| | If you're having trouble viewing this email,
click here | | | | | | This Week in Books & Literature | | We have some fun with time travel, get reflective about great lit, and take a closer look a strange new trend in bestsellers. | | | | | What's Up with Coloring Books for Adults? | | "If you look at the bestseller lists maintained around the country, you'll see a lot of familiar and expected stuff: the literary novels and the political manifestos by presidential candidates, the readable histories and the quick and dirty thrillers turned out by writing factories...Sometimes those sales are in line with our understanding of the universe—oh look, another James Patterson thriller!—but sometimes things sell like hotcakes and leave us mystified and confused. For example: Adult coloring books." | | | | | The 3 Essential Ingredients of a Great Book | | "I've been sitting here wondering what makes a good book, like I often do. You know what I'm talking about, right? The kind that makes you stay up turning pages when you should have sense enough to go to sleep. The ones that are so real you feel like you're living and breathing in the world. Once I read a book that scared me so much, I had to shower with the curtain open. Those kinds of books--the ones that alter the course of our lives in one way or the other--are the ones I'm talking about here." | | | | | 5 Great Beach Reads Set in the Ancient World | | "Everyone needs a good summer read for beach season. And what's better than an engaging book with a gladiator hero, his muscles and hair rippling in the Roman breeze, or a pharaoh-queen staking her claim to the throne? Answer: Nothing!" | | | | | | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Entertainment newsletter.
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