In Olivia Gatwood’s debut novel, as in life, self-perception is rarely reliable. That uneasy boundary between the real and the perceived is exactly what piques protagonist Mitty’s fascination when she encounters her new neighbors, Lena and Sebastian, outside their glittering glass-walled home on the Santa Cruz waterfront. At the beginning of Whoever You Are, Honey,
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Happy Friday, book lovers. A particularly good line-up for you today on Book Riot: I still can’t resist a good bookshop-based novel. Traveling to distant lands, magical or otherwise, is all well and good. But for me, nothing beats the magic that can be found in a brick-and-mortar shop just bursting with books. They’ve since
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We all made some choices during the depths of 2020. Some decided that baking sourdough bread was worth obsessing over. Some made Zoom dates with people they hadn’t talked to in decades. Some watched The Office over and over again. I got into credit cards. Not using credit cards to buy stuff, at least no
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It would be an understatement to say that Hey Dudes are controversial. For every Reddit thread that’s filled with people complaining about the shoes, there’s a number of die-hard fans defending the brand. But, even if they’re polarizing, it’s nonetheless true that the ultra-comfortable shoes have slowly but surely been taking over the world since
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Play video content YouTube / Piers Morgan Uncensored Armie Hammer is hitting back at those cannibalism allegations, denying he’s ever eaten human flesh … though, he has copped to some other kinks. The actor addressed the controversial misconduct claims that derailed his career, as he appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” Friday for a tell-all interview.
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. On the Life-Changing Joy of Re-Reading Books I hardly ever re-read books. It’s not that I am against it of course. It is only that there are so many books that I have not yet
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A brand new trailer for the upcoming HBO Dune series has landed. Dune: Prophecy will serve as a prequel to 2021’s Dune and 2024’s Dune: Part Two. It will premiere this coming November. “From the expansive universe of Dune, created by acclaimed author Frank Herbert, and 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, Dune: Prophecy
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Another day of book stuff today on Book Riot: Audiobooks are a fantastic medium for the nonfiction genre. There are so many topics that benefit from the conversational nature, speaking the quiet bits out loud, and allowing our minds the time to roll the thoughts around. It harkens back to the days of open forums
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