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Sense8 lovers, here are 3 novels to tease the mind

When exactly did Netflix become a trailblazer for new and inventive TV? It seems like only yesterday they were sending DVDs to your door for cheap, and now their high-quality shows and binge-model standard are changing the way we think about and consume television. Their newest offering is a dark…
Rachel Carter
June 10, 2015
Fiction

Was that gut-wrenching Outlander finale too much for you?

Outlander’s season finale aired on Saturday, and it was disturbing, to say the least. After leading up to a confrontation all season, Jamie is tortured and sexually assaulted at the hands of Black Jack Randall, and the show never once spares us from the excruciating details. It was difficult to…
Rachel Carter
June 3, 2015
Fiction

3 Mad Men fan theories we wish were in the finale

It’s always a little bittersweet when a show you watch has its series finale. On the one hand, you finally get to see exactly where the characters end up, and hopefully it’s more or less what you wished for. On the other, those final scenes also bring with them the…
Rachel Carter
May 18, 2015
Fiction

Book Review: The rise of the Subprimes

The hard-knocks imagery in the opening pages of The Subprimes (Harper; May 12, 2015) is riveting. Homeless people, tucked into ragged sleeping bags, are camped out under a “crumbling freeway, so dilapidated and overdue for resurfacing you could glimpse through the cracks the sooty undercarriages of cars passing overhead.” Above…
Carol Memmott
May 5, 2015
Fiction

Researching The Patriot Threat in Steve Berry’s America

Maybe the only person who’s better-traveled than Cotton Malone, the hero of Steve Berry’s best-selling series of international thrillers, is Steve Berry himself. The author, whose work for historic preservation has been recognized by everyone from the American Library Association to the Smithsonian Institution, has sent his main character to…
Michael Ruscoe
April 27, 2015
Fiction

Books for TV Addicts: Last stop, Harlan County

Just because FX’s Justified recently wrapped after six seasons, there’s no reason to pack your bags and leave Harlan County, Kentucky. When people like Raylan Givens, Boyd Crowder, and Ava Crowder—not to mention the show’s fantastic supporting cast of miscreants and gunslingers—come into your life, they’re here to stay. Justified,…
Jordan Foster
April 24, 2015
Fiction

Elizabeth Berg imagines the life of George Sand in The Dream Lover

It’s difficult not to look back on the past as a black-and-white photograph: staid, colorless, and more conservative than our own time. “Each generation thinks it invented sex: each generation is totally mistaken,” author Robert Heinlein once famously wrote—and of course, he’s right. It’s difficult to picture bygone eras getting…
Rachel Carter
April 9, 2015
Fiction

Susan Wiggs and The Beekeeper’s Ball

If you’re searching for an enchanting spring or summer read, The Beekeeper’s Ball is the perfect choice! Set amid the lush backdrop of Sonoma County, you will be swept away by the beauty of Bella Vista in Susan Wiggs’s sequel to The Apple Orchard, with its tranquil gardens, ripe apple…
BookTrib Guest Author
March 29, 2015
Fiction

Top 6 worst book covers ever?

We are told to never judge a book by its cover, but when the covers look like this… It’s hard for this Bookish Diva not to be a tad judge-y. While it is easy to chuckle when self-published books have less than fabulous covers, what are we to do when…
Mea Stewart
March 25, 2015