Keep these in mind for your next book, Harper Lee.
It was recently announced that Harper Lee will release a sequel to her beloved To Kill A Mockingbird.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
"To Kill A Mockingbird" Author Harper Lee To Release Second Book
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The reclusive author famously only published one novel until now.
To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee is set to release her long-awaited second novel this summer, her publisher confirmed to the Associated Press.
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As the publisher told the AP:
Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that "Go Set a Watchman," a novel the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released July 14. Rediscovered last fall, "Go Set a Watchman" is essentially a sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird," although it was finished earlier. The 304-page book will be Lee's second, and the first new work in more than 50 years.
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Roald Dahl Wrote A Heartbreaking Letter In Support Of Vaccination For Measles
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, February 03, 2015
“It really is almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunised.”
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Measles: A Dangerous Illness
Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything.
"Are you feeling all right?" I asked her.
"I feel all sleepy," she said.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.
On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
It is not yet generally accepted that measles can be a dangerous illness. Believe me, it is. In my opinion parents who now refuse to have their children immunised are putting the lives of those children at risk. In America, where measles immunisation is compulsory, measles like smallpox, has been virtually wiped out.
Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be immunised, we still have a hundred thousand cases of measles every year. Out of those, more than 10,000 will suffer side effects of one kind or another. At least 10,000 will develop ear or chest infections. About 20 will die.
LET THAT SINK IN.
Every year around 20 children will die in Britain from measles.
So what about the risks that your children will run from being immunised?
They are almost non-existent. Listen to this. In a district of around 300,000 people, there will be only one child every 250 years who will develop serious side effects from measles immunisation! That is about a million to one chance. I should think there would be more chance of your child choking to death on a chocolate bar than of becoming seriously ill from a measles immunisation.
So what on earth are you worrying about? It really is almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunised.
The ideal time to have it done is at 13 months, but it is never too late. All school-children who have not yet had a measles immunisation should beg their parents to arrange for them to have one as soon as possible.
Incidentally, I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was 'James and the Giant Peach'. That was when she was still alive. The second was 'The BFG', dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children.
15 Awesome Etsy Gifts For The Bibliophiles In Your Life
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Literary-inspired gifts for people who are obsessed with books.
Deathly Hallows earrings:
Show off that Potterhead pride with these Deathly Hallows earrings from Raggedy Fox Designs.
Via etsy.com
Bookish candles:
This Etsy shop has all sorts of fun, soy candles, with scents like "Old Books," "Oxford Library," "The Shire," and "Wizardy Buttery Drink".
Via etsy.com
Literary refrigerator magnets:
What's more fun than making poems and short stories on your fridge? Using the words of your favorite authors, of course! RefrigeratorProse will satisfy your inner bard with a Shakespeare set or have you feeling like a hobbit from Middle Earth with its Lord of the Rings magnets.
Via etsy.com
Book cover electronics cases:
You've never had a phone case, clutch, or Kindle cover as stylish as these book-based designs from Chick-Lit Designs.
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Monday, February 2, 2015
Here's The Book President Obama Recommends You Read
Posted by Unknown on Monday, February 02, 2015
A book recommendation from the Commander-in-Chief himself.
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Via cnn.com
Over vacation, I read a book of short stories by Phil Klay called Redeployment. And it's a quick but powerful and, for me, painful set of stories about the experience of ordinary soldiers in Iraq. And I think it's a reminder, particularly important for a Commander-in-Chief, that the antiseptic plans and decisions and strategies and opining of pundits that take place in Washington is very different from war and conflict as it's experienced by people on the ground.
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What A "Racebent" Hermione Granger Really Represents
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The beauty of the Harry Potter character as a woman of color.
Growing up, the discovery of Harry Potter was nothing short of a revelation.
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It revolutionized the way I thought about the world, humanity, and myself.
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And like many young girls at the time, I found myself relating quite a lot to the series' most prominent female character.
Hermione wouldn't and couldn't deny her intellect; she was bossy, she had big bushy hair, and she had best friends who loved her even when she was a pain in the ass — and who frequently needed her to save their asses.
She was also a Muggle-born, navigating a world that looked down on her for the situation of her very biology and culture.
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As a biracial girl growing up in a very white city, I found myself especially attaching to the allegory of Harry Potter's blood politics.
In middle school, when I was confronting that there were people out there who'd call me "n****r," I thought back to Hermione being called "mudblood" and harassed by teacher and students alike.
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37 Books To Read To Your Kids, Based On Their Favorite TV Shows
Posted by Unknown on Monday, February 02, 2015
An 11-Year-Old Girl Wrote To DC Comics To Say "Girls Read Comics Too And They Care"
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“I love your comics, but I would love them a whole lot more if there were more girls.”
Dear DC comics,
My name is Rowan and I am 11 years old. I love superheroes and have been reading comics and watching superhero cartoons and movies since I was very young. I'm a girl, and I'm upset because there aren't very many girl superheroes or movies and comics from DC.
For my birthday, I got some of your Justice League Chibis™. I noticed in the little pamphlet that there are only 2 girl chibis, and 10 boys. Also, the background for the girl figures was all pink and purple.
I remember watching Justice League cartoons when I was really young with my dad. There are Superman and Batman movies, but not a Wonder Woman one. You have a Flash TV show, but not a Wonder Woman one. Marvel Comics made a movie about a talking tree and raccoon awesome, but you haven't made a movie with Wonder Woman.
I would really like a Hawkgirl or Catwoman or the girls of the Young Justice TV show action figures please. I love your comics, but I would love them a whole lot more if there were more girls.
I asked a lot of the people I know whether they watched movies or read books or comics where girls were the main characters, they all said yes.
Please do something about this. Girls read comics too and they care.
Sincerely, Rowan
Katy Perry's Halftime Show Was Basically "The Hunger Games"
Posted by Unknown on Monday, February 02, 2015
The odds were ever in her favor!
So by now, you're probably recovering from Katy Perry's EPIC halftime show performance. But it seemed kind of...familiar, didn't it?
Can you put a finger on it?
Getty Images / Christian Petersen
Oh, right. This is The Hunger Games!!!
Lionsgate
So Katy, sorry, Katy-niss Everdeen entered the arena like a TRUE tribute.
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