Life’s not without a sense of irony it seems. YouTube user Eldermisanthropy22 came home after a long day at school to find his copy of Guide to a Well-Behaved Dog torn up and strewn across the floor. The culprit? His new dog, who seems to be more ill-behaved than well-behaved. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeCLih2FTCo&w=791&h=498] According to Eldermisanthropy22, his dog was not too excited about being cooped up all day without a trip to the park. But don’t worry! In the description to the video, he writes that they went “straight to the park to play and get some wiggles out.” How cute! Well, maybe …
As Britain experiences another confusing chapter in the Brexit farce, David Cameron’s For the Record struggles to attract readers’ attention. Clocking in at an absolutely massive 752 pages, Cameron’s memoir promises a candid look at his time in parliament. It arrives in bookstores at a particularly inopportune moment in British politics, with Brexit dominating the news cycle for the past month or so. Preorder sales have been…less than stellar for For the Record. Image via PA:Press Association Cameron’s memoir languished low on the charts all of last week. In some sense, who can blame readers for not jumping at the …
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Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who originally broke the Weinstein scandal, tell the story of how it all came to light in their new book She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. Now, Harvey Weinstein faces five felony charges connected to his patterns of sexual abuse, as well as various civil suits. But back when Kantor and Twohey began looking into some of the rumors about Weinstein, he was still an immensely powerful presence in Hollywood. The book details how the reporters discovered numerous complaints about inappropriate behavior, under-the-table payoffs to …
Almost two decades ago today, Life of Pi was first published. In honor of the publication anniversary of this international bestseller, we’ve gathered together some of the most insightful quotes from Yann Martel’s smash hit. Come along with us as we relive Pi’s amazing journey! Image via Amazon 1 – It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names. 2 – To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. 3 – If we, citizens, …
