For the love of books
Apart from how iconic Shelly was in the literary way, she had a life full of hardship and crazy moments. For that reason, in the anniversary of her death, we give you 5 facts about Mary Shelly that show how she lived her extremely gothic life.
Virginia Woolf, an English writer considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness narrative, was born on this day in 1882.
We bookworms are, for the most part, creatures of habit. That being said, some of our habits can be strange to onlookers. Here are 7 habits that every bookworm has that are strange to others.
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Amanda Gorman, the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at today’s Presidential inauguration.
Melinda Gates recently announced that she is donating $250,000 to the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The award was created in 2020 and it is the first English language literary award to celebrate excellence in fiction by women writers in the United States and Canada.
