books

Illinois' statewide reading program has announced its 2015 book selections. According to a press release, Illinois Reads is the yearly statewide project that promotes reading for Illinois citizens of all ages, beginning with read-aloud books for babies...

My dad is a huge Stephen King fan and as I was growing up there almost always was a King novel on the end table near his recliner. I tried a few times to read a couple titles, but found I liked the movies based on his books a little better. I've seen "Christine," "Misery," and even "Firestarter" more times than I can count...

The great P.J. O'Rouke joined "Riley & Scot" recently to talk about his new book "The Baby Boom" and what his generation did right and wrong.

What an amazing way to start the new year on the show! I'd been looking forward to having author/radio host/lawyer/law professor Hugh Hewitt on "Riley & Scot" to talk about his new book, "The Happiest Life".  Following his tweets, and the tweets of frequent contributors on our show, I noticed we fished from the same pond of radio guests.  ...

As we close the book on 2013 (no pun intended), I wanted to continue to revisit a couple of interviews from the end of the year. In December, we talked with former Illinois hoops star Stephen Bardo, author of the new book, “The Flyin' Illini“...

As we close the book on 2013 (no pun intended), I wanted to revisit a couple of interviews from the end of the year. In November, we talked with author Rob Carroll, co-author of the new book, "Wrigley Field: 100 Stories for 100 Years".   The book celebrates the historic ballpark's upcoming anniversary in 2014 with stories and photos from a slew of different writers...

Every morning, Riley & I have the in-studio television monitor tuned to "Fox & Friends" on FNC to see what's being discussed.  It's been this way as long as we've done our show together, and we often remark that we never get to hear the actual voices of the hosts or guests; we only read them on the closed-captioning. So ...

We recently had the pleasure of welcoming Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on the show to discuss his new book "Unintimidated" and his re-election effort in the Badger State.  We joked with him as we brought him on the show thatb not much has happened since the last time he joined us, right...

Today's reading experience is nothing like the literal "page-turners" of yesteryear. But even with the e-Book, the Kindle and the iPad at our fingertips, we can still spot a wacky romance novel cover from a mile off.