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Margaret Mitchell

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Eight Voices of the Civil War

Civil War-era novels never seem to fall out of favor. The American public is fascinated by stories from that time period, the details of bloody battles and cruelties of slavery drawing people’s attention. But why? Is it just because we’re intrigued by the violent and grotesque? Does it make us…
BookTrib
February 17, 2023
Miscellany

The 115 Best Books of All Time According to Reedsy

The folks over at Reedsy Discovery have compiled this incredible list and given us permission to share it with our readers. Check out their website to discover yet more books for your TBR list! —∞— The written word is a pillar of human civilization — it signals complex thinking, it’s…
Reedsy Discovery
June 12, 2020
Miscellany

What kind of flower are you? Six literary heroines and their floral alter egos

A red rose means love. A daisy, innocence. A violet signifies faithfulness. Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s bestselling novel The Language of Flowers (Ballantine, 2011) sparked renewed interest in Victorian “floriography,” or flower symbolism. Recipients used floral dictionaries to decode the meanings of complicated “talking bouquets” and made floral arrangements to communicate feelings…
Kim Kankiewicz
May 10, 2014
Fiction

All the Feels: The First Book That Made You Cry

Whether or not you're an easy crier, there's usually one book that manages to hit you straight in the feels. For some of us at Early Bird Books, The Fault in Our Stars was the first to bring on serious waterworks (we'll never read John Green on the subway again).…
Early Bird Books
September 26, 2017
Fiction

Five authors whose fame rests on a single great novel

“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.” And so begins Harper Lee’s seminal 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, where we’re introduced to young Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, her brother and protector, Jem, and their father, the wise attorney and champion…
Jordan Foster
April 30, 2014