The Harry Potter series has touched so many across the globe. Central Michigan University chose to celebrate this global diversity by having a team of students, faculty, and international students turn up on February 22nd to do a multilingual reading of the fifth book, The Order of the Phoenix! Image Via BBR Education From 4:30 PM to 10:30 PM, thirteen languages were celebrated in this multilingual reading at Central Michigan University. The school hopes that the reading will encourage students to study languages other than their first, and the turnout was encouraging! Twenty-three students and faculty actually participated in the reading, but many more showed …
I will freely admit it: I love Benedict Cumberbatch. I am one of those people who finds him to be mega dreamy, and would love for him to come sweep me off my feet in some sort of romantic gesture. I’ve also been the butt of many jokes because of my fondness for the Sherlock actor; I’ve been sent a fair number of memes poking fun at his rather peculiar appearance. And I can admit it. He’s certainly got some interesting features, but I still think he’s the bee’s knees. I recently received one of these memes, and it got me thinking about …
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is making sure that Pennsylvania residents are receiving the most when it comes to the benefits it has to offer. And let me tell you, this library offers its borrowers a lot of perks. Image Via WordPress The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has nineteen different branches spread throughout the city, and, as with most libraries, offers residents a free library card. The free library card isn’t only offered to Pittsburgh residents, but to all Pennsylvania residents. The library’s intention is to be open to everyone, regardless of their circumstances. They believe in a more educated world, and are doing …
In Lincoln, Nebraska a man named James Seacrest has bestowed a vastly extensive and extremely impressive literary collection to be sold at auction in New York this year. Seacrest passed away in 2016, but for decades before that point he had been a newspaper publisher, and a collector of rare and signed books of all varieties and genres. James Seacrest | Image Via North Platte Telegraph Seacrest had dealt heavily in the business of book dealing and collecting. The man was an addict for hard-to-come-by editions of books, and when his home was visited by the Director of Rare Books at …
I didn’t major in English to get paid the big bucks, I majored in it because of how much I love to read. I was already a voracious reader before this point, but while I was in college I was introduced to a new world of literature that I hadn’t known about prior. Some of those books remain some of my favorites to this day, but there are quite a few of them that I didn’t particularly like—ones that I found to be a chore to tread through. 1. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith via GIPHY The Price of Salt …
