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Community can have a great effect on those who are willing to allow it to. In the movie/ novel A Man Called Ove, an elderly curmudgeon, an orderly bad-tempered and rule-focused man, unexpectedly finds

Wisdom and youth are usually at opposite ends of the spectrum as those who are young wish to be wise and those who have acquired wisdom through experience desire their youth. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Hey guys! @riverflows is doing a contest on what you're currently reading or what's it's your reading queue and I think today or tomorrow may be the last full day to enter? I generally keep my reading

Summer doesn't start for another few weeks but, for the last few days, the temperature outside has been saying otherwise. For me it's also a diet changing time. In addition to more time outside, there's

When committing a crime, it's usually the small details that are missed alongside their attempted cover-ups which give the criminal away. Such is the case of Percival Glyde who marries the young Laura

Two of the main components of a great story are found in character development and those small details which make the characters and their situations more realistic within the world to which they are confined.

Things kept in secret have a nasty habit of revealing themselves at the most unexpected and inopportune moments which is why, depending on what must be kept quiet, most persons will go the extra mile in

Most book lovers share two dreams: the first to be able to enter into the books they read and take up residence where created characters, and their stories, have made their mark on imagination's wandering

For the most part, natural disasters can be prepared for as there is some degree of warning beforehand, but those who have survived them will tell you that planning for the aftermath can be just as important.

The only certainty when governments change is the variant level of chaos that ensues during its transition. Miles Lord can be found in the middle of this chaos as he is an American outsider tasked with

Jane is an orphaned English girl in a society on which she must depend on strained family relations and charity for any hope of living a morally decent and independent life. As both are provided she has

If you've ever lived in a small town, you know that the appeal of being tucked away from the world can quickly become a downside for those unaccustomed to taking pleasure in simpler things or those addicted

When you think about reading your location is almost as important as the actual book you intend to read. Looking back, it's pretty interesting how your reading place changes depending on where you are

Whether by virtue or experience, we each live by a set of self-made rules that encompass how we define ourselves and they serve as a guideline for our morals and actions. In Lee Child's "The Midnight

A parents worst nightmares usually involve them not being present or able to help their children in a time of desperate need which results in a child's injury. Such is the situation described in Oliver's'

Book hangovers. Yes-that's a thing. Depending on how cruel the author has been in dealing out their emotional trauma, book-hangovers generally happen after reading a book so good that it ends up taking

How well do you think you know your significant other? While some might argue that they know TOO much, there is always something new to learn as people grow and change both inside, and outside, of a

Coming of age is not so much an age limit as it is a time period in which the choices we make serve as transition points that help us to discover and define our nature as an adult. Such is the case with

"The Woman In The Window" by A.J. Finn- a Book Review Traveling past the many windows of a city, you sometimes find yourself wondering about people who live on the other side of what has to be

Walking into a bookstore or library and the first thing you see is the neatly stacked pyramid of new book releases waiting for your perusal. If you're like me, you probably already have a somewhat disheveled