Are you a winsome witch or a terrific Tribute?
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
19 Books To Read If You Loved "Paper Towns"
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If you’ve already read everything by John Green.
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Saving June by Hannah Harrington
Why you'll love it: After the devastating death of Harper's older sister, June, Harper and her BFF decide to secretly road trip to California to spread her ashes. But what she doesn't expect is to be accompanied by Jake Tolan, who has a connection to June that Harper wants to crack. If you enjoyed the adventure and the beautiful, lyrical quotes in Paper Towns, you'll surely enjoy Saving June.
Harlequin
Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham
Why you'll love it: On the brink of graduation, three friends decide to embark on a cross country road to see a reunion show of their once favorite band, despite having a fallout in their friendship freshman year. If you enjoyed the strong themes of friendship and quirky characters in Paper Towns, you're sure to devour Reunited.
Simon and Schuster
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Why you'll love it: When Roza goes missing, the people of Bone Gap think she decided to leave on her own accord. But Finn knows that's not the case. He thinks she's been kidnapped — only no one believes him. This is a hauntingly beautiful book that, much like Paper Towns, will engross you with its intriguing plot.
Balzer + Bray
Are These Quotes From "Fifty Shades Of Grey" Or "Twilight"?
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Mr. Cullen will see you now.
The Struggle Of Being Both A Parent And A Writer
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“I can’t decide: Was it a good trade?”
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The books that I can't finish have been stripped of their dust jackets. They lie scattered around the house, the author's name a reproach along the spine. In the bedroom, Haruki Murakami's half-read 1Q84 is the bedrock of a tower of other books — all read, some more than once — that has grown tall in the past year. In the living room, The Kept, by James Scott, one of my former teachers, nestles among tooth-shredded board books and crumpled copies of Highlights magazine; its pages are by far the most pristine on the shelf.
It would be kindest to explain these books, and their cohorts, with a sheepish smile and a carnival barker's sweeping arm: Witness the coffee can of stubby crayons at the dining room table! Step lively — there are Cheerios underfoot! Of course I don't finish books; I have two children, ages 4 and 2.
The truth is less spectacle than private shame: I read a lot, almost as much as I did before I had kids. The first months of my baby's life coincided with another blessed arrival — that of my e-reader — and in his earliest weeks of 24-hour nursing and soothing, I finished 42 books. But I can no longer read books, or write stories, in which terrible things happen to children. As a reader, depictions of child suffering yank me violently from the safe world of narrative and into real, corporeal panic. As a writer, an unwelcome foreboding prevents me from letting my deepest fears pour out onto the page.
I am a better mother for this bargain, more capable of shaking off a parent's day-to-day anxieties without such ugly imagery residing in my head. I am also an incomplete reader and a constricted writer, these once-dominant parts of me now halved and quartered.
I can't decide: Was it a good trade?
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A teacher told me that the key to writing fiction is not to look into your own heart, but to try to see into someone else's. I took it as my credo with no qualms. I had no trauma to reveal, no compelling secrets; where else would I find my subjects if not within others?
Yet even as I squeezed into the minds and bodies of the characters I invented, details from my own life crept in. I began writing fiction at the end of the tumultuous year after my boyfriend's stepfather's death, never realizing how much of the experience was still churning inside me until I turned it loose in my stories. The images snapped to life like a flame: the Orthodox Jewish funeral, where I policed the buffet table to prevent violations of kosher law; the collage of children's art on the kitchen wall, where fifth-grade masterpieces shed crumbling poster paint; the bereft cocker spaniel, who hurled his creaking frame against the bathroom door whenever I closed it behind me.
I knew that I couldn't tell these stories from my own point of view — I was weary, angry, and obsessive over trivialities. So I invented other protagonists and had them examine the situation with something like detachment, finding their own emotions from a different source. I pulled the threads of my own narrative and spooled them out until I could look at the whole experience with a distant, critical eye. My own struggles faded. I was empowered, having rewritten my own story until it was one I could embrace. I got married, to the same boyfriend, and started a graduate program in creative writing.
There, I grew bolder. I took on stories about my fears: secrets kept between husband and wife, jealous siblings who drove a wedge into marriages. I wrote about the shifts and tests of adulthood, efforts to buy a home, succeed at a job, have children. I remember my first story about pregnancy loss: In it, a woman attends a party with all of her friends, a few days after experiencing a miscarriage. Her friends all knew of the pregnancy, but she cannot bring herself to tell them of its end. I remember feeling proud as my character's growing anxiety poured out in paragraphs, leaving me clear-eyed and calm behind the keyboard.
I finished graduate school. I kept working on those stories, revising, polishing, in some cases starting all over again. I sent them out, got them back, and sent them out again.
Then I got pregnant, and a line was drawn, as dark and vivid as the streak of melanin crossing the arc of my belly: Part of the world was off-limits to me now.
Monday, July 27, 2015
35 Brilliant New Books You Should Read This Summer
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Required reading from July to September. UK release dates.
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Jacaranda Books
What Does Your Fandom Say About How You Are In Bed?
Posted by Unknown on Monday, July 27, 2015
Let’s see what your loyalties say about hanky panky time.
15 Drake Book Covers That Should Actually Exist
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Are You There 6 God? It’s Me, Aubrey. Brought to you by BuzzFeed BFF.
Tuesdays with Makonnen
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Are You There 6 God? It's Me, Aubrey.
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The Boy with the Prayer Hands Emoji Tattoo
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Love You Forever Mayne, Ever Mayne
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18 Reasons Pippi Longstocking Was Your Childhood Hero
Posted by Unknown on Monday, July 27, 2015
“I am the sea and nobody owns me.”
First things first: She was the strongest girl in the world.
She could lift up her horse, throw bullies over trees, and fight off pirates.
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And she managed to survive without her parents.
Even though her mum died and her dad worked at sea, Pippi maintained a house all on her own.
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Which was all the more impressive because she didn't go to school.
Pippi spent her childhood at sea, so she didn't have a conventional education. But the way she managed to cope in the real world made you confident that school wasn't all that important anyway.
In fact, Pippi thought that classes at school held her back.
Which, tbh, they did.
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Sunday, July 26, 2015
23 Underrated Books Every Horror Fan Needs To Read ASAP
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, July 26, 2015
You won’t sleep with the lights off ever again.
Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
Why you should read it: This book's got it all: Deep-rooted, devilish fears mixed in with a day at a haunted carnival. Need I say more?
-- Ttorres28
Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
Why you should read it: Auerbach's story is based on a string of creepypasta stories he posted to Reddit. They were so freaky that they turned it into a goddamn novel.
-- Emily McCarthy, Facebook
The Bell Witch: An American Haunting by Brent Monahan
Why you should read it: It's about a witch's vicious spirit that brutally torments a family, and it apparently actually happened.
-- caitlinm18
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Every Kardashian Poops
Posted by Unknown on Saturday, July 25, 2015
Yep.
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Kris poops
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Kourtney poops
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Khloe poops
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