Ring in the new year with these new reads. *Ranked in no particular order*
Jarry Lee / BuzzFeed
Get In Trouble
Random House
Kelly Link
Sharona Jacobs Photography
Thursday, January 8, 2015
16 "Mr Men" That Sum Up Modern Britain
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, January 08, 2015
If the adventures of Mr. Dick Pic don’t become a thing after this there truly is no justice.
Robin Edds / BuzzFeed / Via penguin.com.au
Robin Edds / BuzzFeed / Via penguin.com.au
Robin Edds / BuzzFeed / Via penguin.com.au
Robin Edds / BuzzFeed / Via penguin.com.au
23 Coloring Books That Would Ruin Your Childhood
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, January 08, 2015
Your crayons will be horrified. Slightly NSFW.
Sex Position Coloring Book: Playtime For Couples
Because there's nothing more arousing than whipping out some crayons along with your dick.
Dinosaurs Smoking Weed
The plot to the next Jurassic Park movie?
Colour Me Good - ARRGGGHHHH!!
Because coloring books obviously aren't fulfilling their duties if they're not making you scream in horror.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Salman Rushdie Issues Statement Against Terrorist Attack In Paris
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, January 07, 2015
“Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.”
AP John Bazemore
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
Haruki Murakami Wants To Give You Some Advice
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Murakami is here for you.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PETR DAVID JOSEK
The website, named 'Murakami-san no tokoro' or 'Mr. Murakami's place' will solicit problems from fans of the surrealist, whose novels are published in dozens of languages around the world.
The publicity-shy writer will pen answers to queries, offering his opinions and advice on how to tackle all manner of difficulties, said Shinchosha Publishing.
Via theguardian.com
5 Great Books To Read In January
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, January 07, 2015
A roundup of recent favorites we’ve reviewed in the BuzzFeed Books newsletter.
Chris Ritter / BuzzFeed
Knopf
Louis Kapeleris
Joan Didion Is The New Face Of Céline And It's The Best Thing Ever
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Just playing it as it lays, NBD.
This is Joan Didion, author of Goodbye to All That, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, The Year of Magical Thinking, and a slew of other fantastic books and essays.
Read them all. Really.
The LIFE Images Collection / Getty Julian Wasser
She's also basically the original Cool Girl.
Those sunglasses! That searing gaze!
The LIFE Images Collection / Getty Julian Wasser
The one-time Vogue editor honed her classic look as a reporter in the '60s and '70s.
It's also when she famously developed her simple but ridiculously effective packing list, which she catalogued in her collection of essays, The White Album.
"Two skirts, two jerseys or leotards, one pullover sweater, two pair shoes, stockings, bra, nightgown, robe, slippers, cigarettes, bourbon. Bag with: shampoo, toothbrush and paste. Basis soap, razor, deodorant, aspirin. prescriptions, Tampax, face cream, powder, baby oil."
That's it.
John Bryson/The LIFE Images Collection / Getty Images
Which is why it totally makes sense that she was named the newest face of luxury French brand Céline.
Yaaaaaaas!
Courtesy of Céline
25 Snapchats From Hogwarts Professors
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Everyday I’m Dumblin’.
Warner Bros. / Colin Heasley for BuzzFeed
Warner Bros. / Colin Heasley for BuzzFeed
Warner Bros. / Colin Heasley for BuzzFeed
Warner Bros. / Colin Heasley
Someone Has Vandalized Mark Twain's Grave
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, January 07, 2015
There are currently no leads into the disappearance of Mark Twain’s plaque from Woodlawn Cemetery.
The Mark Twain House & Museum
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Signet Classics
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
What It Meant To See My Depression Reflected In A YA Book
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, January 06, 2015
How Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places gets mental illness right.
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed
My depression is constant but mutable: here a sustained melancholy, there a waking anxiety, now a sharp pang of doubt. In recent years, it has manifested as a recurring suspicion — quiet at first, but eventually needling its way into the forefront of my mind — that the life I'm living is false. It spreads like a tear in the fabric of my reality, offering glimpses of what it insists is the truth beneath it, full of chaos, panic, and utter ineptitude. It's a secret that I'm finally in on, a higher level of understanding; I'm at once doomed and freed; the world is dark but at least my eyes are open in it; I'm just as bad as I feared. Then it passes.
This depression is mine; others' belong to them. Their lows, their coping mechanisms, their definitions of recovery, and their paths to or through it, would be as foreign to mine as any other ailment. And since the most visible stories of depression focus more on redemption — usually in the form of some strong will, a pill, that person who finally gets you — than on the struggle, the surest conviction held by the depressed person is the singularity of her experience of it. All of this to say I did not expect to find my own depression narrated back to me in a YA novel about two high-schoolers in love.
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed
"Is today a good day to die?" wonders Theodore Finch in the very first line of All the Bright Places, Jennifer Niven's remarkable YA debut. The teenage outcast is standing on the ledge of his school's bell tower, weighing the pros and cons of ending it all. The scene doesn't feel especially dramatic or urgent; if anything, it's alarming in its mundanity. He considers the question evenhandedly until he spots Violet Markey — a popular girl still reeling from the death of her sister — who is apparently wondering the same thing.
The pair make it down together safely, if a little embarrassed, but quickly realize their connection lingers. What follows is a roller coaster ride of a romance, not without its flaws (Finch's behavior borders uncomfortably on stalking at times) but impressively layered, lived-in, and real. Violet is a strong and inspiring protagonist, relocating her passion after family tragedy sapped her dry, but it's Finch who continues to stick with me.
Though she never explicitly names it, Niven's portrayal of manic depression, and teenage depression in particular, is deliberate and unsanitized. Finch's first-person narration (which alternates with Violet's) is an authentic presentation of living in the thick of depression — not fighting it, not recovering from it, just living it — and it's best when it makes the reader uncomfortable. Finch pulls no punches when he jokes with his guidance counselor about who will be the first to know when he goes, and neither does Niven, as she forces us to confront the myriad reasons a human being, not a caricature of one, considers suicide.
We meet Finch on day six of being "awake," a condition that he defines by its opposite — the spells of days or weeks he describes as being "asleep" or "down" — and that he is desperate to maintain. He stockpiles days of clarity as if to fortify his happiness, but the "sleep" rears its head from time to time. Consider his narration on a particularly bad day:
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