What makes for good reading in medical office waiting rooms? 50 Books To Read If You Love Medicine, perhaps? Or scanning the pages of Her Cocky Doctors while waiting to go in to the MRI for a brain scan? My heart is already pounding. My blood pressure is already high. What will they find? Reading In Medical Office Waiting Rooms Surely appropriate medical office waiting room reading is not Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal....
The Best Virginia Woolf Books Orlando Most people would start you off with Mrs Dalloway. Woolf’s novels can be daunting, and many readers (including myself), assume before reading her work that she is a stuffy old lady writing about stuffy old stuff. But in Orlando, Woolf devastatingly satires gender roles and gives a shockingly clear and vivid portrait of a shift in gender identity. Orlando goes to sleep one night a man and wakes up a woman: Woolf walks the reader through the shift in pronouns from he to they to she, and then leaves it to the reader to decide whether this shift is due to magic or simply due to how Orlando presents herself....
The Man Who Stole Unpublished Manuscripts Back in the summer of 2021, I remember hearing whispers about agencies and publishers receiving requests for manuscripts from someone who was very cleverly impersonating industry professionals. In August of 2021, Vulture published “The Spine Collector,” an investigative piece that attempted to discern the identity of this person, their scope, and why exactly they went to considerable lengths to steal early manuscripts only to apparently not do anything with them....
The History A married pair of children’s educators, Garry Cleveland Myers and Caroline Clark Myers, first created Highlights in 1946. It remains family-owned till this day. Aimed at ages 6–12, the editors packed it full of engaging learning materials such as stories, brainteasers and puzzles. According to their website, The Myerses believed that children best developed from a mix of “using their creativity and imagination; developing their reading, thinking, and reasoning skills; and learning to treat others with respect, kindness, and sensitivity....
If you have this problem, you might try rereading your favorites on audio. Here are some reasons I think audiobooks are a fabulous way to get more rereading into your life: Audiobooks are an easy way to do more rereading while still leaving time for books you haven’t read before. For me, audiobooks are extra reading. I listen to them during the times I can’t pick up a print book or my kindle—during my commute, while washing the dishes, etc....
Dazzlingly opulent and emotionally riveting, Anna K: A Love Story is a brilliant reimagining of Leo Tolstoy’s timeless love story, Anna Karenina―but above all, it is a novel about the dizzying, glorious, heart-stopping experience of first love and first heartbreak. We all have our own unique relationship with the classics: a work that beguiles and ensnares one person may intimidate another, what bores one reader to tears may be the inspiration behind their neighbor’s sleeve tattoo....
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo I read the unabridged version when I was fourteen. Why? Firstly, I was in a musical theatre production that had a Les Mis medley number. It became a challenge amongst the cast to see who could read the whole book first. Secondly, I also had my first major knee surgery around the same time which left me with a lot of down time for reading. Do I remember any of the book?...
Most of these were advertisements to perfumes, and they always intrigued me. How had they – whoever “they” were – managed to pick up a scent and encapsulate it within the pages of a magazine (apparently) forever? How could I scratch that scent over and over and still be some left for the next person picking up the magazine? It was the closest to magic I remember being able to touch and experience....
These are all instant downloads via Etsy, so you don’t even need to wait to get needling. Shakespeare Cross-Stitch Patterns This Othello cross-stitch will keep you busy for a while. It’s really eye-catching, too. $9. For beginners, try out this “Though she be little, she is fierce” cross-stitch. $4. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” Indeed. $4.50. Thanks, Hamlet! $4. This sassy cross-stitch is great: “Stop making drama....
The program includes 21 camels and serves 33 rural Ethiopian villages, and all of them are making the switch to solar. The tablets allow children to continue their education even as COVID-19 has kept many of them out of school. Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books.
The LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving It’s a classic ghost story, how could it not be on the list? I grew up in Mount Vernon, New York just 25 minutes from Tarrytown, so this story holds a special place in my heart. I would take yearly trips to Sleepy Hollow with my class and was immediately enamored of the Hessian soldier searching for his head. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman Like every other book that has been made into a movie, don’t expect them to be alike....
via GIPHY March 2020 Spring New Releases Actress (March 3, W.W. Norton & Company) by Anne Enright Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother’s celebrated career and bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother’s and her own. Katherine began her career on Ireland’s bus-and-truck circuit before making it to London’s West End, Broadway, and finally Hollywood. Every moment of her life is a performance, with young Norah standing in the wings....
A lifetime of secrets. A history untold. No. It is a simple word, uttered on a summer porch in 1936. And it will haunt Kitty Milton for the rest of her life and its consequences will ripple through the Milton family for generations. Moving through three generations and back and forth in time, The Guest Book asks how we remember and what we choose to forget, and tells the story of a family and a country that buries its past in quiet, until the present calls forth a reckoning....
If you want more information on the Enneagram of Personality which has a long and muddy history, I recommend starting with Wikipedia’s summary. There are a ton of resources out there for understanding Enneagram as a whole and your own type (as well as a million excellent memes and other graphics on Instagram that will remind you of the “I’m in this photo and I don’t like it” meme), so be aware there’s a big old rabbit hole waiting for you to fall down if you haven’t already....
From Nebula Award winner Sam J. Miller comes an uncanny ghost story… Ronan swore he’d never return to Hudson, but his father is ill and New York City’s distractions have become too much. Once back in town, he reconnects with two friends from high school. The three mourn what their town has become—overrun by gentrifiers and corporate interests—and craft a plan to rattle the newcomers, exposing their true motives. But in doing so, they unleash something far more mysterious and uncontainable....
I am the worrywart owner of both a Kindle Paperwhite and a Kindle Fire, paranoid about damaging them (my children do not share my concern). So I still do most of my reading out of the house via paper and ink medium. I keep a roaming Little Library in my car, and spend a lot of time reading hardcovers and paperbacks while my kids play on the weird little playground the shopping center we visit once a week installed in the middle of the parking lot....
In July, the app Tertulia was launched, promising streamlined book discovery. “In a world full of rich discovery services for movies, music, television, and fine art, there is, remarkably, no existing equivalent for books. And that is what we have spent the last eighteen months working on,” says Sebastian Cwilich, one of the app’s founders, in a news release. The app is currently only available on iOS, though. But Cwilich says the web version is coming this fall and the Android app will be launching in 2023....
A Later Start Here’s a fact that should cheer up writers over 30 who are still waiting for their big break: Isabel Allende didn’t publish her first novel, the acclaimed The House of Spirits, until she was 40 years old. Despite that later start, Allende would go on to publish, as of 2022, 25 books that have been translated into a combined 42 languages. According to her website, her books have sold over 75 million copies, making her one of the best-selling Spanish-language writers in the world....
Names/Faces You Probably Already Know Cravings: Hungry for More by Chrissy Teigen This is a great follow up to the model and television personality’s first cookbook by the same name. The recipes range from blueberry pie–inspired pancakes to something called Pad Thai Carbonara. Now & Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas for Reinventing Leftovers by Julia Turshen Recipes focused on leftovers and reinventing the classics from the bestselling cookery author of Small Victories....
