Conversation about Books, Music and Movies 
Spring is a time of renewal and regeneration, not just for the human spirit but for nature as well. A time to begin anew… As you take a look around, ask yourself what you can do to make your environment and the planet a better and healthier place to live.[…]
Gardening seems to have been around since 10,000 BC. That’s when historians believe people first started to enclose outdoor spaces to keep out animals and marauders. Today we may only have to enclose our gardens from pets and the mail man but we are still gardening. I remember when I[…]
There’s been a lot of hoopla around here about “back to school” but not every college student is new to campus. Just as the new freshmen arrive yearly there’s a whole new batch of graduates ready terrified to face the work force. As fellow bookworms, we think the answer is[…]
Back in my day, when we had to walk forty miles buck naked through the snow to get to school, journaling was a simple thing. There were no fancy-pants trinkets or tags in fancy fonts. There was little fanciness or fanfare. Our only stickers were Lisa Frank, and these were[…]
Alibris recently asked our community to tell us what their favorite dark fantasy books are, and we added some of them to our August Gift Guide. We were happy at the great response we got from our readers and hope you will check out our community pages and communicate with us[…]
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There’s nothing wrong with e-books. They’re convenient in so many ways. We love communication, the sharing of stories and ideas. If digital media gives us another way to share those things, so much the better. But just because there will most certainly be more digital books in the future doesn’t[…]
Sororities, by their very design as secret institutions, drive speculation and gossip about what happens behind their closed doors. Supposedly the devotion to volunteering and respectability that our grandmothers associate with sorority life have been replaced by depravity and abuse. But is it true? Bestselling journalist Alexandra Robbins set out[…]
This past Friday at San Diego ComicCon, the Eisner awards were given out to honor the best comics published in 2014. Many categories were honored, from best anthology to best writer. When many people think of comics, they think of short-form works like the Sunday morning newspaper funnies or single[…]
