From Aesop to Austen, via Penguin’s Little Black Classics.
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Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed / Penguin
Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed / Penguin
Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed / Penguin
Monday, March 23, 2015
29 Awesome Books With Strong Female Protagonists
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Celebrate National Women’s History Month with these 29 great books.
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Ifemelu is a Nigerian woman who has spent the last 15 years in the United States, achieving academic success and writing a successful blog about racism in America. When her fellowship at Princeton ends, she returns to the newly democratic Nigeria and encounters her first love, Obinze. An epic saga of love and identity, Americanah is an examination of race in American and Nigerian life.
Knopf
Dealing With Dragons (The Enchanted Forest Chronicles series) by Patricia C. Wrede
Dealing With Dragons's Princess Cimorene is everything her father doesn't want her to be: independent, stubborn, and a tomboy. When Cimorene gives up on the lackluster, proper life she is meant to live, she runs away and finds a dragon named Kazul.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
In Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones, 14-year-old Esch discovers she is pregnant in the midst of Hurricane Katrina threatening her family's coastal Mississippi town. Despite the chaos and scarcity of food, Esch struggles to protect her family during the storm in this powerful story of strength and hope against all odds.
Bloomsbury
Which "Hunger Games" District Matches Your Zodiac Sign?
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May the odds be ever in your favor.
Susan Rice And Lots Of Other People Thought Chinua Achebe Died Today
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The acclaimed Nigerian author died on March 21, 2013. But his New York Times obit was widely shared on social media on the two year anniversary of death – leading many to believe he died today .
Chinua Achebe, internationally acclaimed Nigerian author, died on March 21, 2013 and was buried in his hometown of Ogidi that May.
Mike Cohea / AP
But United States National Security Advisor Susan Rice – and many others – fell prey to a social media re-mourning of Achebe, in large part due to the circulation of his New York Times obituary from two years ago.
Rice on Monday said Achebe died and was buried in his native village today – March 23, 2015.
In two now-deleted tweets Rice paid her respects to Achebe calling today "a somber day in Nigeria."
She called Achebe a "a giant of African lit." She added that his works had left "a lasting impression on me and my gen."
Can You Tell If These Children's Books Are Real Or Fake?
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The (weird) library is open.
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Which John Green Novel Are You?
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“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” Like this quiz.
"Insurgent" Is Annoyingly Contradictory
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If this is a franchise about fighting for equality, why is its heroine’s specialness all about the way she was born?
Theo James and Shailene Woodley in Insurgent
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Like most dystopian YA protagonists, Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley), the heroine of the Divergent film franchise, is fighting to save her world.
It's a world that, as outlined out in Veronica Roth's trilogy of books on which the movies are based, is highly regimented but conceptually fuzzy. Everyone has been divvied up into five factions — Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, and Erudite — based on their personality types, but also maybe on biological factors as well? Children are shuffled off for testing to determine their faction/personality type when they turn 16, though they're allowed to pick whichever faction most appeals to them at the big Choosing Ceremony — it's a huge decision, given that factional allegiance takes precedent over family ties. And by the sequel, Insurgent, which is now in theaters, people are able to whip out a scanner to read someone's makeup, which makes you wonder about the point of the whole simulation/ceremony aspect to begin with.
So the faction system, despite helping maintain peace, clearly sucks, placing the surviving members of society into one of five improbable virtuous boxes, with the remnants consigned to the outcast Factionless. Divergent and Insurgent have revolution on their mind, though it bubbles up indirectly, as Tris and her boyfriend Four (Theo James) discover a scheme in which some evil Erudites try to overthrow Abnegation in order to take control of the government. In Insurgent, Tris, now on the run, is initially only focused on revenge, though it's clear there are larger changes in the works. Meeting with Evelyn (Naomi Watts), the Factionless head (and Four's estranged mother), Tris is entreated to help "put an end to a system that says one group is more deserving than another."
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Are You As Well Read As Daria Morgendorffer?
Posted by Unknown on Monday, March 23, 2015
The sardonic teen has been spotted with quite a few books over the years. How many of them have you read?
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