For the love of books
If there’s anything we love more than books, it’s books-within-books! While most books-within-books never get the full-length treatment they deserve, we readers can still dream…take this quiz to find out which fictional read fits you best! Featured image courtesy of the Fault in Our Stars Wiki
Getting fired from his post as Director of the F.B.I. may have been the best thing ever to happen James Comey—financially, that is. Numerous sources have stated that Comey—whose dramatic testimony on his interactions with President Trump before the Senate Intelligence Committee made waves last week—was offered $10 million by a major New York publisher to write a book covering his entire life, from childhood to his fateful decisions surrounding Hilary Clinton’s e-mail woes and the oval office meetings that led up to his firing. Image courtesy of Talking Points Memo In addition to Comey’s recent dealings …
No work of art is made in a vaccum, and every artist starts out as an admirer of other artists. This is especially true of writers, who often turn to great works of the past in order to speak about their particular moment. These 6 writers took past ideas in such original directions that you may not know just where they received that special spark of inspiration—but now you will. 1. On Beauty by Zadie Smith/ Howard’s End by E.M. Forster Zadie Smith’s 2005 novel about squabbling academic families on both sides of the pond shares several significant …
No work of art is made in a vaccum, and every artist starts out as an admirer of other artists. This is especially true of writers, who often turn to great works of the past in order to speak about their particular moment. These 6 writers took past ideas in such original directions that you may not know just where they received that special spark of inspiration—but now you will. 1. On Beauty by Zadie Smith/ Howard’s End by E.M. Forster Zadie Smith’s 2005 novel about squabbling academic families on both sides of the pond shares several significant …
There are many lessons to be learned from Suzanne Collins Hunger Games trilogy: The ravages of inequality, for example, or the dangers of a government with too much control over citizens’ lives. But Megan Gething learned more from the Hunger Games than that. Amazingly, the Gloucester, MA teen learned a first aid technique through the book that would ultimately play a role in saving the life of a good friend. Image courtesy of https://bit.ly/2sVh6mq Megan, 12, was playing with a group of friends outdoors when one of them, Mackenzie George, fell and badly cut her calf. An ambulance …
