Today's reading experience is nothing like the literal "page-turners" of yesteryear. But even with the e-Book, the Kindle and the iPad at our fingertips, we can still spot a wacky romance novel cover from a mile off.
They've barely begun filming 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' and we're already reporting 'Mockingjay' news! It looks like the two-part finale in the trilogy might be getting a little pedigree boost from Emmy-winning writer Danny Strong, who scripted the upcoming HBO flick 'Game Change.'
September 24, 2012 With the Presidential election coming in November the timing of the release of a new book called ‘Don’t Know Much About American Presidents’ is perfect. Most people know the first and sixteenth Presidents, Washington and Lincoln, and more recent Presidents, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Obama, but there are a lot of Presidents that have been forgotten. Some don’t get as many mentions in history books as others but some are truly forgettable.
There are all sorts of taboo fetishes out there that can eventually catch up with a person and force the proverbial hammer of the law to come swinging down something rotten, spoiling all of the fun.
That is exactly what happened to a 61-year-old man who Japanese police say stole nearly 1,100 library books to satisfy what appears to be a mean case of kleptomania combined with an intense passion for the bound literary word.
