10 New Book Releases in January 2023 to Look Forward To: We’d like to begin this blog by wishing our readers more books and reading time in this brand-new year. This year, like every year, we promise to go skinny dipping in the literary works of our favorite authors and pile up unread books on…
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman “This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots.” What happens when an unsuccessful bank robber unsuccessfully runs away from the bank and accidentally enters an apartment viewing? A wonky hostage situation, of course. From the author of the splashing hit A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman,…
10 Most Interesting Book-to-Screen Movie Adaptations from 2022: The year 2022 saw a plethora of books being made into films, from the more popular adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile (1937) and Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818) to the lesser-known short story by Joe Hill called The Black Phone. These adaptations have once again…
About the author: Erin Morgenstern is a Theatre major, who found herself gravitating toward the mystic arts while studying studio art. She combined her love for art and all things mystical by painting tarot card decks. Quite green in the literary field, she tried her hand at writing novels around supernatural subjects. Doubleday, her debut…
‘Steal Like An Artist’ by Austin Kleon describes ways of stimulating your imagination and getting your creative juices flowing when working in a creative field. If you are someone who considers yourself to be an artist, this is the book for you. If you think you’re a wannabe artist of any kind [art, craft, writing,…
Who is Franz Kafka? Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, part of the then-Austro-Hungarian Empire and the current capital of the Czech Republic. He lived a short life, studying law and working a desk job, spending most of his free time writing the iconoclastic, surreal, and absurd narratives which he would become known…