here at Book Marks HQ.We, the industrious and sun-starved Book Marks miners, have spent 12 months chiseling reviews from...
lithub.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Fear and Fertility in Elif Shafak’s Black Milk
Shafak exposes her terror over motherhood’s potential to devour creativity—a panic she imagines sharing with a parade of literary forebears. In the...
jstor.org
- 30+ days ago
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books / writing
Best Books of 2025: 11 Releases to Add to Your Reading List
Bookworms rejoice! A whole year of new books to devour is almost upon us. To help you prep, we’ve picked a selection of the...
anothermag.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
'Love of horror made me a bestselling author at 24'
Born in the early 2000s, Bill Wood grew up loving the horror genre. It started out with the not-so-scary Scooby Doo before he discovered in...
bbc.co.uk
- 30+ days ago
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books
Christmas Bureau fundraising reached $ 582,000 to help thousands of people with food, books and toys
Donations to the Christmas Bureau topped $ 582,000 this year amid a one-month fundraising flurry that helped offset the cost of holiday meals and...
spokesman.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
John Travolta's 'Pulp Fiction' and 'Grease' Land in Pluto's Top 10
Two of John Travolta's most famous movies have topped the charts on Pluto. Grease (1978) and Pulp Fiction (1994) are currently streaming for free and...
movieweb.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Dec. 29 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the...
dailynews.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
On (Not Quite) Making It
The view from the middle—where it is not as comfortable, both materially and spiritually, as it was a generation ago...
city-journal.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Electric Literature’s Most Popular Articles of 2024 - Electric Literature
Never far from the pulse, a quick glance over Electric Lit’s most popular articles from this year will tell you a lot about what...
electricliterature.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Must-Read Books Coming Out in January 2025
We’re kicking off 2025 with a group of AMAZING new releases! From a book packed with insights for people wishing to make a difference in...
simonteen.com
- 30+ days ago
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books / writing
Amazon’s 10 Books That Defined 2024
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Amazon’s 10 Books That...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Books we Loved in 2024
| FEATURED By the VOMB squad Although we skipped a cherished tradition in 2023, we just had to revive the “Books We Loved” for 2024. While social...
voicesofmontereybay.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Critics reveal their picks for the best and most important books of 2024
It's the season for year-end lists and we’ve got you covered when it comes to the best books of 2024. Jeffrey Brown sat down with...
pbs.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Best Books Coming Out in January
I’m stepping into 2025 excited and hopeful. For books, anyway. Other aspects of life arewhat they are. But with books, there’s a new release...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books / writing
The Most Anticipated Literary Adaptations Coming to TV and Film in 2025 - Electric Literature
It seems the films that withstand the test of time best are those that use well-written books as their source material. From classics like The...
electricliterature.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Coco Gauff’s Half-Hearted New-Year Resolution Might Just Be Inspired by WTA Rival Iga Swiatek
Coco Gauff has returned to her top form after a bitter-sweet run in the past season. The American sensation invoked positive changes to her coaching...
essentiallysports.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book Review: Anyone who sees a need for protest or action should read 'Resist!'
Throughout history, when decisions were needed, the answer has often been “no.” No, certain people don’t get the same education as others. No, there...
phillytrib.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Promethean Power of Burnout
In every creative life, in every life of passion and purpose, there comes a time when the animating spark grows dim and the muscle of...
themarginalian.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Has Rick Hendrick Written a Book About His NASCAR Achievements? Everything About the Legendary Team Owner’s Publishing Escapades
In 2024, Hendrick Motorsports not only celebrated its 40th anniversary by excelling on the track and having all its Cup drivers in the playoffs but...
thesportsrush.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Dragonlance Chronicles Collection Gets a Huge Pre-Order Deal
When you buy through our links, Comicbook may earn an affiliate commission. If you were reading fantasy and playing Dungeons & Dragons in the ’80s...
comicbook.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
January’s Best Book Club Books
What are your book club’s plans for 2025? Are y’all revamping things or just carrying on from 2024? One of my book clubs is on...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book review: Crais’ Elvis Cole returns, at last, in ‘The Big Empty’
Robert Crais' L.A. private detectives Elvis Cole and Joe Pike pick up where they left off after a three-year hiatus. In "The Big Empty,"...
sun-sentinel.com
- 30+ days ago
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December 2024 Deal Announcements
Adult Fiction Comics writer and artist Morgan Boecher‘s CHICKEN HEART, a humorous story of the trans coming out experience, to Liz Frances at Street...
lgbtqreads.com
- 30+ days ago
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Apocalypse, Constantly
Humans love to imagine their own demise. In 1985, when I was 9 years old, I watched the first episode of the new Twilight Zone, a reboot...
theatlantic.com
- 30+ days ago
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Chris Pratt worried that some jokes about Jim O’Heir’s Parks and Rec character were 'meaner than they were funny'
"If it's a joke, it's funny," Pratt says. "But if it's mean for the sake of being mean," that's a different story. Writing the character...
ew.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Top Book Stories Of 2024: An Eclectic List
As we bid adieu to 2024, here’s a quick look at some of our best-read books and author interviews that India Currents readers like you...
indiacurrents.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Brandon Sanderson was planning Mistborn movies AND a television show
Earlier in December, fantasy author Brandon Sanderson posted his yearly "State of the Sanderson" blog post, where he went over everything he'd worked...
winteriscoming.net
- 30+ days ago
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books
Atlas Six author Olivie Blake on what it’s like to be ‘a New Year’s resolution person’
Fantasy writer Olivie Blake jokingly tells me that she doesn’t know how to write a book. With eight adult fantasy novels and two YA...
polygon.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Beloved Celebrity Icons We Lost in 2024
For many of us personally, we suffered from a lot of loss in 2024. But as a culture, we lost some of our most beloved icons...
blackdoctor.org
- 30+ days ago
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movie & tv / music / books
Our 2025 pop culture resolutions : Pop Culture Happy Hour
As a new year arrives, it's only natural to have some goals in mind: What you want to achieve, what heights you want to hit....
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
This Library Exhibits Some Of The Greatest Books That Don’t Exist
Forget about the best books of 2024. The imaginary books on view at the Grolier Club—from The Garden of Forking Paths to The Songs of...
forbes.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
10 of the best books of 2024, according to these experts
Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and Gilbert Cruz,...
pbs.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Best Horror Novels: The 2024 Bram Stoker Awards, recommended by The Horror Writers Association
It's not too late to discover your favourite book of the year. Here, we offer a round-up of the horror novels garlanded at the Horror...
fivebooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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