Last year, my boyfriend moved to Boston. I live in New York.

He comes to see me every weekend. I'm a very lucky girl. But we were the kind of sickeningly in love couple that spent every single moment together because we had so much fun together. He is...

Today woud have been Laura Ingalls Wilder's 146th birthday (she was born in 1867).

When I was a kid, I really loved historical fiction. I specifically loved Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series.

As a child, I could easily romanticize living on a prairie in...

I had some terrible taste when I was a teenager.

My mother had great taste, and would look at me with horror when she'd see the outfits I had concocted. She'd wince when I pleaded with her to buy things in Hot Topic (I'm dying of shame as I...

Today would have been Edith Wharton's 151st birthday. It was less than a year ago that Jonathan Franzen simply dismissed the great author as being an unattractive woman, but I think Edith Wharton was a hottie, a badass, and an amazing writer. To Franzen's criticisms, I respond with...

Last Friday night, I was walking across an intersection in Manhattan. A cab driver was aggressively (99 percent of Manhattan cab drivers do everything aggressively) trying to turn right, and almost hit me. I gave him my death stare, as I usually do when cab drivers are out of line....

Last night, YA author John Green held a sell-out event called "The Evening of Awesome" at New York City's Carnegie Hall.

It was, well, AWESOME.

The event was held in honor of the one-year anniversary of Green's bestselling book The Fault in Our Stars (included in...

Last night's Bachelor episode went semi-bookish. Bachelor Sean Lowe posed for Harlequin romance novel book covers with some of the contestants.

Though the winner'sKristy's, book cover with Sean won't be published, she will receive a three-book cover model opportunity with Harlequin for upcoming titles.

Inferno, Dan Brown's new book about Dante, is coming out on May 14, 2013 from Doubleday in the U.S., and Transworld Publishers in the UK (a division of Random House).

Brown announced that he was writing something new in May 2012. Though Brown had been cryptic about...

Oscar nominations for 2013 were announced this morning, and this is clearly a great year for book adaptations.

Five of the nine Best Picture nominations are book adaptations.

Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell's adaptation of Matthew Quick's novel, is actually the only film to be nominated for the Big...

The film rights to Maria Semple's summer book hit Where'd You Go Bernadette were acquired by Annapurna Pictures and Color Force on Tuesday.

Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (who co-wrote 500 Days of Summer) will write the screenplay, and Semple will serve as executive producer, along...

Today, Richard Blanco was announced as the 2013 Inaugural poet. He will recite a poem at President Obama's swearing-in ceremony on Monday, January 21.

Not only is Blanco the youngest person chosen to to be the Inaugural poet, but he is also the first Hispanic or LGBT person to receive...

It's safe to say that I've always been a big reader. I can clearly remember the first time I sat and read a full book, when everything just clicked. It was magical.

I grew into a full on reading nerd. When I was around seven, I used to write...

Today would have been Jane Austen's 237th birthday (she was born in 1775). And yet, she's endured. Some might say that her advice for women is old-fashioned ("It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."...

Book gifts are difficult to give. People who don't enjoy reading are, of course, going to be disappointed ('Is this a new DVD?!' Nope, it's a book). The holidays are never a good time to get someone who hates reading to love reading. After all, they'll be distracted with everything...

If I have to hear or see "YOLO" one more time, I'm going to rip out my eyes and ear drums (not really, but I'm a big fan of hyperbole).

For those of you have been locked in a closet with no internet all year, YOLO is an acronym for...

Fifty Shades of Grey, a not-very-well-written book by a previously unknown author, is the best-selling novel of all time in the United Kingdom -- a nation that has produced no shortage of great novels. It has sold 40 million copies around the world, inspiring parodies, fan fiction, an album, and...

When I was watching the second presidential debate, did I notice Romney's mention of "binders of women"? Sure, I did. Did I notice that President Obama finally mentioned Romney's 47 percent comment? You bet I did.

But you know what else I noticed? President Obama...

Yesterday, JK Rowling's "The Casual Vacancy" came out. Some of you (especially non-Harry Potter fans) might not be so keen on reading it. Why spend $35 on a 500-page tome written by a children's author?

At the same time, we feel that in order to take part...

You know what word I can't stand hearing? "Panties."

The word "panties" earns my vote for "worst word of all time." But there are plenty of people who find it perfectly acceptable.

And the most baffling thing: I can't fully explain why I dislike it so much. What did...

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