R.A. Montgomery’s Choose Your Own Adventure books were an ever-present part of childhood for ‘80s and ‘90s kids. Popular at both school libraries and book fairs, they were a game as much as they were a book, more accurately described as “interactive fiction”—taking the infinite possibilities idea of video games and applying it to text. […]
Everybody knows a hardcore comedy fan. That person who has a Simpsons quote for every occasion, or who can discuss and recommend comedy albums the way a music person can key you in to a band you’ve never heard of. There’s so much comedy out there to consume, from movies to TV to standup, but books […]
Did you dream of reading bedtime stories to your kids and debating the merits of Matilda versus James and the Giant Peach over dinner, only to realize the-book nerd gene has skipped a generation? Or at least got buried way, way down below the drawn-to-the-screen gene? If you’ve ever found yourself looking around the breakfast […]
