You might know the Bible is the world’s best seller, but did you know Harry Potter is longer than the Bible?
Category Archives: Books
Lord of the (Toilet) Rolls and other books to read during your quarantine
Before you enter what will feel like One Hundred Years of Quarantine, here are some books to take with you.
18 Walls by Teo Xue Shen: a review
18 Walls is an ambitious novel with too much going on in too little time. But it’s still worth a read. Here’s why.
Yes, we know, many classics had racist stereotypes. That’s not a reason to stop reading them
Dr. Seuss is the latest author under fire for racist caricatures in his works. But we shouldn’t censor them just because of that.
5 movies that were better than the book they were based on
Many bookworms like to mock film adaptations of their favourite books because they didn’t live up to the source material. Here are five that not only meet the standard, but are even better than the original thing.
6 more accurate titles for children’s books
Did you know that Bram Stoker’s Dracula had the working title “The Dead Un-dead”? Isn’t that so much clearer?
How I sold my homework on the Internet
It may sound bad, (and it did to my teachers), but apparently you can sell your homework on the Internet, and make good money off it. I did.
Why Stephen King’s The Body makes a great grad gift
Dr. Seuss’s final book is a classic book about graduating and a classic gift for grads. But are there other books that would work too?
Why [Insert Book] should not be made into a movie
Many books are turned into movies. Some are great. Some are… never mind. But there are some books people should not even try to make into films. Here’s why.
Harry Potter vs SpongeBob: the great gulf between children’s books and shows
Over the years, there has been a growing disparity in profundity between children’s books and children’s shows. This is a problem. On screen, when we feed our young ones with inanity, we starve them of thoughtful entertainment and do them a disservice. But what can we do about it?
