4 Classics to Read on a Rainy Autumn Day
These four classics are perfect for reading amid the torrential rain on a cool evening and, most importantly, complement the season that has fallen upon us this time of year.
AUTHOR: Lorren Pitchford
The Last Surviving Manuscript of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan Gets Published
The fair copy of Lady Susan is the only complete surviving manuscript of Jane Austen’s fiction. Each of the other copies were most likely destroyed after printing, and neither Austen nor her family retained documents from the author’s early writing days.
Surprise! Dexter Morgan is Back!
America’s favorite serial killer just announced his return to Showtime and already fans cannot contain their excitement. In the series finale back in 2013, Dexter Morgan, a blood-splatter analyst by day and killer by night, faked his death and presumed the role of a lumberjack. Of course, fans thought that would be the end of Dexter Morgan after that faithful episode, but Showtime has decided to revisit the character and roll out ten new episodes for a pseudo ninth season. With the show’s announcement came the news that Michael C. Hall will also be reprising his role as Dexter Morgan …
Rare €50,000 Harry Potter First Edition Finds Its Way Up for Auction
Do you remember the day that you brought home your first Harry Potter book? Do you remember going to the bookstore and picking up a copy of the story that stunned the world? I do. I remember my second-grade self holding my Dad’s hand as we strolled through the aisles of the bookstore to the “big girl section,” so I could pick out my first chapter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I loved that book with all my heart, but I did not take good care of it. Of course, back then, I did not know preserving books …
The Queen of Vampires, Anne Rice, Turns Seventy-Nine
As a young girl, I was always fascinated with the supernatural and enthralled by entities that defied all possibilities. I would read anything that contained beings that would spook the living daylights out of any normal human, and I would revel in these creatures’ evil ways and unethical choices. Out of all the supernatural beings in the world, however, vampires are what piqued my interest the most. I don’t know if it was their fangs or their unnatural quitch for blood, but I was drawn to them, like a moth to the glow of a candle. Unsurprisingly, I was drawn …