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The Books on Bridget Jones’s Imaginary Bookshelf

It’s hard to fully encapsulate the amazingness that is Bridget Jones’s Diary. Helen Fielding’s book is fantastic, and the movie is even better. (Seriously, come at me). Between the most relatable female heroine ever, the objectively least-crazy-most-sensible-while-still-being-attractive leading man, and quite possibly the greatest, least graceful fight scene in movie…
Katie Hires
September 16, 2016
Fiction

Sarah Morgan on Her New Novel and the Bonds of Sisterhood

USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan's upcoming novel How To Keep a Secret (HQN Books) focuses on three generations of women, who are all facing different crises: Nancy knows that she hasn't been the best mother to her two daughters, Lauren and Jenna, but she can't bring herself to tell them why;…
Sarah Morgan
July 9, 2018
Fiction

Journey into some favorite books with a “bibliomemoir”

I retain only the vaguest impressions of George Eliot’s Middlemarch. I read it as a 19-year-old study abroad student in England, too busy exploring a new country and having my first romance to fully appreciate an 800-page treasure of literature. I certainly missed out on the life-changing experience with Eliot…
Rebecca Foster
February 21, 2014
Fiction

Covering Jane Austen, one cover at a time

Jane Austen has never been as popular as she is now. Since the publication of Sense and Sensibility over 200 years ago, her novels have been in almost continuous print. There are stage and film adaptions of her novels, modern retellings from books to Web series, and a book industry…
Ann Nordland
December 14, 2014
Fiction

The Basic Bitch Exists in Books and We Have Five Favorites

Fall is the season of basic bitches: pumpkin spice everything, infinity scarves, knee-high boots and scented candles that smell like “Autumn Wreath.” A basic bitch devours these things, or at least Instagrams herself with them on the regular: #lovingfall #pumpkins #uggsarewarm. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, let me educate…
Rachel Carter
October 13, 2015
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Great American Listening: Our Country’s Top Picks

PBS has just concluded a national survey and an eight-part series that explored and celebrated the power of reading, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels: THE GREAT AMERICAN READ. The final results just released put TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD definitively on top, with four finalists: the Outlander series, the Harry Potter series, PRIDE…
Robin Whitten
November 9, 2018
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10 Editors’ Picks From December’s Best Audiobooks

Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors select the best new audiobooks — from memoirs to satire, historical fiction to mystery and cultural commentary. These listening recommendations offer plenty of variety, inspiration and escape. Queue up these audiobooks. This story appears through BookTrib’s partnership with AudioFile and contains material originating from…
AudioFile
December 28, 2020