An honest mistake of misattribution, made right by the author.
AP Richard Drew
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Newly Discovered Dr. Seuss Book To Hit The Shelves In July
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The book is quite old, but is also quite new, and starting this summer it will be coming to you!
But this summer publishers will release one more rhyming read.
Random House Children's Books
On Wednesday, Random House Children's Books announced that it will publish on July 28 a recently uncovered manuscript entitled What Pet Should I Get? penned by Theodor Seuss Geisel, the man behind Dr. Seuss.
In 2013, Geisel's widow and secretary found manuscripts and illustrations for two other books, which will also be published.
It's believed What Pet Should I Get? was written sometime between 1958 and 1962.
What's One Library Every Book Lover Needs To Visit?
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The only thing more beautiful than the buildings are the stories inside!
Any book lover knows: If it's vacation time, it's time to check out a cool new library.
Chances are, there's one that you're still dreaming about.
Disney
Maybe you whiled an hour away in the regal reading room at La Sorbonne in Paris.
Flickr: imagineitall / Creative Commons
Perhaps you spent an afternoon in the Vatican Library in Vatican City, and you're still thinking about the portrait-covered arches.
Flickr: michalo / Creative Commons
Maybe you visited the George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and pretended you were Belle in "Beauty and the Beast."
Flickr: petroffm / Creative Commons
What Book Helped You Get Over A Breakup?
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 18, 2015
A good book > ice cream and Oreos.
In love, as in life, there is no such thing as a clean break.
New Line Cinema
No matter if you're the one doing the breaking up, or if you're the one being broken up with...
Fox
...your heart feels like it could actually break in two.
Focus Features
Sure, you could reach for ice cream and Oreos to fill the hole in your heart.
Fox
Read The Heartwarming Letter J.K. Rowling Wrote To A Fan She Met On Twitter
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 18, 2015
“That you have turned out to be a compassionate, moral, highly motivated person is high testimony to your courage. Gryffindor for you, my lad…”
Then in July, Johnnie also had the chance to meet Rowling at a book signing for The Silkworm, which she wrote under her pen name, Robert Galbraith.
And she remembered him!
"I told Jo, 'Thank you so much, you’ve really changed my life,” in which Jo replied, 'Wow, that’s an amazing thing to say,'" Johnnie told BuzzFeed. "I then told Jo, 'I was the Dobby eyes boy you replied to on Twitter, do you remember me?' and she shouted 'Ahh, it’s you! Of course I remember you!'"
Photo courtesy of Johnnie Blue
Why I'm Moving Back To South Africa
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Award-winning journalist Jonny Steinberg on the man who inspired him to write his new book, A Man of Good Hope, as well as return to his home country.
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed
I am not a person prone to smugness. When I say that my life is the sanest and gentlest a person in our times can hope to live, it is with gratitude, not self-satisfaction. My house is near the centre of Oxford, a famously old and beautiful city, and I commute to work each morning on a bicycle alongside a quiet canal. The journey takes no more than seven minutes – eight or nine if I stop to admire the swans; I hardly remember what it is like to sit in traffic or to grind against a stranger on public transport.
I teach at Oxford University where I have a tenured job – a rare privilege in this day and age. The students are clever and hardworking, my colleagues considerate and sane, my days never less than interesting.
Work seldom ends after 7pm. On summer evenings, my partner and I often stroll along the Thames into Port Meadow, cross its 300 acres of ancient pasture, and eat in the village on the other side. The light in the meadow is gorgeous from May through September, turning the grass a luminous green I last saw in childhood dreams.
I have just resigned from this job and am giving up this life. In a couple of months, my partner and I will be moving to Johannesburg, South Africa, where I was born. It is a city that heaves with umbrage. "There is a daily, low-grade civil war at every stop street," the artist, William Kentridge, has recently remarked. Sometimes, the war moves up a grade; many friends and family members have stared down a gun barrel over the years, and each act of violence is relived in conversation a hundred times over. It is a city where being white or well-heeled attracts some to beg from you and others to insult you; where life is so palpably unfair that the rich live in a state of astonishing denial while among the poor antipathy runs so deep that if you listen you can hear it hum.
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed
Make no mistake: I am not going to a life of hardship. I will have another tenured job at an institute staffed by some of the smartest people I know; the work is bound to be fulfilling. Labour in South Africa being cheap, we will employ somebody to dust our furniture and polish our floors. And, yet, what we are doing goes against the grain. Between my siblings and my first cousins, there are eleven of us in my generation and nine live abroad, all in rock-solid places like Canada and Australia. I am a Jew. My kind tends to sniff out trouble generations in advance. We like the foundations beneath our feet to run deep. While my move is by no means crazy, I am swimming in the opposite direction.
None of us understands ourselves especially well. We are dark inside and were we to light the whole place up we would go mad. My reflections on my move are no doubt riddled with self-justifications of which I'm barely aware.
There is nonetheless something for which I know I ache, and it is only to be found in my native land. When I lock eyes with a stranger on Johannesburg's streets, there is a flicker, a flash communication, so fast it is invisible, yet so laden that no words might describe it. This stranger may be a man in a coat and tie, or a woman who wears the cotton uniform of a maid, or a construction worker stripped to the waist. Whoever he is, he clocks me as I pass, and reads me and my parents and my grandparents; and I, too, conjure, in an instant, the past from which he came. As we brush shoulders the world we share rumbles around us, its echoes resounding through generations. He may look at me with resentment, or longing, or with the twistedness that comes with hating; he may catch me smiling to myself and grin. I am left with a feeling, both sweet and sore, that I am not in control of who I am. I am defined by the eyes that see me on the street. I cannot escape them. I cannot change what they see. We may one day fight each other or even kill each other, yet our souls are entwined because we have made another.
Fifty Shades Of Gandalf The Grey
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 18, 2015
“I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure…”
Jarry Lee / BuzzFeed / Warner Bros.
Click play and scroll down!
"So this is just an interview for the newspaper..."
Universal Pictures
"Gandalf? Yes."
Warner Bros.
MMA Or 50 Shades Of Grey?
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Are these terms from Martial Arts or BDSM? See how many you get right!
This Is What You Get When You Combine Pinoy Humor With "50 Shades Of Grey"
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 18, 2015
We Know Which Superhero You Are
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 18, 2015
It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s a quiz!
Ira Madison III for BuzzFeed / Via Thinkstock / Marvel Entertainment
George R.R. Martin Thinks We're Going To Hate The New Season Of "Game Of Thrones"
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 18, 2015
“Everybody better be on their toes.”
Lucas Jackson / Reuters
George RR Martin has dropped a bombshell on Game of Thrones fans ahead of the season five premiere, warning them to "be on their toes" and expect some big shocks.
The US author has hinted that even those who read his A Song of Ice and Fire novel series will be surprised by the TV storyline, with not one, not two, but four characters set to meet their makers.
"People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy," he said at the Writers Guild West Awards on Saturday.
"Everybody better be on their toes. [Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss] are even bloodier than I am."
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