The Wizenard Series: Training Camp is the first volume of a new fantasy series created byKobe Bryant and written by Wesley King. Welcome to two weeks of supernatural basketball training camp! There’s lots of basketball and magic, as well as lessons in self-respect and perseverance. When I got my copy for The Training Camp, my first […]
It’s the damnable literary cousin to typecasting: a surprising number of authors hated the one thing they were remembered for the most. Arthur Conan Doyle, plagued by success (and reader expectations) went so far as to violently murder his super-detective Sherlock Holmes in 1893, only to cave in and bring him back to life a […]
The Oscars are all about the movies, but it’s usually a good night for book lovers too. This year, for example, four of the nine nominees for Best Picture are adaptations of books—The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips (A Captain’s Duty), and Philomena (The Lost Child of Philomena Lee). Of course, it […]
Whether you’re driving, walking, doing mindless busywork, or just don’t feel like carrying around something larger than an MP3 player, sometimes an audio book can be your best friend. But not all print books transition well to audio format: sometimes a hilarious listy humor book sounds stilted when read aloud, or worse, every now and […]