Imagine waking up in Cairo on January 25th of 2011. Trying to call your loved ones, but to no avail. Trying to turn on your lights, but to no avail. Turning on your television, and witnessing the people of your country violently turning on the government in the historical site Tahrir Square. In light of the low wages, corruption, lack of freedom of speech, and police brutality that plagued the nation, millions of protesters from various social, economic, and religious backgrounds demanded the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Violent interactions between the police and the protesters resulted in almost 1,000 …
Faber is set to publish Eimear McBride’s next novel Strange Hotel, according to The Book Seller. McBride is also the author of award winning novels A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, and The Lesser Bohemians. Image Via Wikipedia “A nameless woman enters a non-descript hotel room she’s been in once before, many years ago” the synopsis reads. “Though the room hasn’t changed, she has, as have the dimensions of her life. As she goes on to occupy a series of hotel rooms around the world — each of which reflects back some aspect of herself we begin to piece together the details …
Judith Krantz, most famous for writing bestselling novels such as Princess Daisy and Till We Meet Again has passed away in her Los Angeles home due to natural causes at the age of ninety, on June 22nd. She was surrounded by her family and friends, according to her publicist. Krantz was born in 1928 in New York City to a Jewish family. According to the Boston Globe, at age sixteen she graduated from high school and enrolled in Wellesley College with three goals in mind: to date, to read every novel in the library, and to graduate. She also told the Boston …
With the premiere less than two weeks away, Netflix released a new trailer on Thursday for season three of Stranger Things. Based on the trailer, the show still maintains its creepy and uneasy atmosphere. Netflix released a description to introduce audiences to the upcoming season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcnHOQ-cHa0 It’s 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana, and summer’s heating up. School’s out, there’s a brand new mall in town, and the Hawkins crew are on the cusp of adulthood. Romance blossoms and complicates the group’s dynamic, and they’ll have to figure out how to grow up without growing apart. Meanwhile, danger looms. When the …
The Adventures of Tintin is best known as a series of family friendly graphic novels. Hergé, the author of the books, has made them enjoyable for both kids and adults, as they incorporate topics appealing to both older and younger audiences. However, the first few books in the series were known to be quite political and controversial, as opposed to the later entries. There was one book which erupted with negative criticism, however, and caused a lot of trouble for Hergé. Image Via Alistgator Tintin in the Congo was published in 1931, and many campaigners and writers described the …
