Thursday, April 30, 2015

23 Times Tumblr Had Jokes About "Game Of Thrones"

The internet is a beautiful place. This fitting card. This truth about Sansa. This confession from Tywin Lannister. These television show mashups. View Entire List ...

19 Times Tumblr Perfectly Described The Struggle For Book Lovers

“Aren’t ordinary people adorable?” When your bookshelf is more put together than you. readingdidyoumeanbreathing.tumblr.com Or when it's not. sofiaisthere.tumblr.com When your e-reader turns on you. cinephilesinc.tumblr.com When you can't even save your own bank account. antstepsbooks.tumblr.com View Entire List ...

18 Faces Every Book Lover Will Recognize

“My favorite book? How much time do you have?” When that babe you've been flirting with casually mentions how much they love your favorite book. sedeferdogdu1d.tumblr.com When that babe you've been flirting with tells you they don't like to read. Focus Features When someone asks you to pick a favorite book. ABC When you get on the bus or train and realize you left your...
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Which "Game Of Thrones" Character Matches Your Zodiac Sign?

Find out who you are in Westeros...

5 Great Books To Read In May

A roundup of recent favorites we’ve reviewed in the BuzzFeed Books newsletter. Maritsa Patrinos / BuzzFeed Plume Jeff Zorabedian View Entire List ...

27 Inspiring Pieces Of Advice For Writers

“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.” Suggested by Kori H., Facebook / Via Picture by Moyan Brenn on Flickr 2. "You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say." —F. Scott Fitzgerald Suggested by Allison E., Facebook 3. "The art of writing is the art of applying the...

29 Ridiculously Wonderful New Books To Read With Kids

Picture books guaranteed to make both children and adults excited for story time. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed Vegetables in Underwear by Jared Chapman Vegetables on their own = sometimes cute. Vegetables with faces = very cute. Vegetables wearing underwear = completely and utterly adorable. What kind of reader is it for? Anyone who wants to "celebrate the universal joy of undies"...

Who Said It: Holden Caulfield Or Someone On Tumblr?

Phony versus phony. Daniel Dalton / Sian Butcher / BuzzFee...

The Marvel Universe Is Ending And Here's What You Should Know

The Marvel Universe we’ve known since 1962 will be destroyed in this summer’s huge Secret Wars event, and will be recreated later this year. Here’s how that came to be, including MASSIVE SPOILERS for some of the best Marvel comics in years. Secret Wars is Marvel Comics' huge event for the summer of 2015. The company does "events" all the time, but this one is much bigger...

The ABCs Of "Harry Potter"

T is for THE BURROW DIDNT HAVE TO BURN DOWN YOU SADISTIC SCREENWRITERS. A is for Albus The man that we put our complete and utter trust in. Even though it turned out he was keeping literally everything from us. Warner Bros. B is for the Burrow WHICH DID NOT NEED TO BE SET ON FIRE. Warner Bros. C is for Celestina Warbeck Because, let's be real, we all want to jam out to...

26 Faces Every Bookseller Will Recognise

“Where do you keep your non-fiction?” :| The “someone just flung something from biography in the middle of my perfect 3-for-2 pyramid” face. Giphy / Via giphy.com The “customer put my face-out back on the shelf face-in” face. Giphy / Via giphy.com The “been put on the quiet till near poetry” face. the-baobab-tree / Via the-baobab-tree.deviantart.com The “do you stock Gone...

You Can Actually Attend The School Of Wizardry Now

Get your wands ready. Claus Raasted, Liveform, and Rollespils Fabrikken have made it possible to have a full-on wizarding experience at a CASTLE IN POLAND. vimeo.com Their LARP (Live Action Role Playing) Indiegogo campaign has already raised nearly 300% of it's goal for the four-day event. That means WIZARDRY ABOUNDS. indiegogo.com "Students" are sorted into one of five...

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Can You Guess The “Harry Potter” Character By These Emojis?

Do You-Know-Who? Warning: spoilers...

14 Sweary Versions Of Classic Children's Books

Goodbye childhood, hello juvenile humour. Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed View Entire List ...

14 Photos Of British Politicians Improved By "Game Of Thrones" Quotes

When you play the game of elections, you win or you die. Channel 4 ITV / Handout Stefan Rousseau / Getty Images Stefan Rousseau / PA WIRE View Entire List ...

21 Hilarious Tumblr Moments That Sum Up Poetry

This post will bring you so much Joy-ce. When it made Keats' work hip and relatable to the youths. When it called Microsoft Word out on its UTTER BULLSHIT. When it elaborated on everyone's favorite rhyme. When it accurately summed up a poet's stylistic evolution. View Entire List ...

Victorian Slang Terms That Need To Make A Comeback

Time to tickle your innards and celebrate the royal baby’s birth. youtube.com / Via BuzzFeedVide...

26 Books From Around The World To Read Before You Die

Next stop: your local bookstore. Sarah Galo / BuzzFeed Thorndike Press View Entire List ...

13 Reviews Of Hogwarts' Most Influential Professors

Who gets the chili pepper? Professor Severus Snape Professor in the Potions department Warner Bros. ratemyprofessors.com ratemyprofessors.com Professor Minerva McGonagall Professor in the Transfiguration department Warner Bros. View Entire List ...

Can You Guess Who Invented These Everyday Words?

Sir Thomas who now? We all know Shakespeare had a knack with words, but you've likely never heard of Sir Thomas Browne, a prolific and highly influential 17th Century doctor and author who was no slouch in the etymology department. According to a new book, The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century, Browne was "one of the most prolific wordsmiths in the English...

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Bookstores in Moscow removed Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Maus in fear of police raids searching for Nazi symbols. The book, an allegory for the rise of Nazism, has a swastika on the cover. Bookstore owners in Moscow quietly removed Art Spiegelman's Maus, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, from shelves in recent days, the book's Russian publisher told AFP. Employees at several...

Can You Match The Classic Science Book To The One-Star Amazon Review?

“I felt as if my brain was in an atom smasher reading this book....

Sequels To Famous Poems

Just like blockbuster movies, great poems often get their own sequels. "The Road Not Taken, Part II" - Robert Frost Lorenzot81 / Getty Images "Because I could not stop for Death again" NA / Via en.wikipedia.org "Another Ode on a Grecian Urn" Jastrow / Via en.wikipedia.org "Harlem: The Sequel" Flickr: pingnews / Via Jack Delano View Entire List ...