Riley Keough, has signed on to star in the new Amazon series, Daisy Jones and the Six, based on the novel of the same name by Taylor Jenkins Reid. She will be portraying fictional singer Daisy Jones. Image via Amazon The novel chronicles the fictional lives of musicians in a seventies band. The story is told in an interview style with the musicians in the present, talking about their past experiences being a band, and all the good and bad that went along with it. Keough, played a similar role back in 2010, when she was in …
Sarah Dessen is well known for her Young Adult contemporary novels. This past summer she released her fourteenth novel, The Rest of the Story. All of her novels focus on a teen girl, so of course her key demographic is teen girls, but apparently Northern State University found her novels compelling enough to add to their “Common Read”, which is a book the entire university is asked to read. One of the students attending the school at the time decided to voice her opinion, in which she stated according to Newsweek, that Dessen is great for teens but is not up …
This month is the nine year anniversary of Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1, and the eight year anniversary of Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2. In honor of these two movies, here are some memes that are just too good not to share. 1. Not really a bad example Image via Memesmonkey Okay, so this movie does shed some light on teen pregnancy in an unrealistic way. We are already confused as to how a dead vampire can produce sperm, but is Bella staying a size two unrealistic? She barely ate while pregnant and Renesmee was basically …
Charlotte Bronte wrote a book at the age of fourteen and now it’s coming home. It was recently bought by the Bronte Society in Paris. The last time the book was up for auction was in 2011, and that time around the Bronte society lost out. This time around the Society was able to purchase it for 600,000 euros. Image via Mentalfloss The book was written about Bronte’s toy soldiers that she and her younger siblings used to play with. She created an imaginary world for them and wrote six little stories for them. The Bronte Parsonage …
We all love ensemble movies, and Netflix’s new film, Let it Snow, based on the novel of the same name by John Green, just might be the new Love Actually. Both movies have a similar vibe, considering it takes place during the holiday seasons, and it highlights different couples and their love. Except, Love Actually took place over the course of several days, while Let it Snow, takes place on just the one day, Christmas Eve during a snowstorm. Image via the Guardian The movie follows five different teen duos during a snowstorm on Christmas Eve. One of …
