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Playing House's Jessica St. Clair Books Season 3 Visit to Man With a Plan
File this under “totes kewl”: Playing House alumna Jessica St. Clair will guest-star on Man With a Plan‘s third season, TVLine has learned exclusively. St. Clair will appear in two episodes of the Matt LeBlanc sitcom as Kelly, the successful and sophisticated sister of Liza Snyder’s Andi. Currently living in Chicago, Kelly breezes into town […]
7 Books That Put the Fierce into Black Queer History
On September 18, 2018, Danez Smith became the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Forward prize, as well as the first winner to identify as gender neutral, with Don’t Call Us Dead earning the best poetry collection award. Some moments are so powerful that they become historic. As an Afro-German woman, I am used to […]
15 Insightful Parenting Books That Help Your Kids Start off a Healthy Life
It wasn’t that long ago when the only resource that parents could reliably turn to were books. Nowadays, flipping through a book may not be most parents’ first instinct when looking for parenting advice.Instant access to blogs, websites, and forums provide multitudes of answers and “expert opinions,” which can either be helpful or contradicting and […]
Badass Music Books to Take to the Beach
Everyone loves music. It’s a universal thing that brings people together. And many of us music lovers (my musical tastes run the gamut, from Garbage to Motörhead to the Grateful Dead) also love books about music. But how many David Bowie or Prince or Michael Jackson biographies can you read? Here are four new books, […]
Alesha Dixon: My six best books
EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert Bloomsbury, £8.99 Julia Roberts played Elizabeth in the movie, with the famous scene where she’s on the bathroom floor and realises she wants to change her life. She’s having trouble in her relationship so ups and goes around the world, where she finds love. I liked the fact she […]
Toss Books At Your Adorable Friends In Library
Library offers a cute experience of hanging out at the library, making use of all the books by playfully tossing them at your pals. I mean, yeah, reading those books would be good too, but there’s just something about lightly hurling tomes at these grinning, playful folks that just makes you want to keep on […]
7 of the worst TV shows adapted from books, according to critics
John Medland/Freeform There’s a personal quality to novels that makes them tricky to adapt properly, but that has not stopped film and television executives from trying. For every list of successful book adaptations (such as “Game of Thrones”, “Big Little Lies”, and “Friday Night Lights”) there are television shows that missed the mark. Here are […]
5 science-backed books every parent should read to make their kids more healthy, attentive, and disciplined
Shutterstock With new parenting books being published all the time, finding the correct choice can seem overwhelming. Due to the importance of a child’s early developmental years, selecting an appropriate book can have an impact on your child’s future. The following is a selection of books written using a research-oriented approach. New parenting books seem […]
30 Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once In Their Lives
The greatest books are defined as classics for a reason. Written by the greatest literary minds of their time, they have universal themes, characters, experiences, emotions and perspectives that are still relevant today. Some of them are the very inspiration from which entire modern genres of literary fiction have sprung up from. If you love […]