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Five Plum Reasons to Read Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich
It’s hard to believe that it has been 20 years since Janet Evanovich’s first Stephanie Plum novel was released (One For the Money hit the shelves in the summer of 1994). Equally stunning is the fact...
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Kickstart This: 8 Crowd-Funding Projects By Fictional Characters
This week, it was once again demonstrated that irony is not lost on the internet, when more than 5,000 people donated more than $45,000 to a Kickstarter campaign for potato salad. A single serving of...
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If MORE Famous Literary Characters Had Online Dating Profiles
We know, we know. The sequel is never as good as the original, but ya’ll loved the first post so much, we just had to imagine what some other favorite fictional characters would write on their online...
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10 Characters Who Ended Up With The Wrong People
Very often we turn to books for the satisfaction of a love story well told. If it’s done right, we get all swoony, clutch the tomes to our winsome bosoms (or winsome pectorals, as the case may be),...
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25 Signs You’re Actually a Villain
We all harbor dark thoughts from time to time. Tell your vegan friend there’s butter in the pasta, or just let them eat it? Engage your rivals in a public debate, or poison their families and nuke...
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What if These Classic Literary Characters Were on Facebook?
Love it or hate it, Facebook, in its addictive glory, is a force so captivating it causes many of us to forego life’s responsibilities in favor of reading and posting status updates. And while there...
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My 5 Weirdest Fictional Crushes
You can keep your Darcies, your Rochesters, your Wentworths (okay, okay, save one Wentworth for me). Because the best fictional crushes are the weird ones, the ones that require you to read between the...
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10 Reasons Batman Is the Perfect Book Nerd
HAPPY BATMAN DAY, EVERYONE! Today in stores Barnes & Noble is celebrating the man, the bat, the legend. It’s his 75th anniversary, and he doesn’t look a day over 35. As a lifelong devotee of both...
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Your Weirdest Fictional Crushes
Last week we asked about your weirdest fictional crushes, and the responses were just as strange and delightful as we hoped. Two things we learned: 1) Anybody can become a crush object, and 2) All it...
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4 Stories Where Psychiatrists Take Center Stage
Ever make a slip of the tongue? Ever drive home, get to you front door, then realize you don’t have your keys, that somewhere between the car and the stoop you lost them, distracted by your thoughts?...
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In Which Author Heidi Schulz Interviews the Characters of Hook’s Revenge
Heidi Schulz’s swashbuckling adventure story Hook’s Revenge is sharp as a cutlass and funny as a puffy pirate shirt. It follows the unladylike adventures of one Jocelyn Hook, the daughter of the most...
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5 YA-Lit Misfits We Love
If there’s one thing anyone who’s watched The Breakfast Club knows, it’s that anyone can be a misfit. It isn’t just about how you fit into the world around you, but how you fit into your own skin. As...
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Our Favorite Heroines of Banned Books
Being a character in a banned book is no joke—you’re dealing with enough sex, drugs, and violence to find yourself kicked off of library shelves around the world. We hear about the male rebels, the...
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Which Literary Character Would Be Your Childhood Best Friend?
Remember your childhood best friend? Whether it was a neighborhood kid you met on the playground, your favorite sibling, or even an imaginary companion, we all had that one best buddy with whom we did...
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5 Supporting Characters who Deserve Their Own Books
Pity the literary supporting character. Unlike television, which has never met a minor supporting character it doesn’t want to parlay into an uneven, unwatched spinoff, literature by and large leaves...
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10 Literary Characters Who Are Having a Worse Day Than You
Everybody has odd days, “off” days, stressful days, chaotic days. But when it comes to those really awful days—the days when you lock yourself out of your apartment while wearing nothing but a shirt...
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8 Essential Elements of a Juicy YA Love Triangle
Rebecca Serle’s Famous in Love (out next month) is a deliciously meta YA novel: aspiring actress Paige Townsen lands her dream breakout movie role as the lead in an adaptation of Locked, the hottest...
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Perfect Celebrity Love Matches for Our Favorite Fictional Characters
In third grade, I was in love with JTT (who wasn’t?) but I also dreamed of running away with the Artful Dodger. For readers, there’s little distinction between speculating on the love lives of famous...
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Literary Astrology: Virgo
Virgos are born between the dates of August 22 and September 23. Like their namesake, the maiden, they are modest and shy and known to be picky. Virgos are fastidious, highly analytical, and...
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4 Characters Who Keep Their Secrets
I love first-person narrators. They have a special power to draw me in, making me feel invested as they share their deepest thoughts and emotions. Then there are the unreliable narrators, folks who,...
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