Enjoy this gateway collection, broken into three parts: lip balms, makeup, and perfumes. You’ll find bookish inspiration ranging from fantasy and beloved classics to mythology and more. This is a sampling from all different independent businesses and companies, and rest assured, there are more where this came from. Be sure to check out what else seller each has to offer. Lip Balms The Raven Boys Lip Balm: Take care of those chapped lips with a Gansey-themed lip balm by Bookish Balms for only $4....

I thought about what direction I wanted to take this piece in and I decided that I would simply review and recommend great reads that discuss great movies. Simple enough, right? And I just now realized that I typed the word “movies” six times already in less than two paragraphs (including the title and when I made a point about typing the word “movies” a lot). All that aside, in no particular order, here are some recommended reads that talk about movies:...

Sandra Magsamen has touched millions of people, one heart at a time. Her products have been warmly embraced for over 25 years. As an artist, art therapist, mom, and award-winning author, Sandra uses her own creativity and spirit to design gifts, books, and collections that help people express themselves and connect with one other. Sandra reminds and teaches us to explore and experience each day with more heart, meaning, purpose, and joy....

Read on for the full story: “Long overdue books returned to Massachusetts library“ And find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books.

2nd – 4th Grades Instead of reading 39,483,209 Sweet Valley Twins books, in which everything generally turns out sunny in the end, and which always made me feel like crap because my life was pretty stormy—I would hand my bespectacled little self the complete Series of Unfortunate Events. Things frequently suck for the Baudelaire children, and it would’ve been good for me to see how they got themselves out of catastrophes....

But some novels turn this linear story progression on its head. Some deliver those spoilers to you on a platter by serving it up in the first few pages. These are the novels that begin at the end: that lay out the cards early and reveal all the sordid or dramatic details of how the story ends. Sometimes they’ll go in full reverse chronological order, so you’re going back in time to rewind all the way to the beginning....

I own over 500 print books and ARCs. I also own over 1,000 kindle books and eARCs. All unread. Read that again: ALL. UNREAD. Over the course of time, I have weeded the print and Kindle books I’ve decided I would definitely not be interested in reading anymore, but that still leaves a constant stream of books coming into the house and landing onto one of my digital reading devices of choice....

1. My Boyfriend Is a Bear by Pamela Ribon and Cat Farris This lighthearted, brightly colored story details the relationship between twenty-something Angeleno slacker Nora and her partner, a 500-pound American black bear who rocks an Arcade Fire shirt. A standard long-distance relationship is nothing compared to waiting for your boyfriend to finish hibernating each year… 2. Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs This is a quietly touching tribute to Briggs’s parents....

No, I do not tend to read half a dozen books on vacation. Ideally, I’m too busy vacationing! Yet despite these truths, I still have the urge to bring half a dozen books. And honestly, it can be hard to narrow it down to sixish. How do I know what mood I’ll be in? What if I don’t like the books I bring? What if a stranger walks up to me while I’m reading on the street and snatches a book right out of my hand?...

Who doesn’t love a story of dashing, derring-do and some swashbuckling in the bargain? Ahoy are stories of ships and the sea and magic and mermaids. Airships and kissing — the kiss, IYKYK — and love and loss and everything in between. Pirates continue to capture the imagination because they are agents of anti-capitalist, anarchic chaos. They refuse to follow the rules of the land, instead taking what they can and giving nothing back....

Books are introduced and removed from school curricula on a regular basis. However, certain texts are perennial in American classrooms, among them The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; The Cay, and To Kill A Mockingbird. As the NCAC states, there are problematic and challenging themes in many (if not all) books considered “classic texts.” Curricula have been developed to put these themes into context and to provide students with more perspective and compassion, with the goal of teaching the lessons of the past so that our present and future can be more equitable....

Unpack new reads and big savings during our Back to School Sale. Save 25-50% on thousands of ebooks and audiobooks – Picture Books/Read-Alongs, YA/Teen Reads, Diverse Reads, Graphic Novels and much more! This year it’s September 18-24 and the theme is Books Unite Us. However you choose to celebrate, I hope that you make sure to take action this month in supporting your local or school library. Whether that’s educating yourself on the rights students have to access books or figuring out how to contact your legislators about book bans....

Whether it’s reporting on an important event or writing a fictional story that addresses real-life situations, the human element is super important. Sometimes the two worlds do collide, and journalists (like the award-winners reporters below) write books. Anderson Cooper A journalist with decades of reporting experience, including reporting from war zones, Anderson Cooper currently anchors his own show on CNN: Anderson Cooper 360. He has moderated several primary debates and a presidential debate....

If you, like me, are not eagerly diving into that 800 page novel sitting on your bedside table, these comforting books are for you. These books have gotten me through personal crisis before, and they’re getting me through this one. They are not completely without danger or death of any kind, but they make me laugh out loud, transport and distract me, and remind me that kindness hope, and humor abound among humans....

Waffles versus pancakes: A Pointless debate First, let me say that I wholeheartedly believe that waffles are a superior product to pancakes. Pancakes are just like SPLAT and they kind of sit there, waiting to be eaten. Waffles are crispy and come with a bunch of holes for you to fill with butter and syrup. Plus, you can waffle so many things! I went through a phase where I was just waffling everything in sight....

Her latest volume, The Sun And Her Flowers, shows again how Kaur plants words as if they are seeds ready to grow inside of us. I was pretty smitten by the paperback cover when it came out, but the hardback edition is of rare beauty. Which one do you prefer? The paperback edition: The hardcover edition: Help us decide by voting below!

We watch a lot of animated films in this house. Partially it’s because of having kids, I guess, but mostly it’s because I have an obsession with animation that stretches back to long before either of the kids turned up. I know exactly when it started, in fact. On some terrible VHS tape, stretched out and slipping, I watched a clip of “behind the scenes” footage for The Lion King....