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
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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?
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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.
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