The way we go about reading a book has always been straight forward; we pick our meticulously bonded pieces of paper and simply read. Sometimes this isn’t enough, sometimes we crave more than the traditional experience. Some of the world’s most creative, well, creatives, have taken literary classics and some not so classic and presented them to the public in unique ways. The following list contains some of the coolest, subtle and completely jarring book designs that challenge the generic physical presentation often associated with a “book” for those who are looking for something new… 1. A Heat Sensitive …
Earlier this year, I read Blake Crouch’s novel Dark Matter for the first time. A friend of mine had said it was the best book ever blah blah blah. I’d only heard of Blake Crouch because of the Wayward Pines Trilogy being adapted into a Netflix show. Dark Matter, however, blew my fricking cake hole, to put it politely. I read it in a few nights; the third night was when most of the reading got done. Once the book became something I did not expect, I became a sweaty, hunched over, speed-reading mess. Upon completion, I loaned it to a different …
She beat us to it… Upon completing a diligent google search of the name, “Sally Rooney,” one thing becomes clear: the internet seems to be unsure of whether this Dublin native is twenty-seven or twenty-eight years of age…but also that this woman has a fire inside of her… The type of fire that propels the rocket of a writer’s heart towards truth. In 2015, Rooney wrote an essay entitled “Even If You Beat Me” which pretty much launched her career. She has described the essay as being a little bit too revealing, but I imagine all writers feel this way …
Not only because it stars a Game of Thrones alum… The BBC’s new show Bodyguard hit Netflix in late October. The show stars Richard Madden, AKA Robb Stark from the soon to end HBO show Game of Thrones, as its protagonist. He plays a police sergeant who is assigned to protect the home secretary, played by Keeley Hawes. American audiences typically don’t pay much attention to BBC-related tele. Unless it’s Doctor Who or Peaky Blinders, they roam the illiterate channels that Yankees have become accustomed to (relax, I’m American and kidding). At some point, the people of our fine nation will wake, after a misguided night …
Yeah. Buckle up. Disclaimer: The word love will be used here. Well, it’s finally happening; Nicholas Sparks’ sappy songbird of a novel will be sung loud and proud on stage. The Notebook, which was obviously turned into a game-changing romantic movie of the same name that captured the hearts and soul of angsty romantics everywhere, is going to break and reassemble our hearts once again. A story whose romance rivals that of Kate and Leo in the one and only Titanic will bring dramatic rainy-day monologues back to contemporary pop culture. This article will now be briefly interrupted for an …
