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My Lobotomy, a memoir by Howard Dully, tells the story of how a 12-year-old Howard Dully was unrightfully lobotomized at the insistence of his parents and with the help of the infamous Dr. Freeman.
A Guide for First-Time Authors on How to Self-Publish your Book. Tips and Lists of the Best Services for Self-Publishing Digital EBooks, and Print books.
No matter what type it is, flights can be tedious and tiring, and a good book can help the time pass quickly. Below is a list of some books we think are perfect travel companions and are sure to entertain, even on the worst of trips!
So fleeting is the time.
The bills to pay, the clothes to wash,
and the kids to bed by nine.
Where do I find the time?
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.
Oh, where do the hours go?
This hunger will not tire.
The heart knows all too well,
What the lips ache to tell.
The eyes begin to dance,
No more concern for romance.
A slight touch of the hand,
Weakness sets in and you cannot stand.
This passion yearns to be fed,
A tangled mess of naked flesh falls to the bed.
The nails claw and tear,
Hair and sweat are all you wear.
Margaret Atwood's brilliant dystopian novel "Oryx and Crake" depicts a society destroyed by genetic engineering and bioterrorism in a tale readers will not soon forget. Read our editorial book review of "Oryx and Crake".
In the form of a ray of light
That slowly begins to scatter
Against the darkest of the night
Blinded no more are we
On our hopes that were forlorn
Now that we finally see
The light of darkness’ morn
Read our review of "Decanting a Murder", a cozy mystery novel by Nadine Nettmann.
Transatlantic, a New York Times bestseller, seems to be an impossible feat as it endeavors to encompass generations of stories, succeeding in about 300 pages. The award-winning author Colum McCann shocks his audience once again with a novel that breaks the distance of time and of oceans, weaving together a fiction and nonfiction tale that follows three unforgettable crossings of the Atlantic Ocean.
In understanding any work of fiction, the consideration of words and language is, at minimum, implicitly essential—words allow the writer to build the fictional world and create the atmosphere that readers turn to when examining a text. While understanding words and their effects is central to any effort toward thoughtful reading, rarely does a book urge the reader to consider words and language the way Elif Batuman’s The Idiot does.
