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Superhero movies reach Olympian heights with Hercules

In this new era of superhero movies, has telling one champion from another become a Herculean task? If so, here are a few tips to help you remember the name of the latest hero to smash his way onto the big screen: he’s big, he’s brawny, he’s got a bad…

Michael RuscoeJuly 25, 2014

Fiction

Orphan Black books that will take the edge off waiting for Season 3

Calling all #CloneClub members! How are you holding up since the Season 2 finale of Orphan Black? I bet you’re still jamming to the catchy tune from that epic clone dance scene. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably checked yourself into Clonehab and are shaking life a leaf desperately…

McKenzie MorrellJuly 19, 2014

Fiction

Brian McGreevy shares an excerpt from Hemlock Grove

''It takes a rare stroke of genius to reconfigure the gothic novel within the postindustrial barrens of steel country and another entirely to upstage this conceit with a mythic and ambitious story of adolescence and alienation. Like a collaboration between Edgar Allan Poe and J. D. Salinger, this is a…

BookTribJuly 9, 2014

BooksToScreen Fiction

Your cheat sheet for Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove

For many readers, opening a Debbie Macomber book is like coming home. Her humor and gift for storytelling echo through her books. And that is exactly why fans everywhere are scrambling to watch Cedar Cove on the Hallmark Channel. With more than 170 million copies of her books in print…

Ann NordlandJuly 6, 2014

Fiction

Hemlock Grove: Netflix’s gothic horrorfest returns for a second season

While it might not get the accolades of House of Cards or the attention of Orange is the New Black, Netflix features another original series, one that takes a werewolf-sized bite out of its viewers’ appetite for horror. Call it a macabre mix of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and An…

Michael RuscoeJuly 4, 2014

Fiction

Holy Mother of Dragons — scaly beasts are hot, hot, hot!

Lately it seems like dragons are everywhere. Whether you’re turning on the television, picking up a book, or heading to the movies, you’re almost guaranteed to see a fire-breathing, scale-wearing, high-flying creature. Not that we’re complaining. Dragons are a staple of the world of fantasy, way more badass than unicorns…

Rachel CarterJune 26, 2014

Fiction

Critically acclaimed, award-winning YA books for Pride Month

One of the (many!) great things about Pride Month falling in June is getting out of school, kicking back and enjoying a book at the beach, pool or in a lazy hammock strung between trees. An additional pleasure is finding literature that you can relate to, which was once quite…

Jane EisnerJune 19, 2014

Fiction

Premiere nears for epic tale: It’s time for the Outlander cheat sheet

My name is Rachel Carter, and I am an Outlander junky. I read the first book in high school, and after that I couldn’t get enough – it only took me one summer to make it through Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, and The Fiery Cross. And this…

Rachel CarterJune 13, 2014

Fiction

Lessons from 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon, junk food enabler

We all know her. She shotguns slices of pizza with an unmatched fearlessness. She isn’t afraid to ask the cashier what time the old doughnuts get thrown away. She uses her oven for one thing: warming up her jeans. She is driven by her love of sugar, fat, and efficiency.…

Corey FawcettJune 10, 2014

Fiction

Jonesin’ for a Fix: Books for TV Addicts — Bates Motel edition

Always mind your mother. Sometimes this old adage fades as we get older and rebel but not for our geeky, albeit murderous, anti-hero, Norman Bates. He sticks close to his mother, the equally murderous Norma. In Bates Motel’s first season, we saw the closer-than-they-should-be mother and son duo dispose of…

BookTrib Nerd SquadJune 7, 2014

Fiction

Video: Missed It? Interview with Steve Berry, Author of The Lincoln Myth

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE LINCOLN MYTH Steve Berry returns with his latest thriller, a Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution, a mystery about Abraham Lincoln, and a political issue that’s as explosive as it is timely—not only in Malone’s world, but in ours. September 1861: All…

BookTribJune 6, 2014

BooksToScreen Fiction

The Fault in Our Stars cheat sheet (no spoilers!)

The first time I read The Fault in Our Stars I cried for three days. I’m not kidding. Three. Days. My face was puffy, I gave myself an eye infection – it wasn’t pretty. But John Green, the author, King of Vlogs, and all around Internet-sensation, created such well-rounded characters…

Rachel CarterJune 5, 2014

Fiction

Patti Callahan Henry shares the book that changed her life

Sometimes a book will enter my life at the exact moment that I need it, and I know when this happens because I see a circumstance differently or my heart is changed by the story. Yet other times a book settles inside me and works its magic slowly, so it…

BookTribMay 29, 2014

Fiction

Four must-read, critically acclaimed graphic novels

I spent most of my early reading life diving into thick volumes of prose, devouring everything from Little Women to Anna Karenina. Apart from some early obsessions with Archie comics and Mad Magazine (the latter stolen from my brother's room, to be returned before he could notice), I thought of…

Tahneer OksmanMay 22, 2014

Fiction

Leapin’ Lizards! Eleven fun facts about Godzilla, the Pride of Tokyo

He may be the biggest star in Hollywood. Literally. This week, Godzilla, everyone’s favorite city-stomping, radioactive monster smashes his way back into theaters, breathing atomic breath back into a classic movie franchise, and most likely leaving a pile of demolished box-office records in his wake. The new movie, which stars…

Michael RuscoeMay 15, 2014

Fiction

Fiction’s five most misunderstood mothers

So maybe there was that incident with the apple. Or the embarrassment at the dance at Netherfield. And trying to rip Beowulf from stem to stern was probably a bit extreme. But really, aren’t some of fiction’s mothers just misunderstood? There are plenty of good mother role models: Marmee in…

Ann NordlandMay 10, 2014

Superhero movies reach Olympian heights with Hercules

Orphan Black books that will take the edge off waiting for Season 3

Brian McGreevy shares an excerpt from Hemlock Grove

Your cheat sheet for Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove

Hemlock Grove: Netflix’s gothic horrorfest returns for a second season

Holy Mother of Dragons — scaly beasts are hot, hot, hot!

Critically acclaimed, award-winning YA books for Pride Month

Premiere nears for epic tale: It’s time for the Outlander cheat sheet

Lessons from 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon, junk food enabler

Jonesin’ for a Fix: Books for TV Addicts — Bates Motel edition

Video: Missed It? Interview with Steve Berry, Author of The Lincoln Myth

The Fault in Our Stars cheat sheet (no spoilers!)

Patti Callahan Henry shares the book that changed her life

Four must-read, critically acclaimed graphic novels

Leapin’ Lizards! Eleven fun facts about Godzilla, the Pride of Tokyo

Fiction’s five most misunderstood mothers

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