Wednesday, June 10, 2015
53 Of The Best Opening Lines In Literature
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, June 10, 2015
“All this happened, more or less.” —Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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2. "The war in Zagreb began over a pack of cigarettes."
—Girl at War by Sara Nović
3. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
—100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
4. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
—Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. "What makes Iago evil? some people ask. I never ask."
—Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
6. "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about, except it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead."
—On the Road by Jack Kerouac
7. "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure."
—The Stranger by Albert Camus
8. "Once upon a time, in a far-off land, I was kidnapped by a gang of fearless yet terrified young men with so much impossible hope beating inside their bodies it burned their very skin and strengthened their will right through their bones."
—An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
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10. "The play—for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crêpe paper—was written in her two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch."
—Atonement by Ian McEwan
11. "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul."
—Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
12. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
—Ulysses by James Joyce
13. "He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters."
—Orlando by Virginia Woolf
14. "Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father. It had been said so often that John, without ever thinking about it, had come to believe it himself."
—Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
15. "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet."
—Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
16. "The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we understood the gravity of our situation."
—The Secret History by Donna Tartt
These Female Writers Want To Stop “Chick Lit” Being Used To Describe Work By Women
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, June 10, 2015
BuzzFeed News spoke to a number of authors about the term after Marian Keyes called it out as pejorative.
Bestselling novelist Marian Keyes recently called the term “chick lit” derogatory and now other female writers are expressing how much they dislike the term.
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Some believe books by women are often sidelined and not taken as seriously as those by men, even when, as with Keyes' work, they address topics as serious as drug addiction, depression, and domestic violence, and sell in vast quantities.
"The term 'chick' can't have been used as a slang word for a female since the 1950s, so it does feel very 'back in your box', without a doubt," bestselling author Mhairi McFarlane told BuzzFeed News.
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What Do You Wish You Could Ask J.K. Rowling?
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, June 10, 2015
But actually, why are Hufflepuffs badgers?
J.K. Rowling is one of those amazing people that everyone wants to ask a billion questions to.
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Maybe you want to know what the deal was with the brains in a tank in the Department of Mysteries.
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Or do you want to know more about other Wizarding schools around the world?
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Or perhaps you just want to know what would have happened if Voldy had succeeded in killing Harry when he was a baby.
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Twitter Had A Lot Of Fun Imagining Jeb Bush In English Class
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, June 10, 2015
The former governor of Florida’s controversial comments in his 1995 book sparked a hypothetical debate on Twitter.
One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Many of these young women and young men look around and see their friends engaged in the same irresponsible conduct. Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior. There was a time when neighbors and communities would frown on out of wedlock births and when public condemnation was enough of a stimulus for one to be careful.
"Infamous shotgun weddings and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter are reminders that public condemnation of irresponsible sexual behavior has strong historical roots."
To All "Game Of Thrones" Book-Readers: The End Is Nigh
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, June 10, 2015
RIP our knowledge. Spoilers for all published A Song of Ice and Fire books.
Look, A Song of Ice and Fire readers who also like Game of Thrones. It's time to give up. We can count and the numbers don't look good.
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The show is going to overtake the books, and it's going to do it next season. The show's already doing it now! We're out of book content, and the showrunners are out of fucks.
I mean sure, we've got some Oldtown stuff to do with Sam and MAYBE the entire Iron Islands plot to get through, but once season 5 wraps up we're toast.
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So let's gird our loins for whatever Season 6 will bring us, and pour one out for those we have lost along the way:
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Farewell, hope of seeing Strong Belwas take a dump on a Meereenese champion.
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Thanks To J.K. Rowling, Dumbledore And Gandalf Got Married This Weekend
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, June 10, 2015
It’s the most magical union in all of the fictional wizarding world. And it all became possible thanks to J.K. Rowling’s twitter domination.
Here's What Happens When You Ask Mamrie Hart To Make You A Drink
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, June 10, 2015
New author and YouTube cutie Mamrie Hart stopped by to teach us how to make five delicious summer cocktails.
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Mamrie Hart, YouTube's cocktail superstar, recently published a book all about her "boozy misadventures."
You Deserve A Drink is chock full of her best drinking stories. Each chapter comes with a corresponding recipe, so it feels a lot like the book version of watching her hilarious videos.
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Mamrie has nearly a million subscribers on YouTube, and it's easy to see why.
Her videos are filled with delightful puns about your favorite celebrities or hot topics; plus, each vid comes with its own drinking game so you can rewatch and play along.
The book is just as entertaining as the channel, with the added perk of getting to know Mamrie a bit more. It has some truly outrageous stories which can serve as either cautionary tales or inspirational advice.
While her language and jokes may get wild, her book and channel are all about accepting who you are without being afraid to poke fun at yourself.
We're Going To Learn More About The American Hogwarts In "Fantastic Beasts"
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, June 10, 2015
J.K. Rowling tweeted about the American Wizarding school that plays a role in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Harry Potter spin-off movie that fans are waiting *very* patiently to see, doesn't hit theaters until November 2016.
The film — which is based on the book written by Rowling — takes place 70 years prior to the Harry Potter story we're already familiar with. It revolves around the story of Newt Scamander, a famous Magizoologist and the author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them which was the required text for the Care of Magical Creatures course at Hogwarts.
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But thanks to J.K. Rowling's Twitter account (aka the gift that keeps on giving), we have a little more insight into the unnamed school of witchcraft and wizardry in America.
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When Harry walks through the camp site at the Quidditch World Cup, he saw American witches from The Salem Witches' Institute. Not to mention, in a 2000 interview someone asked Rowling if Americans could attend Hogwarts. She replied, "No, they have their own school. You'll find out in Book 4. Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Can You Guess The Classic Book From These Emojis?
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, June 09, 2015
Don’t judge an emoji by its cover.
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