So the summer movie blockbuster season is here. This past weekend after some Memorial Day shopping, my daughter and I hit the movie theater to see Angels & Demons.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say I think the movie was better than the book. Don’t get me wrong, I liked [...]
Jodi Picoult came by my office on a Wednesday afternoon while she was in Atlanta for her book tour. And while I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing NY Times bestselling authors before, I’m definitely not as cool as I should be and I was nervous.
I mean, after all Jodi Picoult is not just any author [...]
Susan Rebecca White packed the house for the BOUND SOUTH launch party back in February. She did a talk and signing at the Margaret Mitchell House here in Atlanta, which is of course, where all the big name authors go when they are here in town. So now you’re thinking — big name?? — I [...]
Brooklyn Public Library and Better World Books host the Great American Book Drive on the Plaza at Central Library on Saturday, May 16th from 10AM-3PM.
An untold number of used books rest on shelves, under beds and stacked in offices across the country. The Great American Book Drive is a book-by-book, click-by-click campaign to turn these [...]
Before a recent trip to Savannah, Georgia, I was asked the same question each time I mentioned the city: “Have you read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil?” I wondered why so many people found this book to be synonymous with Savannah and decided I’d better check it out.
The author, John Berendt, explains [...]
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So I guess now I’m a veteran of the Green Festivals having now been to 3 of them. DC last November, Seattle in March and now Denver this past weekend.
This was the first year the festival was held in Denver and though the weather wasn’t great on Saturday it cleared up and the traffic picked [...]
If you’re a huge Jodi Picoult fan - you surely already know that MY SISTER’S KEEPER is about to be a feature film starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin and Alec Baldwin.
The story is about a young girl who sues her parents for emancipation because she no longer wants to be used as an organ and [...]
Why do you fall in love with one person rather than another? In her new book Dr. Helen Fisher identifies four biological personality styles generated by brain chemistry; then using her study of 28,000 people, she shows who is naturally drawn to whom.
Dr. Fisher is the chief scientific advisor for CHEMISTRY.COM and her personality type [...]
Happy Earth Day!
Are you still wondering what you can do to celebrate Earth Day?
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