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Rebecca Sive's latest book wants to help females with their New Year’s resolutions of changing the world.

Looking to get your New Year’s resolutions in line before 2022? Rebecca Sive's latest book is a tool to help girls and women get in touch with their inner voice and power to change the world.

December 24, 2021

Biblioracle's top fiction books of 2021

I read so much fiction this year. I haven’t read this many novels in a year since I was a kid and let me tell you, these books were good.

December 19, 2021

What We’re Reading: ‘Energy Never Dies' by Ayana Contreras

A chapter or so into Ayana Contreras' book “Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism & Creativity in Chicago,” it seems remarkable nobody has written this yet.

December 16, 2021

Author Anne Rice dies

Anne Rice, the gothic novelist widely known for her bestselling novel “Interview With the Vampire,” died late Saturday at the age of 80.

December 12, 2021

Biblioracle’s picks for best memoirs and biography for 2021

When I looked back at my list of 2021 reads I realized that I had a sufficient catalog of these stories to pay special tribute to the Biblioracle Book Awards for Memoir and Biography for the very first time.

December 09, 2021

Biblioracle’s 8 favorite nonfiction books of 2021

I do not warrant that these are the “best” books of the year because I haven’t read all of the books, but these are books very much worth your time.

December 03, 2021

What We’re Reading: Books about books

Frankly, it got out of hand, got away from me — became a whole thing, as the kids say.

December 02, 2021

What We’re Reading: Books on ‘30 Rock,’ ‘Sopranos’ and ‘The Office’

I’ve been reading books about peak TV. Meaning, new oral histories about great television made from roughly 1998 to 2012 — what’s known now as the New Golden Age of Television.

November 25, 2021

Books gift guide for 2021: Ideas that are not so obvious

What follows here are oodles of conveniently grouped ideas for book lovers, but with a twist: Very few of these nearly 50 titles are obvious.

November 24, 2021

Biblioracle: About Nick Offerman’s “Where the Deer and the Antelope Play"

The actor and comedian's book is “Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside” and has depths you may not expect.

November 24, 2021

Teen author Amelie Liu wants young POC to celebrate their multiculturalism this Thanksgiving

The pandemic forced biracial teen Amelie Liu to address her dad's death. It was through addressing her grief that she realized she didn't feel as much of a connection to her Chinese identity as she did with her Jewish identity. The Hyde Park resident wrote a children's Thanksgiving book about it, so others can celebrate their multiculturalism.

November 23, 2021

Biblioracle: In praise of Graywolf Press

Graywolf Press is a nonprofit publisher of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction located in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which is, in my opinion, pound for pound, the greatest publisher in the world.

November 17, 2021

Book review: Scottie Pippen's ‘Unguarded’

Scottie Pippen would like you to know that Michael Jordan and the rest of his teammates on the Chicago Bulls don’t win six NBA titles in the ‘90s without him.

November 15, 2021

What We’re Reading: 4 Korean American memoirs

Cathy Park Hong writes that whenever she hears someone say that “‘Asians are next in line to be white,’ I replace the word ‘white’ with ‘disappear.’ Asians are next in line to disappear.”

November 11, 2021

'Roy’s World' movie about writer Barry Gifford debuts in Chicago

There is nothing sentimental about this remarkable story, this film. “Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago” screens as part of the Chicago Critics Film Festival.

November 09, 2021

Biblioracle: Penguin Random House shouldn’t eat Simon & Schuster

Sometimes, you don’t know which was the keystone species until it’s gone. Then you’re in trouble. That's true in book publishing.

November 08, 2021

What We’re Reading: Kevin Boyle and Ron Howard

It’s not the ‘60s you know, it’s not the highlight reel you see in your head whenever someone just mentions the ‘60s. It’s not Stones and Dylan, astronauts and MLK Jr.

November 04, 2021

Column: New biography ‘Led Zeppelin’

It was with the spirit of that much younger self that I looked forward to “Led Zeppelin: The Biography” by noted music biographer Bob Spitz.

November 02, 2021

Biblioracle: For Halloween, 8 chilling titles

I don’t remember the specifics of the ghost stories from those childhood parties, but I remember the feeling they’d deliver, the chill and shivers of being, for lack of a better phrase, completely freaked out.

October 29, 2021

What We’re Reading: 10 Ghost Stories

If you read enough and regularly, it’s hard to avoid bumping into a ghost story. Nearly everything, read in the proper light, is a ghost story. In fact, “the best ghost stories don’t have ghosts."

October 28, 2021

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