Rachel Carter

ICYMI! Our Top Picks from the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards

It’s once again time for the annual Goodreads Choice Awards, where thousands of readers choose their favorite books of the year. The competition is stiff this go around, with three stages of voting and tons of awesome reads to choose from. Goodreads has always been about the readers, bringing together…

Rachel CarterMay 22, 2017

BooksToScreen Fiction

Hemingway to Capote: Watching Our Favorite Writers Come to Life On-Screen

Writers have a long history of showing up as characters in films. Sometimes those writers are real people interacting with history (like Hemingway!), and sometimes they’re made up characters, showing us exactly how Hollywood imagines the concept of the writer. Regardless, these writers usually have certain traits in common: they’re…

Rachel CarterMay 22, 2017

Young Adult

Everything, Everything Adaptation Puts Spotlight on Young Adult Novels

With blockbuster series like Twilight or The Hunger Games on bookshelves, it’s easy to assume that most young adult novels need a sexy vampire or a dystopian future in order to succeed. Sure, we’re not ever going to turn down a sexy vampire—we’re not crazy, after all. But there’s also…

Rachel CarterMay 18, 2017

Romance

May’s Author Crush: Maya Banks Can Write Every Kind of Romance

If you’re a romance reader, then you know that “romance” is actually a huge category of books that includes all different types of genres. From historical to thrillers to westerns to erotic contemporary novels, romance readers have a wide variety of settings and tropes to choose from. And we all…

Rachel CarterMay 17, 2017

Fiction

Anne with an E is on Netflix and our Younger Selves are Rejoicing!

Childhood lives! The Anne of Green Gables reboot, Anne with an E, is officially on Netflix and I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited about anything in my entire life. The show, called Anne With an E, premiered on May 12, and follows the first Anne Shirley book, written…

Rachel CarterMay 15, 2017

Fiction

Book Love for Moms on Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is this Sunday, which means it’s time to celebrate the mothers in your life. Maybe you’re a mother yourself, or maybe you have a mother or a mother-type figure you appreciate. Regardless, why not make this Mother’s Day a literary one? Celebrate in a way that everyone is…

Rachel CarterMay 12, 2017

Fiction

The Top 10 May Books We Need to Read Now!

April showers have brought May flowers! It’s finally time for tulips and lilacs and warm afternoons spent curled up on a sunny porch. All the better if you have a great new book to read while you soak up that springtime sun. Thankfully, there are tons of awesome new May…

Rachel CarterMay 11, 2017

Book Club Network Miscellany

These 5 Online Book Clubs are Calling Your Name!

At this point in my life, I’m not sure where I would be without a book club. Both social and fun, book clubs are the perfect way to take my favorite thing to do and add friends to it. Oh, and wine. (Lots of wine!) But we do read the…

Rachel CarterMay 6, 2017

Fiction

Bringing Girlboss and Female Entrepreneurs to Netflix

Let’s hear it for the girls! The Netflix show Girlboss came out April 21 and we finally binged the first season and loved it. Full of vintage clothes, salty language and lots of badass antics; it has a punk rock vibe that’s instantly addictive. Check out the trailer and just…

Rachel CarterMay 5, 2017

Fiction

Betty and Jughead are the Heart of The CW’s Riverdale

As soon as I saw promos for The CW’s new show, Riverdale, I was intrigued. It looked mysterious and romantic, and I knew this was a teen show I didn’t want to miss. When I actually sat down to watch it, I was hooked from the very first scene. The…

Rachel CarterMay 5, 2017

Young Adult

Lighten Your Life This Spring with These 6 Must-Reads

The spring weather is here! This winter seemed like it would never end, but now the birds are chirping, the trees are budding, and purple and blue flowers are just starting to poke their way out of the ground. It’s the time of year where all you want to do…

Rachel CarterMay 3, 2017

Fiction

Starz’s American Gods Must Have These Five Neil Gaiman Elements

American Gods premieres on Starz on April 30, and we couldn’t be more excited. Based on a novel by Neil Gaiman, one of our favorite authors, American Gods became an almost instant classic when it was released in 2001. Now, 16 years later, we’re finally seeing a version hit the…

Rachel CarterApril 27, 2017

Miscellany

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day Today (and Always)!

I’ve always loved spending time in bookstores. There’s just something magical about wiling away the hours with rows of books towering above you, the to-buy stack in your arms growing heavier and heavier. When I find a new local bookstore to love it feels like Christmas and my birthday all…

Rachel CarterApril 26, 2017

Fiction

Norwegian Show Skam is Inspiring Us to Read More LGBTQ-Themed Books

A few months ago on Tumblr, I started to notice that everyone kept posting about the same show: Skam. And when I say “posting about,” what I really mean is “intensely obsessing over to extreme degrees.” A Norwegian teen show, Skam, is part web series, part TV show, with events during…

Rachel CarterApril 24, 2017

Fiction

April’s Author Crush: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter Series is Epically Intricate

Sherrilyn Kenyon The only thing I don’t like about books is that they’re always over too soon. Sometimes I just want to live in a world, breathing in the setting and staying with a couple long after the final page. This is why I was so excited to discover Sherrilyn Kenyon and…

Rachel CarterApril 19, 2017

Romance

We’re Spending Our Sleepless Nights Reading These 10 Books

Anyone obsessed with books knows that the struggle is real: sometimes you’re just not going to get any sleep. For some reason, it always seems like a good idea to start a new novel right before bedtime. Four hours – and plenty of blurry eyes later – and you still…

Rachel CarterApril 18, 2017

Rachel Carter

ICYMI! Our Top Picks from the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards

Hemingway to Capote: Watching Our Favorite Writers Come to Life On-Screen

Everything, Everything Adaptation Puts Spotlight on Young Adult Novels

May’s Author Crush: Maya Banks Can Write Every Kind of Romance

Anne with an E is on Netflix and our Younger Selves are Rejoicing!

Book Love for Moms on Mother’s Day

The Top 10 May Books We Need to Read Now!

These 5 Online Book Clubs are Calling Your Name!

Bringing Girlboss and Female Entrepreneurs to Netflix

Betty and Jughead are the Heart of The CW’s Riverdale

Lighten Your Life This Spring with These 6 Must-Reads

Starz’s American Gods Must Have These Five Neil Gaiman Elements

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day Today (and Always)!

Norwegian Show Skam is Inspiring Us to Read More LGBTQ-Themed Books

April’s Author Crush: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter Series is Epically Intricate

We’re Spending Our Sleepless Nights Reading These 10 Books

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