Gallup has just released the results of the 2021 edition of a reading survey they’ve done since 1990. Last year, U.S. Americans reported reading 12.6 books on average, down from 15.6 in 2016, and lower than any of the previous years. The percentage of respondents who said they had not read at all in the
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This Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett article contains spoilers. Organized crime on Tatooine is a full-time job. Boba Fett fights off a bounty hunter and makes some new allies in “The Streets of Mos Espa,” all while also preparing for the next threat that’s incoming. Like the rest of the show, this episode
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This year is a big one for science fiction mythology. If there is any truth in advertising, The Jetsons will be celebrating a blessed pre-event this year. According to the math, 2022 is the year George Jetson will be born. When it premiered on ABC on Sept. 23, 1962, The Jetsons’ promos explained the series,
The United States Mint has announced that Maya Angelou will be the first Black woman to be featured on the U.S. quarter. The quarter will be the first issued as part of a program called “American Women Quarters (AWQ) Program” that will honor American women’s contributions to American history. Other women to be honored in
The recent release of Mass Effect Legendary Edition on Xbox Game Pass has inspired many people to pick up the trilogy for the first time and try to answer that question that has haunted Mass Effect players for years: “Paragon or Renegade?” Well, at the risk of negating the rest of this article, the fact
Daunis Firekeeper is not someone to be messed with. If you recently finished Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley then you know this well. When Daunis witnesses the death of someone she loves, she is thrown head over heels into a top secret undercover investigation. People are dying in connection to the selling of deadly batches
This Dexter: New Blood review contains spoilers. Not many shows get a second chance at a finale. But then again, not many shows’ first finales are as bad as Dexter’s was. After the original Dexter series finale back in 2013 was received, let’s say, less than warmly, Showtime decided to try it again. Following a
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This article contains spoilers for the Dexter: New Blood finale. A polarizing Dexter finale is better than a universally derided one, right? Dexter: New Blood, the revival of Showtime’s hit drama, finished its run last night with a definitive ending that is leagues above the original swan song, but still controversial among the Dexter faithful.
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If you haven’t already checked out Arcane on Netflix, you really need to put it high on your to do list. Yes, it’s based on the world and characters of League of Legends, one of the planet’s most popular battle arena games, but that’s almost irrelevant. Somehow this animated series manages to be amazing in
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We’ve had a lot of fun in recent months looking at the history of some of the hardest games ever made, but it’s hard to talk about the most difficult games of all time without giving a little love to the boss fights that often make them as challenging as they are. So far as
Prison censorship is nothing new, and with ever-shifting regulations about what books can and cannot be donated to libraries and individuals who are incarcerated, even organizations with the mission of getting books into those places are finding themselves surprised. South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF), a private prison managed by the Tennessee-based CoreCivic, rejected a donation
Regeneration stories are a tricky one in that they aren’t entirely consistent. The first time the process of the main character changing their entire physical appearance was eleven years into the show’s first run. That story, ‘Planet of the Spiders’, felt like a summing up of the Pertwee era, a celebration of what had made
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For the first time in what feels like ages, there’s some excitement to Oscar season. To be fair, “excitement” might be a relative word when most of the biggest Oscar contenders in 2022 are, again, movies that didn’t set the box office on fire. Nevertheless, after COVID and a painfully quiet Oscars where the Best
Have you seen daily posts from people you follow on social media that look like a bar graph made of green squares? Welcome to Wordle, the daily game taking the word nerd world by storm. But what is Wordle and how do you play it? What strategies help you decipher what the word of the
Power Rangers is a legacy, joining a very small list of shows that run for such a long period of time, over 28 years! Throughout that time, the series has had its ups, its downs, and its mehs. I’ve been watching since the ripe age of 2 and have always loved the series, even in some