10 Fictional Families We’d Love to Spend the Holidays With
The holidays are about spending time with your family. They’re also about drinking more wine than usual and stuffing your…
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7 Bad Witches We Adore
Books about witches are great every day of the year. I will happily read about witches on Christmas Day, Memorial Day,…
Easy Peasy DIY Costumes for Book Lovers
Halloween is the perfect time to love up on your literary muses. You can make a sandwich board and go…
Literary Astrology: Libra
Suave, romantic, and easygoing, but also indecisive and sometimes gullible, Libras, born between September 23 and October 23, are the…
5 Supporting Characters who Deserve Their Own Books
Pity the literary supporting character. Unlike television, which has never met a minor supporting character it doesn’t want to parlay…
Our Favorite Heroines of Banned Books
Being a character in a banned book is no joke—you’re dealing with enough sex, drugs, and violence to find yourself…
Literary Astrology: Leo
Born between July 23 and August 23, Leos are the kings (and queens) of the jungle. Natural performers who are…
5 Fictional Characters Who Deserved Better Than They Got
Sometimes nasty characters get exactly what they deserve (here’s looking at you, Veruca Salt). And sometimes, they’re frustratingly under-punished (argh, Mr. and…
Get the Soap: 4 Characters With Dirty Mouths
Profanity in books is a topic people never tire of debating. Is it okay, is it useful, will it corrupt…
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Their Favorite Books
What is happiness? Is it love, success, the achievement of dreams, and spiritual fulfillment? Or is it a bowl of…
Literary Astrology: Gemini
Fun fact about Geminis: Their most erogenous zones are their hands and arms. How does this play into our literary…
If Famous Literary Characters Had Online Dating Profiles
It seems like all my friends are looking for love online these days. Whether they’re searching for the One or…
To Celebrate Top Secret Twenty-One, Here Are 6 Reasons We Love Stephanie Plum
Top Secret Twenty-One, the 21st book in Janet Evanovich’s blockbuster Stephanie Plum series, is out today, and I for one can’t wait…
7 Characters In Need of Origin Stories
The box-office success of Disney’s Maleficent proves two things: 1) There will always be a vehicle for Angelina Jolie’s cheekbones,…
The 8 Best Siblings in Fiction
Whether you love them or want to throw them out the window, there’s no denying siblings are a nonstop story…
7 Compelling Characters with Disabilities
Though fiction has always featured characters with physical disabilities—Tiny Tim, Captain Ahab, and Philip Carey among them—they are still wildly underrepresented on…
Literary Astrology: Taurus
Taurus: They are strong like bull. I know, because I am one. Born between April 20 and May 20, Tauruses…
Step Aside, Boys: The Heroine Has Taken Over
At a time when Americans still profess to be very divided on the subject of feminism, some of the most…
5 Characters You Wouldn’t Want to Meet In a Dark Alley
From A Clockwork Orange to Lolita, The Stranger to American Psycho, many of the most controversial, gripping novels of the…
What if These Literary Love Triangles Had Turned Out Differently?
Boy meets girl, girl meets second, equally attractive boy, all hell (or at least some mild confusion) breaks loose. The…