Staff Picks: Browsing Bookstores
Contrary to my usual morning routine, I’ve been sneaking in my reading at night. After full days, those night-time sessions have been the only hope of turning off my brain. … Read More
Staff Picks
Mystery in the Wild
How come this topic never occurred to us any earlier? After all, we are writing these blog posts for students interested in biology, the environment, plants and animals, forests and … Read More
Staff Picks: Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather
How did you see the world when you were a kid? Did you paint pictures where the sky was bluer than blue and didn’t meet the ground at the horizon? … Read More
The Many Flavors of Crime Fiction
Like its older sibling, the mystery novel, crime fiction focuses on characters in high stakes situations. Whether they’re planning a heist, impersonating a dead man, or chasing a perp, these … Read More
Superheroes Among Us: Solito by Javier Zamora
We hear you, Chepito! This would be my message to the author of one of the most remarkable books published this fall on a topic that might divide the readers … Read More
What is Philanthropy … Really?
After recently writing a post on entitlement, I’d thought I’d blog about a topic that is quite the opposite – philanthropy. Also known as charity or giving back, this concept … Read More
Death is Not the End: Legacy Titles in Mystery
Poodle Springs sounds like an intriguing title alone. The eighth novel in the famous Philip Marlowe series has two authors listed, Raymond Chandler, the original writer of the series, and … Read More
Stephen King’s Scary Short Stories
As I’ve written about previously, short stories are quite different in breadth and depth than a novel. Like a snapshot in a photo album or a scene in a play, … Read More
Staff Pick: The Book Eaters
Devon Fairweather is a princess. She lives in a manor house in the countryside with her family. She is brought up understanding how special she is, that she will marry … Read More
Entitlement
As human beings we are all entitled to certain basic rights: Freedom, liberty, security, equity, etc. The United Nations even issued a Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. This … Read More