5 Life Lessons We Can Learn from Villains
Villains can oftentimes be the most interesting character in a story. But despite them being horrible, there are a couple of things about them that, if applied to a good cause, we can learn from.
AUTHOR: Camila Fagen
Assigned Reading I Actually Loved (and Some I Didn’t)
Bookstr’s Camilia shares five required readings she loved, and three she didn’t.
Celebrating Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, one of the first African American poets to gain recognition and influence, was born on this day, June 27th, 1872 to freed slaves in Kentucky. Image via NPS As a child he would draw on his parents’ (Joshua and Matilda Murphy Dunbar) lives in the plantations for his writing. By the age of fourteen he had published works in the Dayton Herald. In 1893 he self-published his first poetry collection titled Oak and Ivy, which he paid for by selling a book for a dollar on the elevator he worked as an operator in. Image via …
Netflix Sued Over ‘Enola Holmes’ Film
The new Netflix film Enola Holmes, staring Stranger Things‘ protagonist Millie Bobbie Brown as Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister, has gotten Netflix sued by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Image via looper Netflix wasn’t the only one to get sued over this movie though, as the Conan Doyle Estate has also issued a lawsuit against Nancy Springer, the author of the Enola Holmes books; Random House, the publisher of the novels; and against the Legendary Pictures production company. The Estate claims that the characteristics displayed by Sherlock Holmes (played by Henry Cavill) in this film and …
Has Amazon Changed Our Book-Buying Expectations?
Last week, Frugal Bookstore, a Black-owned independent bookstore in Boston send the following email to their costumers: Images via twitter In short, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the growing sales in books on anti-racism, this bookstore received around twenty thousand orders on the same couple of titles. But because of the time it took them to sort through this inordinate amount of orders, customers started to lose their patience and sending angry emails demanding refunds and calling out their “bad customer service.” These demands are not only ironic, but they also very unrealistic. While this …