Classics

Classics and Comedy: Books That Mix Serious Themes with Surprising Humor

Sometimes a book that’s known for one thing — revealing the mores of 19th Century English country life, for example, or capturing the eternal struggle between good and evil — is so famous for that one thing that no one pays attention to the equally noteworthy humor it contains. The…

Diane ParrishOctober 21, 2024

Miscellany Potpourri - Featured Thrillers

Back From the Dead! Agatha Christie’s New Mystery “Dead Ringers”

Dame Agatha Christie sat in a lush, turquoise armchair, sipping a cup of tea with a mischievous glint in her eye. A helpful, local librarian at Cholsey Library — a soft spoken Ms. Gardner — helped arrange the Zoom call for the interview. “It was a bit of a startle…

Madison HillApril 1, 2022

Miscellany

Why The Classic Books Still Matter Today

We booklovers are book collectors, dedicated readers who revisit our own personal collections. Most of our bookcases are eclectic and reflect distinctive tastes and interests. Yet for many of us, among our precious books are those novels that are deemed “the classics.” Not every title that we own, of course,…

Susan Shapiro BarashSeptember 25, 2018

Fiction

Presenting: The Real Housewives of Classic Literature!

Everyone loves The Real Housewives! OK, to be fair, not everyone is aware of how magical the Real Housewives can be on occasion. While a lot of people find them irritating, where else are you going to find crazy moments where weird rich women debase themselves like insane animals in…

Katie HiresOctober 12, 2016

BooksToScreen Fiction

Free eBooks: Classic Science Fiction You May Have Missed

If you're an everyday reader, you've probably read some interesting science fiction along the line - but have you read some famous classics that end up on reader's lists every year? Because we love sci-fi, from the awesome movies we're all familiar with such as Blade Runner and The Matrix just to name two,…

Maggie MeyersNovember 14, 2017

Fiction

The Best Mark Twain eBooks for Under a Dollar!

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain From his adventure books featuring good ole' Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, to his own personal accounts found in a very personal memoir, Mark Twain has gone down in history for his classical twists…

Maggie MeyersNovember 21, 2017

Fiction

A Little Women Christmas Beautifully Illustrates the Season’s Good Will

I recently took a copy of A Little Women Christmas (Simon & Schuster, 2014) to read with my Reading Buddy, Heidi. Author Heather Vogel Frederick took the story of Mr. March’s surprise homecoming from Louisa Mae Alcott’s classic, Little Women, and adapted it for 4-7 year olds. Who better to…

Ann NordlandDecember 8, 2014

Fiction Listicles

Whose Story is This? Classic Tales Cleverly Retold

You’ve heard the wry pronouncement, “There are only two plots in the world: someone takes a journey, and a stranger comes to town.” And then someone inevitably replies “That’s the same story. It all depends upon the point of view.” If there are only two stories in the universe, and…

Hank Phillippi RyanJune 17, 2021

Classics and Comedy: Books That Mix Serious Themes with Surprising Humor

Back From the Dead! Agatha Christie’s New Mystery “Dead Ringers”

Why The Classic Books Still Matter Today

Presenting: The Real Housewives of Classic Literature!

Free eBooks: Classic Science Fiction You May Have Missed

The Best Mark Twain eBooks for Under a Dollar!

A Little Women Christmas Beautifully Illustrates the Season’s Good Will

Whose Story is This? Classic Tales Cleverly Retold

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