What is the first thought that comes to your mind when you think about fiction? Do you suppose something that is so often described as untrue can actually live in reality? Sometimes fiction is funny, and other times it’s more fickle than you’d like. But, if there is one thing you should know about fiction, […]
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All images via myBOOKmark’s Facebook page. Being Ukranian, I get very proud each time my country demonstrates its creativity and passion for beauty with innovative ideas. Today I was casually browsing my social media when I found this unbelievably amazing brand from Ukraine: myBOOKmark. Oksany Mysnyk and the girls have the most creative bookmarks I’ve seen in a long, long time. As […]
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Whenever I think about how I discovered my passion for writing, I know it always comes down to the day that my parents gave me my first fairy tale book. I remember being so absorbed in reading the stories and wondering if I could write my own in the future. With this in mind, I started to write […]
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I have a record of picking terrible movies to watch on airplanes. I once chose Marley & Me to watch on a long flight and extraordinarily embarrassed myself by hysterically ugly-sobbing the entire flight. If I had known the movie was sad, I would not have watched it in such a public, confined space. Who even […]
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In case you missed it, #BooksArentDangerous, the social media campaign led by the authors of the Beautiful Creatures series, wrapped up this week to great success. The idea was to take a picture with a book that saved your life, changed your life, or just a book that you’d recommend and then post it […]
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There’s a stigma in our culture of Comic-Con being extremely nerdy. I mean, we’ve seen stereotypical nerds in movies and television (The Big Bang Theory, anyone?), and when we hear the term “nerdy,” that’s what we associate it with. Well, not anymore. Comic-Con has evolved and isn’t even solely comics anymore. It now includes movie franchises, television shows, […]
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Happy Valentine’s Day, dearest readers! There’s not much to say about this commercialized mush-fest that hasn’t already been said, so I’ll leave you all with the top 3 quotes about love that I — in all my 22 years of infinite wisdom and experience — have determined to be The Best. When I say The […]
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Youtubers Claire (ReadingBukowski) and Lesley (WordsofaReader) have come together to host a Little Women Read-Along this December (which has officially arrived)! They will be going through both Little Women and Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott, and they are asking everyone else to join them. Rather than having set dates to have sections read by, they are simply asking that you join […]
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A recent YouTube fad has been repurposing classic literature into modern day vlogs with the characters leading the viewer through the well-known story (in my opinion, a huge leap forward from inane, often dangerous challenges). While I could easily give you a list of web series that are certainly worth a watch (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, The […]
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