Top picks from celebrity book clubs, a new release from Stephen King, and beachy murder mysteries perfect for your summer reading have made this week a great week for book releases. We all know Mondays can be tough, so here’s a list of three books you *need* to read this week, including Stephen King’s The Outsider, Rachel Rhys’s Dangerous Crossing, and Anthony Ray Hinton’s The Sun Does Shine. What? The Outsider by Stephen King Image Via Tor Synopsis: An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. …
Father’s Day is quickly approaching, but you still have plenty of time to get Dad (or other father figures) the perfect book to celebrate them. Here are a list of some our top picks he’ll love. 1. For the Dog Dad via Amazon My Dog: The Paradox is the perfect illustrated explanation of man’s best friend, dogs. From the author of The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman, comes a new comic about his observations of Rambo the dog answering questions like “why do dogs like to chase animals four times their size?” and “why are dogs so excited all the time?”. …
As we’ve covered before, some literary memorabilia sell for thousands and thousands of dollars. In one insane instance, a Hogwarts Acceptance letter from the first Harry Potter film sold for $40,000. The Harry Potter franchise isn’t the first to sell items from the films for insane amounts of cash. Everything from wallets to toilets to ashes of beloved stars have sold for immense amounts of money. Here are a list of some of the most obscure literary relics sold at auction. 1. Charles Dickens’s Toothpick Image Via The Telegraph Engraved with his initials and used on his last visit to …
Dear adored children’s author Jon Klassen, I have purchased the entirety of your Hat series, I Want My Hat Back, We Found a Hat, and This Is Not My Hat for my first cousins. While they may have not enjoyed them as much as I had, I’ll still purchase them for future cousins to come. I first fell in love with your books while working at an independent bookstore in quiet Sunnyvale, California. The associated children’s bookstore next door carried your books, so when I sauntered in looking to expand my literary range, I saw it. The newly published …
So you may or may not remember in the first scene of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone film where Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall wear cool, pointy wizard hats as they walk through Privet Drive. Via Giphy The same hats are spotted again amongst the crowds at Diagon Alley, among teachers at Hogwarts, and most iconically, on the students in the Great Hall at the end of the film where they throw them up in the air. Via Popsugar As one Reddit user said, “They threw them up into the air and forget them.” That’s exactly what happened. …
