Books That Make You Relive Video Rental Stores, and 90s Cinema Scott Ryan, a pop culture historian and expert on the entertainment industry, has turned his sights on the 1990s in his latest work, The Last Decade of Cinema, a provocative book of dozens of essays looking back at twenty-five movies that defined the century’s … Read more
Books That Make You Understand Anything Is Possible—Even in the Face of Hopelessness At age sixteen, Payam Zamani’s parents paid smugglers to get him to safety across 1,500 miles of desert so he could flee brutal religious persecution in Iran. Not much later, he arrived as a teenage refugee in America, armed with only a … Read more
https://youtu.be/GA9XPTjfsaE Books That Make You Meet a Princess Who Just Might Save YOU Adventure beckons. Immerse yourself in a new, fantastical journey alongside a rebel princess chasing her destiny—one who hardly needs to be saved. Debut author S.G. Blaise’s The Last Lumenian is a coming-of-age tale of the chosen one, Lilla, as she battles outdated … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OvBRTRkOW4 Books That Make You See the Future—As It Pertains to AI in Livestreaming and Digital Media Livestream events like The BookFest, for which Books That Make You is a presenting sponsor, are becoming more and more popular. The pandemic pushed us into a digital landscape, and that momentum remains strong. A leading figure in … Read more
Books That Make You Think About What It Means to be Human, and to Write Like so many arts, writing has been a talent and skill—emphasis on skill, since lots of folks still think that writing is merely natural talent or that storytelling is easy, and reserved for humans since time immemorial. No other being … Read more
Books That Make You Go on a Conscious Adventure with Your Kid—or the Kid In Your Life When we’re children, whimsical storylines can open our minds and hearts, and inspire us. Nowadays, however, that sense of wonder seems more vulnerable than ever, as our society puts so much emphasis on structured learning, timelines, the screen … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9gtLHvjMc Books That Make You Join Up With Aliens to Face a Common Enemy—With Maybe Some Romance on the Side Let’s bend some genres, shall we? Award-winning author and BookFest Bellwether Beth Freely is also a businesswoman and publishing industry professional, and while raised in upstate New York who spent some time in Great Britan, … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsSMxBRL4T8 Books That Make You Curl Up With a Fun, Fast-Paced Mystery Nothing beats a book that makes you want to pour a cup of something warm and cozy up by a rainy window while the fireplace crackles. And that’s what author Donalee Moulton delivers in her mystery novel, Hung Out to Die. The story … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTPaEi84Nlw Books That Make You Think About What It Means to be Human, and to Write Like so many arts, writing has been a talent and skill—emphasis on skill, since lots of folks still think that writing is merely natural talent or that storytelling is easy, and reserved for humans since time immemorial. No other … Read more
Books That Make You Enter A Dark Fantasy World with Politics Like Our Own We all love villains we love to hate, and a spoonful of satire. Wrap this up in a dark fantasy world, and political commentary, and you might have something like The Amber Menhir, the first book in “The Shadows of the … Read more