You feel that? It’s the pulse of the weekend, sooo close to being here! you’ve all been working hard, and you deserve a little treat. Ours for you? Our timely requiem for a well-worn week – a collection of songs, each corresponding to one of our top stories in some way. Some very directly, others just for fun. We hope you enjoy the songs, and check out what made us think of them in the space below. Want to go even further in our musical Wayback Machine? Check out our previous three playlists here, here, and here. What’s on …
For whatever reason, descriptions of the Olympic Games – including this one – feature the same splattering of numbers shooting across your screens: 16 days. 28 sports (subdivided into 41 separate ‘disciplines’). 306 events. While the games officially started yesterday, with the first round of women’s soccer matches initiating what’s actually called Day -2, we still have the official ceremony to look forward to tomorrow. In honor, we’ve compiled seven books that contain heroic and unusual tales from around the Olympic pantheon, each corresponding to some of the most anticipated events in the games. Basketball – The Mozart of Basketball: …
James Patterson’s novella imprint BookShots, literature’s closest relative to a McDonald’s dollar-menu hamburger, has sold more than one million books since its establishment on June 7th. For those who resisted knowing about it for as long as they could, BookShots is a series of $5 titles that are 150 pages or fewer, written by famous writers such as James Patterson, James Patterson, and James Patterson. Patterson promised that the line would revolutionize books and how they were read, arguing that modern readers are too distracted to invest in a 300 to 400 page book. While that type of criticism often comes …
A Game of Thrones has turned 20 this month. The book is the first chapter – erm, shall we say, 72 chapters – of A Song of Ice and Fire’s epic pitting of values vs. self-interest, masquerading as medival animalism. Without it, we’d never have the HBO series it inspired- what’s it called? Swelling String Music Presents The Nudity Swordfight of Death Hour? Yeah, that sounds right. George R.R. Martin began writing the first book in modest in 1991. Although he had already established himself as a hard-geared fantasy novelist, the failure of his 1984 novel The Armaggedon Rag had pushed him into television, writing for Max Headroom and the Twilight …
Happy friday, reading fiends! It’s that time of the week again – the end part, the sweetest slice of the cake. But before you put on your raincoat and march out into whatever weather’s heading your way, ask yourself…are you caught up on this week’s book news? Of course you are! But if you’re not in a position to read through all our articles once more, we’ve made yet another mix of our favorite songs, each one corresponding to an article. Prepare yourself for a double-shot of Bond, Atwood and sad songs. Enjoy, and see you next week! The musical …
