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daBinsi / Flickr / CC 3.0 Send Us a Picture! It’s time for pumpkin lattes, crunchy leaves, good books, and pictures of your cozy library or you reading - or just something bookwormish! Whether it’s a picture of your personal library, a friend’s towering book collection, a cozy evening spent reading,  an actual library, or something really artistic related to reading, you can enter your photo for a chance to win a feature post on Readers Lane (including your photo, a bio, and links to your blog, website, photographer’s Facebook, etc.) and a bundle of four cozy mystery [...]

Gone Girl Reviews The opening-weekend reviews are in! What's everyone saying about the Gone Girl movie? Our sister site Movie Rewind has the Book vs. Movie rundown. NPR says David Fincher's direction "delivers jolts designed to make audiences squeal, while also letting you identify with characters one moment, and wish you hadn't the next."' RogerEbert.com says this "overheated," "plot-obsessed picture" is a "sick film, and often brilliant." Entertainment Weekly praises the cast's "gallows humor" and "calculating oiliness," and gives it an A. Rottentomatoes.com gives it a pretty-darn-good 87%. EW reports that Gone Girl pulled in $38 million for its opening [...]

Congratulations to author David Xiang on winning Readers Lane’s final Flash Fiction contest!  Here is his story! martinak15 / Flickr / CC 3.0 Searching for Starlight Author: David Xiang I found her near a lake. Drenched in insects and covered with grass stains, she was sitting by the edge, searching for something in the pristine ripples. The tide was slowly receding as I approached her. The clouds parted to give my privacy, and the winds picked up to distract any intruders. As her image grew larger, I noticed her inner beauty. Sensing pride, compassion, and kindness, I slowly [...]