Tuesday, February 3, 2015
27 Hilarious Title Suggestions For The "To Kill A Mockingbird" Sequel
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Keep these in mind for your next book, Harper Lee.
It was recently announced that Harper Lee will release a sequel to her beloved To Kill A Mockingbird.
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"To Kill A Mockingbird" Author Harper Lee To Release Second Book
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, February 03, 2015
The reclusive author famously only published one novel until now.
To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee is set to release her long-awaited second novel this summer, her publisher confirmed to the Associated Press.
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As the publisher told the AP:
Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that "Go Set a Watchman," a novel the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released July 14. Rediscovered last fall, "Go Set a Watchman" is essentially a sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird," although it was finished earlier. The 304-page book will be Lee's second, and the first new work in more than 50 years.
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Which "Game Of Thrones" Characters Would You Rather Hook Up With?
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Roald Dahl Wrote A Heartbreaking Letter In Support Of Vaccination For Measles
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, February 03, 2015
“It really is almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunised.”
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Measles: A Dangerous Illness
Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything.
"Are you feeling all right?" I asked her.
"I feel all sleepy," she said.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.
On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
It is not yet generally accepted that measles can be a dangerous illness. Believe me, it is. In my opinion parents who now refuse to have their children immunised are putting the lives of those children at risk. In America, where measles immunisation is compulsory, measles like smallpox, has been virtually wiped out.
Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be immunised, we still have a hundred thousand cases of measles every year. Out of those, more than 10,000 will suffer side effects of one kind or another. At least 10,000 will develop ear or chest infections. About 20 will die.
LET THAT SINK IN.
Every year around 20 children will die in Britain from measles.
So what about the risks that your children will run from being immunised?
They are almost non-existent. Listen to this. In a district of around 300,000 people, there will be only one child every 250 years who will develop serious side effects from measles immunisation! That is about a million to one chance. I should think there would be more chance of your child choking to death on a chocolate bar than of becoming seriously ill from a measles immunisation.
So what on earth are you worrying about? It really is almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunised.
The ideal time to have it done is at 13 months, but it is never too late. All school-children who have not yet had a measles immunisation should beg their parents to arrange for them to have one as soon as possible.
Incidentally, I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was 'James and the Giant Peach'. That was when she was still alive. The second was 'The BFG', dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children.
15 Awesome Etsy Gifts For The Bibliophiles In Your Life
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Literary-inspired gifts for people who are obsessed with books.
Deathly Hallows earrings:
Show off that Potterhead pride with these Deathly Hallows earrings from Raggedy Fox Designs.
Via etsy.com
Bookish candles:
This Etsy shop has all sorts of fun, soy candles, with scents like "Old Books," "Oxford Library," "The Shire," and "Wizardy Buttery Drink".
Via etsy.com
Literary refrigerator magnets:
What's more fun than making poems and short stories on your fridge? Using the words of your favorite authors, of course! RefrigeratorProse will satisfy your inner bard with a Shakespeare set or have you feeling like a hobbit from Middle Earth with its Lord of the Rings magnets.
Via etsy.com
Book cover electronics cases:
You've never had a phone case, clutch, or Kindle cover as stylish as these book-based designs from Chick-Lit Designs.
Via etsy.com
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