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Celebrity bookworms are here to stay. Ever since Oprah Winfrey started her iconic book club in the ’90s, celebrities including Reese Witherspoon, Emma Roberts, Dua Lipa and Jenna Bush Hager have ...

The haikuist admired the muted pinks and dove grays of Marie Laurencin’s (1883–1956) oil paintings of young women in dreamy French landscapes. Murasaki Sagano eyed a dreamy path to the horizon ...

Kenya's most famous writer returns home to talk to BBC World Book Club on 3rd March Duration: 2:22 Lee Child: 'With Jack Reacher, I closed my eyes and wrote' ...

One of the easiest ways to get kids hooked on reading is to get them into a great book series. All it takes is a captivating Book 1, and they're off and running. Fantasy, mystery, science fiction, ...

Starring: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama What it’s about: A low-budget zombie movie production is interrupted when real reanimated corpses attack. Why it is one of the best Japanese horror ...

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