“Harry Potter is not a children’s book.
You know the struggle.
You're like:
TriStar
Everyone else is like:
Nickelodeon
Basically:
Disney
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
What We Talk About When We Talk About PostSecret
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Frank Warren’s PostSecret project in a post-“Secret” world.
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed
For more than 10 years, strangers from around the world have been sending their secrets to a suburban home in Germantown, Maryland, scribbled or pasted onto anonymous postcards. Over time, the mailbox at 13345 Copper Ridge Road has held not only secrets but wedding bands, engagement rings, and razor blades: objects taped to cards and sent away as untraceable secrets themselves.
And every Sunday, Frank Warren — the founder of PostSecret and keeper of the mailbox — has dutifully scanned and posted a handful of these postcards to his lo-fi Wordpress site, PostSecret.com. What began as a personal art project has become an international community, now entering its second decade.
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There are two secrets that Warren has seen hundred of times. The first is "I pee in the shower." The second?
"I see this secret every time I go to my mailbox. I always see it expressed a different way," Warren said in an interview with BuzzFeed. "It's basically a story about trying to find that one person who you can tell all your secrets to. There's that common thread, that search for intimacy, that search for the one person we can be our whole and true selves with."
Now, of course, there's an app for that. In fact, there are several. But the world is a markedly different place today than it was a decade ago, when Warren began the PostSecret project. It was 2004: there was no Twitter, there was no Instagram, and Facebook had just launched out of Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room. The iPhone didn't exist. Edward Snowden was 21.
Today's top secret-sharing apps — Whisper, Secret, and Yik Yak — are rumored to be valued at a combined total of well over $400 million. But before the economy of secrets boomed to its current size, there was Frank Warren: a man with a mailbox in Germantown, Maryland. In 2004, Warren started an art project called PostSecret, calling for strangers to send him postcards with their anonymous secrets. He hoped to receive 365. To date, he has received more than a million from around the world.
The 28 Best Books By Women In 2014
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Poetry, fiction, and non-fiction that killed it this year. Ranked in no particular order.
BuzzFeed
Gray Wolf Press
John Lucas
47 Incredibly Unique Books To Buy Everyone On Your List
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A Definitive Ranking Of Jane Austen's Male Hotties
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Don’t get me started on Collins.
William Collins, Pride and Prejudice
Pros: Are there any?????
Cons: Clingy, annoying, unattractive, conceited. Has as much personality as a damp rag, but less useful.
BBC
Philip Elton, Emma
Pros: Um... good with words, I guess?
Cons: HEARTLESS PLAYER.
Miramax
George Wickham, Pride and Prejudice
Pros: Really hot. Pretty charming. Nice hair.
Cons: Dirtbag.
BBC
John Willoughby, Sense and Sensibility
Pros: Chivalrous!
Cons: Self-centered and materialistic.
Mirage Productions
J.K. Rowling Announces That There Was At Least One Jewish Student At Hogwarts
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, December 17, 2014
What Is The Most Christmas Book Of All Time?
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When it comes to Christmas books, which one gives you all the ~FEELS~?
21 Of The Wisest Things Jane Austen Ever Said
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Jane Austen was way ahead of her time. Happy 239th birthday to one of the greatest English novelists in history!
1. "I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."
–Sense and Sensibility
2. "We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."
–Mansfield Park
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4. "There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
–Emma
21 New Year's Resolutions For Twentysomethings From "The Baby-Sitter's Club"
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, December 17, 2014
We in this New Year. Finna get crunk. Baby-sitting on fleek. Da fuq.
Confront something you're afraid of.
Whether it's ending a relationship, writing that novel, or exorcising ghosts from your house — take a risk next year.
Scholastic
Get serious about your health.
Whether you start eating better, working out more, or schedule regular visits with a doctor — protect the only body you have by taking proper care of it.
Scholastic
Switch up your style.
Experiment with a new haircut and let the haters get excited!
Scholastic
Help someone in need.
Reach out to a friend who's having a hard time or donate a free weekend to volunteer. Every action you take outside of yourself can change someone else's life.
Scholastic
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
James Patterson Donates $473K To Independent Bookstores
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Christmas came early for 81 lucky indie booksellers.
Deborah Feingold / Reuters
The extra cash comes courtesy of million-selling author and literary patron James Patterson, who announced Monday that he has given $473,000 to 81 independent sellers around the country in the third round of his campaign to keep local stores in business. Since launching the program a year ago, he has given more than $1 million to 178 sellers. The money is dispersed in response to specific requests, such as a letter from Left Bank that said Patterson's donation would allow the store to 'breathe a huge sigh of relief as we invest the money we make selling books back into our community.'
Via abcnews.go.com
Alex Cross by James Patterson
Hachette Book Group
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