When was the last time you heard somebody say: “People are always looking down at their phones” or “My kids are addicted to video games”? Next time you hear something along those lines, ask the person if they would feel differently if the person was always looking down at a book, or was really into chess rather than Call of Duty? Negative stigmas are attached to technology, especially cell phone and your Xbox, but are they really that bad? via GIPHY It may not make sense at first, but video games and books are very similar. Both go to great lengths …
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Today marks J.R.R. Tolkien‘s twelfthty-fifth birthday (125) and people around the world are celebrating with a toast! The Tolkien Society urges all fans to “raise a toast to the Professor.” Go the extra mile and take a picture and post it to social media with the hashtag #TolkienBirthdayToast. The society has even provided a map to where people are meeting up to celebrate the author’s life, which you can see here. Image courtesy of flymagazine Even before the movies adaptations of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings came out, Tolkien had a massive influence on fantasy culture. He successfully brought together many different …
Gaby and Adam’s next bookclub book is the wildly successful Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Adam has committed the cardinal sin of not being up to date with the Harry Potter series, apparently he has only read the first four books. Gaby on the other hand is a real fan who is super excited to get into the 8th book. Keep in mind, if you haven’t read the book yet, it’s actually a script made available in book form. The story of The Cursed Child was created by J.K. Rowling, but was not written by her. Many fans were dissapointed that they …
Last year, five China based publishers and booksellers have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Since then, those in the book industry have been terrified. According to The Guardian, “Bookshops have closed. Publishers have left. Authors have stopped writing. Books have been pulped. Printers are refusing political works. Readers have stopped buying.” The industry itself is being taken over by the “mainland-backed conglomerate (Chung Hwa Book Co) that owns most Hong Kong Bookshops.” Books distributed by this company never allow “forbidden” books to be sold in any of their stores. As of today, the five largest publishers are owned, and controlled, by Chung Hwa …
