We all get sucked into the cycle of checking our phone every ten minutes just to see that we have no notifications. But, alas, this leads to us checking Instagram for the fiftieth time to see the same old posts that we purposely didn’t like in the first place. For busy book lovers who struggle with short attention spans, the thought “I should be reading right now” comes into our heads at least a few times a day. Now, an app can tell us just how successful we’d be if if we just listened to those impulses. The …
Stephanie Perkin’s 2017 thriller novel, There’s Someone Inside Your House will be adapted for a Netflix original movie set to begin production this Fall. The story follows a group of high school seniors targeted by a masked figure. Sounding reminiscent to the first season “Black Hood” plot of Riverdale, this new horror will call back to the teen horror genre of the 80’s and 90’s. Students run to escape death as well as their own dark secrets. Actress Sydney Park acting as Makani. | Image via TV Guide Sydney Park, currently starring in Pretty Little Liars: The …
We’ve all been there. You’re struggling in school and dealing with the everyday hardships of being a teenager- friends, relationships and changing bodies. Oh, and you just found out that your dad is Poseidon, the God of the Sea. Casual stuff. Image via The Mary Sue If this doesn’t apply to you, you’re probably not Percy Jackson, the protagonist of the 2005 bestselling young adult fantasy novel, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Rick Riordan’s novel intersects adolescence and Greek mythology in a completely relatable, yet absurd way. The novel was adapted into a movie in …
It comes as no surprise to book lovers that author J.D. Salinger would be adverse to publishing his novels electronically. His personal beliefs come out in his novels. If you even mentioned the idea of reading a book on a computer to Holden Caulfield, he would have had a conniption. Salinger stayed away from the press as his literary fame grew, but was very open about his dislike of books changing during the digital age. However, this week, his son, Matt Salinger announced that his four published novel would in fact be available for the first time in e-book form. …
Our (current) friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, Tom Holland, is not the first member of his family to dream about being in the limelight. His dad, Dominic Holland, is an award-winning English comedian with his own BBC radio show. Despite Dominic’s success, nothing can compete to scoring billions at the box office and playing one of the most iconic characters in comic book history. Image Via The Metro It’s hard to beat Marvel fame standards, so when the Twitter-sphere gained knowledge of Mr. Holland’s 2017 novel about his son’s success, critics were quick to think he envied and even resented …
