In honor of National Chocolate Day, here are 6 great literature quotes about chocolates (Gathered by Regina Kenney) “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” ― Charles M. Schulz “Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the … Continue reading 6 Great Literature Quotes About Chocolate

by Lee Cross What makes a great book? Well as every reader knows that varies from title to title, and that’s even before you start factoring in things like personal taste. I’m a bit of genre whore and find myself jumping between them, pretty much with the changing of the weather. For example, my favourite … Continue reading Leopold Broom Investigates: A Matter Of Time

In honor of the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner being announced this week, here are book quotes from all of the past Man Booker Prize Winning Novels. [Gathered by Regina Kenney] “That’s the problem with history, we like to think it’s a book—that we can turn the page and move the fuck on. But history … Continue reading Great Quotes From Every Man Booker Prize Winning Novel

by Colleen White Yesterday, the New York Times announced that, for the first time, Elizabethan playwright and Shakespeare contemporary Christopher Marlowe will be listed as a co-author on one of Shakespeare’s plays. In their newest edition of the Henry VI plays, the Oxford University Press will credit Marlowe as co-author on all three parts. It … Continue reading 6 Facts about Shakespeare’s Rival, Christopher Marlowe

by Regina Kenney Mid-way through my fourth Haruki Murakami book, Kafka On The Shore, and I have noticed something... Though you could not pin Murakami to one literature genre (Norweigan Wood is a sad, realistic tale about suicide, Hard-Boiled Wonderland at the End of The World is a bizarre , borderline sci-fi and The Wind-Up … Continue reading Murakami Loves His Pasta

by Lee Cross They’ve existed from The Golden Age through to what is currently called The Modern Age… but finally I think their time has come; we might be about to enter The Age of the Comic Book. The next step of literary evolution could be found in the pages of the Graphic Novel; that … Continue reading Why Graphic Novels Are The Next Generation Of Storytelling

For October, we are creating an Ultimate Halloween Bookshelf of the scariest books we've read. This list has a severe lack of books from the king of horror, Stephen King. As a tribute, here are 20 of King's scariest lines and quotes. “Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English … Continue reading 20 Horrifying Quotes From Stephen King

by Lee Cross I typed that title, The Future of Fear, intending to wrap up my Halloween series of blogs with an installment about what monsters I believe the worlds of books will bring us in the years to come. We’ve had vampires, werewolves, serial killers and zombies… viruses that have ended some worlds, while … Continue reading Leopold Broom Investigates: The Future Of Fear

by Lee Cross Selected winter reads for the dark nights in... As the nights draw in and the sunshine disappears from Dublin for another year, I’ve picked out few book suggestions to tide you over until after the holiday season. Each story contains darkness yet hope. Each is a journey of discovery to places you’re … Continue reading 4 Great Books To Read in Autumn