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By Liz Calvario‍ This video is unavailable because we were unable to load a message from our sponsors. If you are using ad-blocking software, please disable it and reload the page. Embed Code Now playing Warning: If you have not watched Thursdays season 3 premiere of Legacies do not proceed. Spoilers ahead! Its going to be a year of personal growth for many students at Salvatore School. With the aftermath of Dark Josie still loom...

David is a 12-year-old boy who’s just lost his mother. When his father remarries and his stepmother has a son, David retreats into his books and fairy tales, and is soon drawn into a dangerous world filled with more than just his own imaginings. Full of stories that blend in unusual ways or feature their own particular twists—including a rare gender-swapped version of Beauty and the Beast, and a somewhat vampiric Sleepy Beauty—Connolly crafts a rather psychological exploration of grief an...

Welp. [Long whistle.] We just endured one helluva year, friends. We got by with a little help from our books.  Stories. Words. Escape into our own imagination, far from the grotesque burning landscape that was 2020.  And it shows in the numbers of this years Century Club. Eight years ago, I first challenged SouthCoast BookLovers to read 100 books in a year to make my BookLovers Century Club. Reading 25-49 books would qualify you for the Quarter-Century Club, and 50-99 books, the Half-Century ...

The books that brought writers like Roddy Doyle and Tana French comfort in 2020 Irish and Ireland-based writers, including Roddy Doyle, Sinéad Gleeson and Tana French, tell us about the books that soothed them this year. By Aoife Barry Wednesday 30 Dec 2020, 6:30 PM Dec 30th 2020, 6:30 PM 14,479 Views 2 Comments Image: Shutterstock/simona pi...

Kate Flora: I’m looking forward to given some very young people a copy of  The Library Lion , since it is a charming book and libraries are my favorite places. I’ve snagged a copy of The Best American Science and Nature Writing for my son. I’m hoping to get a copy of  The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook. Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson: Since I haven’t done a bit of Christmas shopping this year, not that I’m all that fond of it anyway, assorted relatives are getting copies of...

Print As many readers of modern novels know, actress Reese Witherspoon has a book club with an impressive list of picks: “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean, “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens, “Such a Fun Age” by Kiley Reid and “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng. And the latest author to join Reese’s Book Club is San Diego’s Laura Taylor Namey. Her novel “A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow” was Reese’s Book Club’s November YA selection, thanks, ...

Stormy Fairy Tales By Matilda Woods Translated by Laura Watkinson Many of us discover as children that books can be like secret doorways. They might be at the back of a wardrobe or in the side of a giant tree, but wherever the doors lead, once we step through, time will cease to matter and our everyday worries will disappear. Things might get dicey, as there are bound to be stormy nights, impenetrable forests, monsters and witches, but in the end, and this is most important, everything will be ...