Conversation about Books, Music and Movies 
Not everyone is spending Valentine’s day waiting in long lines to be ushered to tables at expensive but nicely lit restaurants, hoping for a night worthy of gushing about on Tumblr. Some of us just want to curl up with a trashy romance novel. And I’d not deny you that[…]
How to Choose a Love Poem for Valentine’s Day There’s so much poetry out there. Where to begin? I’m not be so bold as to claim I can deliver to you the “best love poems of all time” as there are far too many and tastes vary wildly. Moreover, the[…]
So you have a special Valentine, and you want to do something adorable to make this Valentine’s Day one she’ll remember forever. Or perhaps you have your sights set on a guy, and you want to let him know he’s the one. Poetry has been the trick to woo choosy[…]
From the 1940s through the 1960s, readers loved to read cheap paperback crime fiction novels. From its earliest days, hard-boiled crime fiction was published in and closely associated with so-called pulp magazines and inexpensive dime novels. Books by well-known authors like Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, and Mickey Spillane, as well as by[…]
We recently featured some classic productivity books to help you have the best year possible. But there’s more to getting stuff done than having a system—you need the courage of conviction to follow through. And there’s more to having a great year than getting stuff done. To make this the[…]
7 Classic Life Management Books …and 9 Books to Grab if You’ve Already Read the Classics I don’t want you to think this is a list on career management. It’s a list on dream management. No, I’m not talking about lucid dreaming, I’m talking about making the most of the[…]
Three More Exercises Fitness Experts Love Best Last Friday we brought you the exercises fitness authors chose as their all-time favorites, and showed you how to do each one. When I was putting the post together, I realized it was way too much for just one post. Better to keep[…]
Your poor Mama and Papa—you are leaving them to pursue your adolescent dreams of living on your own, staying out all night and deciding what to feed yourself. Oh, and there is that bit about educating yourself in the process. While you are off digesting thousands of dollars worth of[…]
As part of our month-long health and fitness celebration, we thought it would be fun to ask fitness authors what their favorite exercises are. I used to work for a publisher who released a ton of fantastic fitness books, so I got in touch with some of the authors there[…]
