Why Golden Girls Forever Was the Greatest Holiday Gift I Got
Now that all the entries have been collected, including the packages brought too late to the post office before Christmas to…
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The Book Nerd’s Guide to Sick Days
Welcome to the Book Nerd’s Guide to Life! Every other week, we convene in this safe place to discuss the…
Return to Planet Digby in Trouble Makes a Comeback
It has been little more than a year since Stephanie Tromly introduced us to “Planet Digby” in Trouble Is a…
The Book Nerd’s Guide to Hating a Character
Welcome to the Book Nerd’s Guide to Life! Every other week, we convene in this safe place to discuss the…
The Mountain of Kept Memory Is High Fantasy Worth Remembering
A genre, in its simplest form, is an amalgamation of time-tested tropes, trusted throughout the ages to deliver a good…
The Best Secret Santa Gifts for Book Nerds
So you’ve divvied up the office Secret Santa list already, or you’ve set up a gift exchange among friends. Maybe…
The Perfect Gift for Hamilton Fans
In the chaotic, surprising whirlwind of 2016, let us not forget that the year’s biggest thing in pop culture was a hip-hop Broadway musical…
2016’s Most Pulse-Pounding Thrillers
What do you get the person who has everything? How about action, suspense, intrigue, romance, and drama? 2016 has been…
The Book Nerd’s Guide to Prioritizing Your To-Read List
Welcome to the Book Nerd’s Guide to Life! Every other week, we convene in this safe place to discuss the…
The Burning Isle Is a Grimdark Fantasy with Graphic Novel Flair
High fantasy has a tendency to ponder, probe, and observe, and record the results in great detail, and at great length.…
The Shadow of What Was Lost Introduces a Fresh Fantasy Voice
The joy of high fantasy is in the fall: the fall into a world with characters you understand and places…
5 Novels Written as Genre Parodies That Stand on Their Own
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say, even in the book world. There are plenty of great parody…
Certain Dark Things Is Urban Vampire Noir With Bite
A good Halloween read must embody number of key qualities: dark, of course, but not too bleak, with a little pep in…
The Book Nerd’s Guide to Non-Readers
Welcome to the Book Nerd’s Guide to Life! Every other week, we convene in this safe place to discuss the…
20 Shocking Moments from Two Decades of A Song of Ice and Fire, Ranked
It began as a book, as all the best things do. It was a good book, of noble birth, penned…
The Book Nerd’s Guide to Uncomfortable Fictional Crushes
Welcome to the Book Nerd’s Guide to Life! Every other week, we convene in this safe place to discuss the…
The Book Nerd’s Guide to Making Your Life More Literary
Welcome to the Book Nerd’s Guide to Life! Every other week, we convene in this safe place to discuss the…
The Book Nerd’s Guide to Experimenting With Genres
Welcome to the Book Nerd’s Guide to Life! Every other week, we convene in this safe place to discuss the…
Joseph Fink Talks New Welcome to Night Vale Books, His Favorite Characters, and When the Podcast Will End
Befitting its status as an anonymous city in the American Southwest, Night Vale can be hard to pin down. Sure, there are…
