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Can You Help the Madwoman In the Asylum?
Alex Michaelides relies on the long-standing tradition of female insanity in fiction in his suspense novel, The Silent Patient.

Melissa Gouty
Jul 23, 20206 min read


Create Marginalia in Every Book You Read
Marginalia is the practice of writing in your books, sometimes called literary vandalism. But if the great authors could do it, so could I.

Melissa Gouty
Jul 11, 20207 min read


On Reading Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad in the Aftermath of George Floyd's Death
Reading Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad was a different experience now than it would have been before George Floyd's death.

Melissa Gouty
Jul 1, 20203 min read


Is There Bad Blood Between Publishers and Libraries?
Internet Archive created a National Emergency Library giving unlimited access to ebooks to an unlimited number of people. Publishers sue.

Melissa Gouty
Jun 3, 20205 min read


The Interesting History of the Ever-Popular “Beach Read”
Sizzling summer reads started around 1900 when affluent people leflt the city and vacationed at the shore with plenty of time for reading.

Melissa Gouty
Jun 1, 20204 min read


The Surprising People-Finder in The Book of Lost Friends
Lisa Wingate's The Book of Lost Friends teaches history. Freed slaves try to find family and friends by placing "Lost Friends" ads in the So

Melissa Gouty
May 28, 20206 min read


Book Talk Makes the World Better
The world needs book talk. No doubt about it. It’s a great way to bring people together. Whether online or in-person, talking about books is

Melissa Gouty
May 19, 20206 min read


Exciting News! The 2020 Pulitzers Have Just Been Announced
The list of Pulitzer Prize winners in Fiction, Nonfiction, and general Nonfiction has been announced. Add these to your reading list.

Melissa Gouty
May 6, 20203 min read


The Guilt and Grief of Discarding Your Books - And How to Avoid It
Think twice before discarding your treasured books. Getting rid of a book is like tossing out an old friend and can produce feelings of guil

Melissa Gouty
Apr 29, 20206 min read


Why the Backlash from American Dirt?
If you live under a literary rock, you may not know about the furor that has erupted over Jeanine Cummins’ novel, American Dirt, released fr

Melissa Gouty
Apr 28, 20209 min read


A Simple Way to Get More Pleasure From Reading
Reading is supposed to be fun. Sometimes we read for information. Sometimes we want a different viewpoint. Sometimes we read for pure pleasu

Melissa Gouty
Apr 22, 20202 min read


The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian's newest book is a book about a pathogen that starts a global pandemic. How does the simultaneous real-life pandemic affect

Melissa Gouty
Apr 20, 20203 min read


Fragrance Smolders in the Pages of The Scent-Keeper
If you take a deep breath, you’ll smell the beautiful perfume of the pages in Erica Bauermeister’s book, The Scent-Keeper.

Melissa Gouty
Apr 14, 20204 min read


Five Things You Should Know About Book World Now
Many of us want to write a book and then publish it with the hope that thousands — maybe millions of people (be still, my heart) — will read

Melissa Gouty
Apr 13, 20204 min read


If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman
Hannah Beckerman's novel, If Only I Could Tell You, shows how easily a family can fall apart and how hard it is to put back together.

Melissa Gouty
Mar 31, 20203 min read


Be Like the Cellist of Sarajevo to Overcome Fear
Music lifts us up during times of crisis as proven by the Italian balcony singers and the book, The Cellist of Sarajevo.

Melissa Gouty
Mar 23, 20203 min read


Feeling Discouraged? Read Lily King's Writers & Lovers for a Boost
Lily King's novel Writers & Lovers tells of the struggles of creative life, of finding love, and of determination to make dreams come true.

Melissa Gouty
Mar 20, 20203 min read


Eight Books to Distract and Delight You Right Now
Now is the time to stay home and catch up on all those books you’ve wanted to read in the past, but didn’t have time. Sheltering in place do

Melissa Gouty
Mar 18, 20206 min read


The Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellenga
I kept thinking about that as I read Robert Hellenga’s novel, The Snakewoman of Little Egypt. It almost sounds like the opening of a joke: “

Melissa Gouty
Mar 17, 20203 min read


How to Sell 60 Million Books in Spite of the Critics
The critics hated The Bridges of Madison County, but the tactics Robert James Waller used in his novel made the readers love it. 60 million

Melissa Gouty
Mar 4, 20206 min read
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