Game of the Thrones: Is THIS why Winds of Winter is taking so long for George RR Martin?
Back in 2011 Game of Thrones debuted, as George RR Martin published his latest A Song of Ice and Fire […]
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The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power: Vivid tale of lofty values triumphing over brutish forces
At the end of a perfect day in 2008, Samantha Power got a phone call that threatened to bring her […]
Read moreGame of Thrones: You won’t BELIEVE who George RR Martin originally planned for Iron Throne
WARNING SPOILERS FOR GAME OF THRONES AHEAD. The hit HBO series ended just as George RR Martin plans to with […]
Read moreShe’s So Unusual. Is She Magical?
Looking back on my childhood reading tastes, I realize that for a while I had an affinity for two kinds […]
Read moreNew in Paperback: ‘One Person, No Vote’ and ‘Where the Dead Sit Talking’
ONE PERSON, NO VOTE: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, by Carol Anderson. (Bloomsbury, $18.) Offering a history of […]
Read moreAnne Rivers Siddons, Novelist Whose Muse Was the New South, Dies at 83
Anne Rivers Siddons, whose popular novels, set largely in the South, took female characters on emotional journeys that touched on […]
Read moreWordplay: Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Eva, can I see bees in a cave? One day, given the right circumstances, you might ask that question, hiking […]
Read moreAs Cricket World Cup fever starts, be entertained by this book
Almost as much fun as bowling a maiden over! As Cricket World Cup fever grips the nation, even those who […]
Read moreOutlander: Dougal MacKenzie return plot EXPOSED in major book clue you missed
The Outlander star Graham McTavish recently gave an interview with sknr.net and it seemed to back up the theory that […]
Read moreMalcolm Gladwell on Talking to Strangers, Revisionist History podcast
With five New York Times best-sellers to his credit, one might assume Malcolm Gladwell would see no reason to switch up […]
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