“Game of Thrones” is one of the strongest, if not the strongest show on TV. Now into its seventh season, it continues to win fans and influence people. We take a look at the ways it has subverted expectation and become the biggest game changer in TV history! 1. Its cast is constantly changing. In other long running TV shows, you can rely on the main cast coming back to greet you week after week with little fear of any of them being suddenly and brutally murdered. Things are a little different in Westeros. The first series set up …
Who says you can’t make money selling books? Yesterday the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, briefly overtook Bill Gates to become the world’s richest person! The leap occurred after a rise in the share price of Amazon ahead of its latest results due Thursday night. It may bring hope to some to learn that Bezos began by selling books out of garage in Seattle in 1994. Image Courtesy of Guardian The rise pushed Bezos’s fortune to $91 billion, compared with Gates’ $90 billion. But the Amazon share price fell back leaving Gates on top, but with less than $1 billion separating …
Irish author and famous feminist Louise O’Neill has announced that her new book will be a retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s classic tale “The Little Mermaid,” seen through a searing feminist lens. The book, entitled “The Surface Breaks,” will be published in the UK in May 2018, with the US publication date still to be announced. The story takes place beneath the sea off the Irish coast and centers around a mermaid, Gaia, who dreams of being human. Image Courtesy of Independent A spokesperson for the publisher, Scholastic, said that in the book “Christian Andersen’s dark, original fairy tale is reimagined…with the stunning, …
The longlist for the Man Booker Prize is here with some big names, including Zadie Smith, Arundhati Roy, and Paul Auster. We look back at some of our favorite nominees from the past five years. 2012 “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” by Rachel Joyce Image Courtesy of Amazon Joyce’s novel made the long-list this time five years ago, and is the charming tale of an elderly gentleman, Harold Fry, and the journey he somewhat unwittingly embarks on in order to visit a dying friend. The book won the National Book Award in the UK for New Writer of …
Heather Cabot stopped by the Bookstr offices to chat about her new book “Geek Girl Rising: The Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech,” all about the female entrepreneurs, investors, and activists paving the way for women in technology. Cabot and her writing partner Samantha Walravens have written “Geek Girl Rising” in order to tell the stories of some of the female entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders, technologists, and educators making waves in the tech industry. They aim to show how these women got to where they are, and to make the idea of working in tech more accessible to those for whom it may seem impossible, …
