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Nowadays, the word “influencer” gets thrown around a lot in reference to people on social media platforms who exert influence over their followers to use certain products. The BookTok portion

If you have school-aged children or grandchildren, summer vacation is upon you and them. What a glorious time to do some reading with them and to go on a vacation

Do you struggle to choose a book to read or feel overwhelmed at the sheer number of options and want help narrowing down the choices? If so, I’d like to

“Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books” by Azar Nafisi was published 20 years ago and deals with Iran in the 1980s and 1990s, but it’s a book that

As a reader, I prefer standalone novels; however, I do enjoy a good series, especially when it’s of the easy-going variety. By “easy-going,” I mean that I like a series

Alice Munro is a 91-year-old Canadian author. In her long writing career, she has only written short stories, but she has written many of them – according to various online

I’m now beginning my 14th year of writing this column. Thank you to all the readers who have made that possible.

Satire is a literary tool in which a writer ridicules an institution or society as a whole or a type of person or humanity as a whole through irony, sarcasm,

Each January, I begin the new year with reading resolutions, the books I’m hoping to read in the coming year. Unfortunately, I never complete the list, but I do try.

Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 at the age of 88. To date, she is still the oldest recipient of this prize, and she is one