Year: 2019
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What An NPR Correspondent Learned By Working As A Taxi Driver In Shanghai (NPR)
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Frank Langfitt about his new book, Shanghai Free Taxi. It's born out of a project he started to meet ordinary Chinese citizens as a correspondent for NPR.
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Plan a date, and we’ll tell you which Folk of the Air character you should ask out
The world in Folk of the Air is glittering and dangerous and all the characters despicable in some way or another. But dang it if I don’t want to date some of them anyway! What can I say, the fae are so charming! But who should I ask out? Well, I made a quiz to…
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Read It Before You See It: TRINKETS by Kiwi Smith
On Friday, the first season of the Netflix Original Series Trinkets will air! Like most great entertainment, it’s based off a book with the same title…by the same screenwriter/author, Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith! Kiwi’s credits include Legally Blonde, Ella Enchanted, 10 Things I Hate About You, The House Bunny, She’s the Man,…you get it—she brings it…
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Kim Jong Un’s Undercover Adolescent Years in Switzerland (Politico)
Anna Fifield is Beijing bureau chief at the Washington Post. This is adapted from her recent book, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un.
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Go Off-the-Beaten-Path in Croatia & Slovenia: 10-Day Itinerary
Travel to less-touristed parts of Croatia and Slovenia and you’ll be rewarded with charming villages, winery hotels, cozy restaurants, and quirky museums. Want to see the talked-about sights too? Just add a couple of days to peruse the capitals, Ljubljana and Zagreb, or combine it with a trip to the coast, since the tour has…
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Being blackmailed sucks, but we love reading about it
There are few moves from the villain playbook quite as well-employed as blackmail. Leveraging private information to force someone to do things they would otherwise not do definitely qualifies as despicable. Of course, blackmail IRL is an absolute no-go, morally abhorrent and potentially seriously illegal to boot. However, in the wonderful world of YA, a…
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‘The Great Successor’ Aims To Fill In Blanks On The Life Of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un (NPR)
What emerges is a portrait of Kim fully in charge and consciously channeling his grandfather, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, to bolster his legitimacy. Contrary to prevailing stereotypes, in this story Kim is anything but a madman.
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The Bold Type Characters as Book Characters
If you’re not watching The Bold Type on Freeform, then you’re missing out on some seriously A+ content. It follows Jane, Kat, and Sutton, who all work at Scarlet, a global women’s magazine, and their nuanced and intersectional lives. Of course, as someone who has books on their mind 24/7, I couldn’t help but to…
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Five Single Dads We Love at Forever Romance
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All My Thoughts on The Diviners by Libba Bray
As some of you may know, the fourth book in Libba Bray’s The Diviners series, The King of Crows, is coming in February. What most of you may not know is that I have never read The Diviners. So, I have decided to take this glorious opportunity to rectify this obvious lapse in my reading…
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How Kim Jong Un has defied expectations (MSNBC video)
Author Anna Fifield has visited North Korea a dozen times, and she joins Morning Joe to discuss the rise of Kim Jong Un in her new book 'The Great Successor.'
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How to Spend 10 Days in Barcelona and Madrid
Cosmopolitan, glamorous, and architecturally stunning, Barcelona is bestowed with a laid-back ambiance, thanks to its location on the Mediterranean. Madrid, meanwhile, as the seat of Spain’s government, is seen by some as more serious—but wander around, and you will be surprised at what you find. Although there is a rivalry between the two cities, the…
