Because you can never have too many books.
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At this aptly named gem, all the books face out from the shelves so you can digest their covers and gobble them up as you please.
Jenna Guillaume / BuzzFeed
Jenna Guillaume / BuzzFeed
Just A Few Modern Classics.
What It's About: In the Marvel Ultimate Universe, Peter Parker is dead. Miles Morales takes over the Spider-mantle in one of the best superhero origin stories ever told.
Why You Should Read It: REMEMBER WHEN DONALD GLOVER WANTED TO BE SPIDER-MAN AND HOW AWESOME THAT WOULD'VE BEEN!?
Marvel / Via thebendisageofcomics.tumblr.com
What It's About: Queer teen superheroes saving the multiverse from the world's worst mother and instagramming the whole thing along the way.
Why You Should Read It: Jamie McKelvie is your new comic book artist crush and every character he draws is your new comic book character crush. Also, Noh-Varr's abs.
Marvel / Via goodcomics.comicbookresources.com
What It's About: Heavily influenced by Heath Ledger's Joker performance, this crime-noir comic shows The Joker being released from Arkham Asylum and seeking revenge on former co-horts like The Penguin, Two-Face, and The Riddler.
Why You Should Read It: The Joker has never been more terrifying.
DC Comics / Via blog.thelondonvandal.com
What It's About: The first new mutant baby is born since M-day. The race is on to find her before Mr. Sinister and nearly every other X-Men villain can find her first. This story sets the stage for a lot of the current X-Men runs.
Why You Should Read It: Lady Deathstrike and X-23 is the fight you didn't know you needed to see. AND IT'S ALL THE X-MEN FIGHTING TOGETHER SO LIKE...
Marvel / Via buzzcomics.net
Spoilers, obviously.
HBO
Death abounds on HBO's Game of Thrones — just ask Jack Gleeson (Joffrey), Rory McCann (The Hound), Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister), Sibel Kekilli (Shae), or Rose Leslie (Ygritte). But each of those actors knew their characters' fates upon landing their respective roles, since George R.R. Martin had previously killed them in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels upon which the show is based.
So what happens when Game of Thrones executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss decide the show no longer needs a character that still exists in Martin's books?
Turns out, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who played Jojen Reed (until he was killed in the Season 4 finale), was just as surprised as fans to learn about his character's fate.
"I found out on the plane flying over to film Season 4," the actor revealed to BuzzFeed during an interview for his new movie, The Maze Runner. "It happens in the last episode, so I was reading all the scripts and I got to the page where it says, 'Jojen gets stabbed repeatedly in the stomach.' I thought, That's OK. I'll be fine because no one's told me yet and I'm not dead in the books. I'll be fine.
"So I keep reading and see, 'Meera comes over and slits his throat.' Then I thought, Well, I'm amongst all these White Walkers. Maybe the plan is to turn me into a White Walker — that would be really, really cool. Then, that little girl comes out, throws a Molotov cocktail, and I burst into flames. That's when I knew I was definitely, definitely dead. Dead. Properly dead."
HBO
The new YA adaptation starring Chloë Grace Moretz may ruin you, but not in the way the filmmakers intended. Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD!
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1. Movies about pretty teenagers dying are so hot right now, and If I Stay is no The Fault In Our Stars. The latter is sardonic and more raw, and about what it's like to grow up in the shadow of death. The former is gauzy and a touch supernatural, with heroine Mia Hall (Chloë Grace Moretz) spending most of the movie's runtime wandering around a hospital as a Coma Ghost after a terrible car crash that claims her family members' lives, trying to determine if, per the title, she should pick life or go into the light. The latter is about a girl who's living with cancer, and the former is about a girl whose biggest stressor, until the accident, was being caught between studying cello at Juilliard or staying in Portland with her dreamy, rock star boyfriend Adam Wilde (Jamie Blackley).
2. But of course, If I Stay is an effort to capitalize on the same audience as TFIOS, even if they diverge in their approaches to extracting tears. If I Stay is also adapted from a best-selling YA novel, this one by Gayle Forman, and if it isn't technically "sick-lit," it does aim for the same weepy sweet spot of young people having to wrestle with mortality before they've had much of a chance to live. It, too, is built around a swoony romance between Adam, the slightly older cool kid, who sweetly but persistently woos Mia after falling for her cello playing. The movie, which was written by Shauna Cross (Whip It) and directed by R.J. Cutler (The September Issue), doesn't come packing an equivalent to "'OK?' 'OK'" — but that's not for lack of effort.
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