Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Are You More Katniss Or Tris?
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Either way you’ll be a teenage heroine leading a rebellion against a futuristic dystopian government threatening to end everyone you know and love! WIN-WIN!!
How Would You Die In The Wizarding World?
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For neither can live while the other survives.
Which Hogwarts House Do These Celebrities Belong In?
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Would Zayn Malik Slyther-in, would Channing Tatum open your Gryffin-door, or would Oprah Huffle-your-puff?
Celebrities, like all of us, are secret witches and wizards who need to be sorted into the four houses of Hogwarts.
Remember the words of the Sorting Hat to guide you in your decisions:
Gryffindor House is for courageous souls: "Where dwell the brave at heart, their daring, nerve and chivalry set Gryffindors apart."
Slytherin House is for the cunning and ambitious: "Those cunning folks use any means to achieve their ends."
Ravenclaw is a house for the clever, wise, creative, and sometimes strange: "Where those of wit and learning will always find their kind."
Hufflepuff is for those who are kind, loyal, and trustworthy: "Where they are just and loyal, those patient Hufflepuffs are true, and unafraid of toil."
The New Lisbeth Salander Novel Is Called "The Girl In The Spider's Web"
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The fourth book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series hits bookstores August 27.
Earlier this year, it was announced Swedish author David Lagercrantz was working on a fourth Millennium novel. Today the title and cover have been revealed:
The plot of The Girl In The Spider's Web is being kept tightly under wraps at this stage, but both Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist will feature.
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The originally trilogy has sold over 75 million copies worldwide, with 15 million sold in the UK alone.
The series has been adapted for film both in Sweden and the US.
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The Girl In The Spider's Web is the fourth in the series, and the first not to be written by Stieg Larsson, who died in 2004, before the original trilogy was published.
The author of the fourth book, David Lagercrantz (pictured), is best known in the UK for his book I Am Zlatan, a biography of Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimović
Though sanctioned by the Larsson estate, the book has proved controversial, with Larsson's longtime partner Eva Gabrielsson opposing the release.
Gabrielsson and Larsson were not married when he died. As he died without a will, his estate was divided between his father and brother.
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This Avid Reader Makes Gorgeous 3D Art Out Of Abandoned Books
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There’s more than one way to enjoy a book.
Artist Isobelle Ouzman makes intricate 3D art, rescuing abandoned or unloved books and transforming them into something beautiful.
She uses old ones friends give her and abandoned works she finds while walking around Seattle.
"These are books nobody wants and books that are kind of falling apart," Ouzman told BuzzFeed News. "I’m fixing them. Otherwise they would just be in a landfill somewhere."
She's done 10 pieces since starting about a year ago, using glue, an X-Acto knife, fine-point pens, and watercolors.
On top of her day job working in a print shop, each book takes her about two months to transform.
The 22-year-old describes herself as shy and said that as a kid, books were her escape.
"I just kind of withdrew and read a lot of books," she said, explaining her personal attachment to them. "When I see a book thrown away that way, it kind of does something to me."
What New Book Should You Read This Spring?
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Spring into reading a new book.
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18 Facts About Mo'ne Davis That Will Make You Love Her Even More
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We already know the 13-year-old is a phenomenal athlete, but there’s more to Mo’ne than baseball and basketball.
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"What's your favorite Disney channel movie?"
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"Do you have another favorite Disney movie?"
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"Who's your favorite baseball player?"
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What It's Like To Meet Your Favorite Author
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A once-in-a-lifetime chance to talk with the writer you most admire.
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Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist with eight books published since 1982, and he is my favorite author.
The idea of having a "favorite" anything is silently frowned upon the older we get, or, at least, it's less acknowledged. Children have favorites — candy, movies, songs, characters, friends, school subjects — but as adults, we're rewarded for showcasing a fluid set of preferences, for being selective based upon our audience, and for resisting the urge to publicly express intense emotion over things we enjoy. I'm unconvinced that the call of fandom is inherently a childish one, but even if it is — so what? Who am I to deny access to the kind of unfettered joy that only rears its head during childhood? All of this to say, I had the rare opportunity recently to meet Kazuo Ishiguro, and it was fantastic.
The official start of the line, which had already begun to form before 11:30.
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Mr. Ishiguro was signing copies of his latest novel, The Buried Giant (Knopf, 2015), at The Strand Bookstore in New York City on March 19. Since I've lived my whole life in the Northeast, and Ishiguro has resided in England for decades, I never imagined I'd have the chance to meet him, and so promised myself I'd attend the signing event no matter what.
Mr. Ishiguro is best known for his novels The Remains of the Day, which won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989, and Never Let Me Go, which Time magazine deemed the Best Novel of 2005, and though I adore both books, it's Ishiguro's fourth novel, The Unconsoled, which holds a special place in my heart. The Unconsoled is a sprawling, first-person tale of faulty memory, mounting pressure, half-revealed pasts, ulterior motives, and the causes and consequences of familial pride and shame. It is a weird book, written like a tightly plotted dream, with a narrator who doesn't seem to notice the unusual behaviors and high expectations of the citizens of an unnamed European city facing crisis.
Of any of the dozens of things I wished to tell Mr. Ishiguro — that I also wrote fiction, and considered him an inspiration; that I had read everything he'd ever published; that I was so thankful his books explored the topic of memory — it was The Unconsoled that I needed to mention, and my love of it specifically, in the brief moment I had while he signed my books.
Monday, March 30, 2015
11 Books To Read If You Want People To Know You're An Asshole
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A Sociopath’s Guide To Dating is apparently a real book.
For the subtle Christian Greys of the world.
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At least it's honest about "the exploitation of women"?
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"Benny Bastard" - seems legit.
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"And deception..." Nope, sounds like totally normal light reading!
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Which Bennet Sister Are You?
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Find out where you fit in the Pride and Prejudice family.
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27 Books That Sparked Your Literary Awakening
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“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” —Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us what book made them fall in love with reading. Here are their inspiring results.
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The Giver by Lois Lowry
It really exposed me to how books can transport you to different worlds and make you feel something for fictional people.
Submitted by taylornaylor
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
It was the first book I read in one sitting, and that was the day I decided to add English as a second major.
Submitted by michaelm169
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
It helped me realize other people are shy, love will hurt you, and true friends are where it's at.
Submitted by amandaa492b1bc35
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Which Deceased Secondary "Harry Potter" Character Are You?
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Are you more Barty Crouch Sr. or Bathilda Bagshot?
Sunday, March 29, 2015
The Hardest Game Ever Of "Harry Potter" Would You Rather
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Which Hogwarts Professor Is Your Soulmate?
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Hagrid, Snape, or McGonagall?
35 Books You Need To Read In Your Twenties
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From Cheryl Strayed’s Wild to Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, these are the books you need to get through your own roaring twenties.
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19 Reasons Everyone Should Want To Be A Hufflepuff
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, March 29, 2015
Why would you want to be a show-offy Gryffindor or a snobby Ravenclaw when you could be a super chill Hufflepuff and a decent human being?
Saturday, March 28, 2015
21 "Harry Potter" Bookmarks You Won't Be Able To Resist
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The Cover Of Jonathan Franzen's New Book Looks A Lot Like This Painting Of A German Terrorist
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Purity will be released on Sept. 1, 2015, but looks a lot like October 18, 1977.
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Friday, March 27, 2015
How Good At Quidditch Would You Be?
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Have you got the quaffles to compete?
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My 8 Most Important Memories As A Book Lover
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Keep reading.
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When I was 8 years old, my mother and I left our home in inner-city Boston and moved to a rural town in the middle of Northern Massachusetts. I was a city kid who had grown up in a rough neighborhood, used to seeing blood on sidewalks, not fields that stretched for miles. My father did not come with us. I missed him the way you miss something you don't know is missing, which is to say I didn't know why he was gone. I could feel the trouble but I couldn't put words to it. My mother worked and slept and cried and I was left to myself, using my imagination to fill up the great space that now surrounded us. I don't know if I spoke to my father of my loneliness, but I will never forget the first package he sent me. It felt odd to get mail from him, when he used to sleep in the room right next to mine, which was the room he still slept in — I was the one who had moved miles and towns and worlds away. If the package contained a note I do not remember it. All I remember is holding the cassette. On its label, in my father's handwriting: "Book One of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." Below that was simply: "The Beginning." I had an old tape recorder and a pair of hastily repaired headphones and that year my father read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy to me, despite the fact that he was nowhere close to me at all.
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Eventually, my father moved back in with us — joining us in our rural life, where we used a wood stove to heat our drafty house and placed warm bricks in our beds. Still, my mother didn't stop crying. Our once empty-feeling place was now loud with my parent's yelling, as they did their best to patch their lives back together. I spent lots of time going exploring on my bike, no longer forced to stay within eyeshot of my house, as I had been in Boston. In the center of town I became friends with an old man whose one leg was shorter than the other. He was a retired minister who played piano and lived in a house overflowing with books. I'm not sure why he pegged me as someone who would enjoy Stephen King. Maybe it was because he could tell I was having a hard time at home. Maybe it was because he'd seen me sneak behind the town hall to smoke cigarettes. Maybe it's because it's impossible to be young and not love Stephen King. Either way, he said, "I think you'll like this," as he handed me The Stand. I devoured it immediately. There's no escape from reality like being terrified of something imaginary. When I brought The Stand back next week, the minister took every Stephen King book he had and piled them into a giant cardboard box, which I tied to my bike before riding home, careful not to lose my balance.
27 Insanely Clever Ways To Display Your Books
Posted by Unknown on Friday, March 27, 2015
You can only stack so many on your nightstand.
Weigh your reading options with a scale shelf.
Buy it on Etsy
Convert an old refrigerator into a book safe.
Learn how here.
Make your shelf your "to read" list.
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This picture is worth way more than a thousand words.
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How Well Do You Know John Green?
Posted by Unknown on Friday, March 27, 2015
The author behind beloved books Paper Towns and The Fault In Our Stars dishes about everything from the song he sings in the shower to his favorite sports team.
This Is The Future Of Architecture In 8 Ingenious Buildings
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The future is now, people!
After his groundbreaking Ted Talk on 30 years of architectural history, he's now released a new book, The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings , which brings together 100 of today's most radical designs for a new tomorrow.
Rather than moving from style to style, architecture is entering an age of wild experimentation and a return to hyper-local solutions. Every selfie that someone snaps in front of a building, every comment someone makes about a place widens the dialogue around architecture. My hope is that the public starts looking around them critically. Asking 'why are we building buildings the way we always have!? There has to be a better way!'
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
Here's The Cover Of The Fully Illustrated Edition Of "Harry Potter"
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, March 26, 2015
Scholastic and Bloomsbury have released the cover of the upcoming fully illustrated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Scholastic and Bloomsbury, the U.S. and U.K. publishers of the Harry Potter series, today released the cover image of the upcoming fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone:
Jacket art by Jim Kay © 2015 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Illustrated by award-winning artist, Jim Kay, the cover is an image of Harry Potter on Platform 9 ¾ surrounded by witches and wizards, trunks and owls, about to board the Hogwarts Express for the first time and is available for download at http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/harrypotter.
Previously, Scholastic released four full-color images from the book, which will have over a hundred full-color illustrations:
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Can We Guess What Your Reading Habits Say About Your Love Life?
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, March 26, 2015
Can we read you like an open book?
Are You More Gryffindor Or Slytherin?
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10 points to you for taking this quiz!
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21 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Your Kindle
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F-READ-OM.
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Here's a list of the over 8,000 ebook titles you can read for free. Project Gutenberg is another great resource for free, downloadable ebooks.
Pixel of Ink and Centsless Books feature ebooks that are free or sold at a deep discount for a limited time. Open Library is a site where you can borrow or read over 1 million titles.
36 Of The Most Beautiful Words In The Philippine Language
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, March 26, 2015
Just a little something to add to your kinaadman.
"Kilig"
Filipino. Via Devyn Lyn Parsons.
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"Timpi"
Filipino.
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"Tinatangi"
Filipino. Via Hazel Ann Rias.
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