In light of National Book Awareness Month, which celebrates devotion to reading and book awareness, we’re going full throttle: why settle for a one-book celebration when you could devour an entire series? To rev up the reading enthusiasm and to get all you bookworms buried nose deep in good reads, we’re providing you with a list of new series ready for your love. We know what you’re thinking: starting a new series can be daunting—we understand. Each chapter brings the creeping obligation to read the next in the series, and the deeper you get the stronger cemented the drive to …
There’s a gap in the literary canon. Well actually, there are a ton of gaps in the canon, but there’s one that feels extra pressing this month as we celebrate Women’s history. Skimming through the decades, generations, and centuries, our bookshelves are overgrown with male writers. It’s a melting pot of languages and cultures, sure, but the soup we’re serving up still lacks gender representation. The canon has become better at including women, but despite these strides there are genres where the female absence is still felt, and a female presence is still desperately needed. Cue nearly every travel novel …
Now that International Women’s Day has passed and were officially in the thick of the month dedicated to the ladies, it’s time to drop the banners and balloons and get down to the real celebration (at least in our minds): reading. To kick off the reading binge, the Stella Prize has provided us with an exceptional list of six novels. For anyone unfamiliar with the organization, the Stella Prize is an award given to Australian female fiction and nonfiction authors. Troubled by an underrepresentation of women authors as literary prize winners, the Stella Prize showcases amazing female talent and prides …
SPOILERS AHEAD This week Kit Harington revealed – after much painful waiting and conspiracies unbound – that his character, Jon Snow, will be returning to Season 6 of Game of Thrones, and that filming is already under way. But just what kinds of scenes is Harington shooting? Snow devotees may want to skip the next few lines… According to Harington, Snow will return in the form of a corpse in the next season (which is a limited role to say the least). While we were hoping for the best, surviving an inordinate number of stab wounds just doesn’t make the …
Universal’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando is still a relatively new place for enamoured Potter fans to visit, offering a magical immersion into J.K. Rowling’s world and an escape from the mundane world of Muggles. Recently, Universal reached out to the fans with a whole new roster of ideas and events including a 3D light show, a lavish holiday party in Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley, a nightmare show at Hogwarts Castle, and several others. But the one that really caught every spell mumbling fan’s eye was the Yule Ball. Yes, a real life Yule Ball. Gif courtesy of Giphy …
