Books

As a writer I can tell you that one of the most common dreams – and one of the most common things other people ask us – is about getting our books made into movies. These days, of course, television has pretty much eclipsed film when it comes to nabbing excellent and exciting source material...

Americans love a good road trip. There’s something about the freedom of the road, windows down, cheap gas station food scattered on the passenger seat, and the possibilities that lie ahead that just gets us going. It’s probably partly because we have all of this dang space to explore, but most of it just seems to...

Harry Potter is one of those properties that belongs now to the people who love it, I think – we’ve grown up with the books during our formative years, we waited anxiously for each movie to be released, and now we watch them any time they happen to pop up on ABC Family, right? Oh,...

I know that celebrities seem to have it all, but I think one aspect of their lives that would be kind of a nightmare would be dealing with people in their everyday lives. I know, I know, they signed up for it once they decided to become an actor/singer/etc., but it’s gotta get old to...

If you think of Dracula as the origin of the modern vampire story in Western literature, well, you might be stunned and also amazed to learn that Bram Stoker, in this instance, needs to take two steps back. Though it has been more than a hundred years since Stoker meticulously researched and penned Dracula, there was, in fact,...

Roald Dahl is one of the world’s best-selling authors, most notable for his children’s books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda and more. You’ll be hard pressed to find someone who’s never read or seen a movie based on one of his stories. Plenty of us will have fond...

People who aren’t readers sometimes profess to not be able to understand our fascination with the written word, but for those of us who drank the Kool-Aid early (and continue to drink it often), there’s no question that a book has the power to change lives. These 20 people recall fondly the books that separated...

If you’re a reader, there’s no doubt you have a short list of books that have completely changed your life. A book that, after you read the final page, you knew you were never going to be quite the same person you had been before you read it. Here’s a list of 21 reads that...