The first American novel was “The Power of Sympathy”, a tragic love story promoting rational thought that was written by William Hill Brown and published in Boston in 1791.
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H G Wells was inspired to write…
H G Wells was inspired to write War of the Worlds by the plight of the Tasmanian Aborigines. By the time Wells wrote that book there were no Tasmanian Aboriginals left to have a plight. The native of Tasmania were victims of one of the most complete genocides in modern history. The last male Tasmanian […]
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If You Love Literature, These Memes Are for You
I love to read – even most of the classics I was forced to read as a kid have become dear to me later in life. I read all of the time, and if I’m not, I’m wishing I had a new world to dive into.
Which is all to say that these 10 memes totally cracked me up, and if you love books and reading, I’m betting they’re going to do the same for you.
Also, there’s a lot of content from The Office and Parks and Rec, so if you don’t like all the literature stuff… you’re still gonna like that stuff.
10. Because men, am I right?
And she’s soooo pretttyyy.
9. I’m never going to stop laughing at this one.
It’s just too perfect.
8. Such a delicious villain.
Just like Dwight.
7. That’s what makes him a real teenager, though.
And also what makes him really dead in the end.
6. It’s best to prepare yourself up front.
The ending never changes, either, no matter how many times you read it.
5. When you put it that way…
It’s hard to see how this story has endured for so long.
4. Isn’t that what we all want?
Michael Scott is essentially King Lear.
3. Zero chill is part of Sherlock’s charm.
Unless you have to interact with him.
2. Poor guy had to learn the hard way.
And it took him a really long time.
1. Every single time.
I still love this book, though.
These are priceless! Maybe one day I will be so clever…
What are you reading right now? Tell me in the comments!
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Memes That Bookworms Everywhere Are Going to Love
I’ve always been a reader and with all of the extra time I’ve had on my hands (hahahaha sob) lately, I’ve been able to read more often and really check some titles off my list.
As a reader, I loved all 12 of these memes – and I just know you’re going to, also.
12. You can see why he would feel this way.
Also I can’t help but since “Burn” from Hamilton when I see this.
11. Wait I thought her crazy side was what he liked?
Obviously that Shakespeare class in college really paid off.
10. I have never seen a more perfect visual.
Also I miss Janet.
9. He’s nothing if not dramatic.
It’s part of the job description.
8. It doesn’t take long, does it.
Why does The Office mash up so well with classic literature?
7. Acting cool is hard, okay?
And they obviously had a thing for Hamlet.
6. I mean who hasn’t lost a little time there, though?
Not five hours. I hope.
5. How did Gatsby get all of the girls?
Oh right, the money.
4. It’s hard to believe, isn’t it?
But I mean, the story endures for a reason.
3. Hamlet wasn’t much for self-reflection.
Which is pretty odd, considering all of the other emo tendencies.
2. I would pay to see this update.
Perhaps I’ll write it myself, though besting the Leo and Claire version would be tough.
1. I cannot stop laughing at this.
It’s hilarious and perfection.
Ahhhhh maybe just 5 minutes with my nose in a book, then?
Which of these was your favorite? What are you reading? Tell me in the comments!
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‘Harry Potter’ Face Mask Shows the Marauder’s Map When You Breathe
If you’re a “Harry Potter” fan, then you probably know the Marauder’s Map, that magical document that revealed all sorts of hidden passageways and secret compartments at The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and beyond.
Harry received the map from Fred and George Weasley during his third year at Hogwarts and it proved to be a game-changer.
If you’ve always dreamed of having your own Marauder’s Map, you’re in luck. And you can even wear this version on your face.
The face mask starts off as a dusky black color. But once you put it on and start breathing into it, it slowly unveils the Marauder’s Map. So cool!
@coloradopex I am the maker of the mask
#mask #hp #artist #smallbusiness #magic *checkmeouton FB ***CPEX
The map is the brainchild of Colorado artist Stefanie Hokashou, who works under the brand name Colorado Pony Express. As you might imagine, as soon as she posted this magical map face mask on TikTok, people lost their minds and started scrambling to buy them from her. So, yes, they’re sold out. Hokashou is working furiously to make more, no doubt.
Here’s how the map works. It features nontoxic heat-activated dyes. When the dyes reach 82 degrees, the mask color changes from black to reveal the map.
Hook also makes plush dolls, slimes and custom orders. She’s also into art quilts, cosplay/wearable art and dragons, according to a Facebook group she runs.
She also made some other really cute types of masks:
Just imagine — this artist’s career is likely skyrocketing right now because she created this innovative face mask. People sure love their “Harry Potter” merch!
Have you read the “Harry Potter” books? Watched the movies? Which is better?
Let us know in the comments!
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Images That Book Lovers Might Not Like Too Much
If you’re not someone who loves books and loves to read, you may be fine with what you’re about to see. It may not bother you one bit to see books in states such as these, I don’t know.
What I do know, as someone who drinks books like water, is that every last one of these sparked an inexplicable, white-hot rage in my soul.
12. You SAY “use anything for a bookmark, don’t bend the page!”
Do you really still mean “anything,” though?
the downside to checking out books from the public library from WTF
11. You would think the people who make books would understand why this is awful.
A series of books should all be the same size! Duh!
Three books in the same series produced by the same company from CrappyDesign
10. This could be a genius marketing ploy.
Or just a regular old annoying thing that happens.
The perfect book for a price sticker that won’t come off from mildlyinfuriating
9. The actual bookmark is right there!
It’s RIGHT THERE.
Folding a page in a library book when it has a built-in bookmark. from mildlyinfuriating
8. Maybe it’s just meant to be a collectors thing?
But still, that’s egregious.
This Harry Potter box set doesn’t fit all of the books if any of them have actually been read or taken out from mildlyinfuriating
7. And it’s probably fine and you can infer what’s happened…
but you just can’t let it go, can you.
About finishing the book only to discover that 10 pages are missing from Wellthatsucks
6. Because “no phones in class.”
He showed you, I guess. *tears*
5. My heart just hurts for these kiddos.
And the rest of us, but mostly for them.
Polish catholic priest and kids burning religious symbols and fantasy literature. They burned stuff such as Harry Potter books, Lord of the Rings, buddhist figurines. from trashy
4. It’s all about the aesthetic, not the books.
I guarantee she hasn’t read them.
Image Credit: Instagram
3. Think of the TREES, people!
We need them to print more books!
Books that have this much paper before Chapter 1 even starts from mildlyinfuriating
2. It is nice to know what a book is about before you buy it.
Although maybe this is some kind of fun mystery buying experience?
1. I guarantee you the package said “do not bend,” too.
Newman is your mailman.
Dammit USPS… Go ahead and stuff a hardcover book in my mailbox! from pics
There is something wrong with people, y’all. Make it stop.
Which one of these made you the most uncomfortable? Tell us in the comments!
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Images That Will Frustrate Book Lovers Everywhere
People enjoy a good book now and then – on vacation, when they’re waiting in line at the DMV – but other people live for books. They prefer them to Netflix, and if they’ve got a spare 10 minutes, they’d rather read than scroll through social media.
They’re a quiet but passionate lot, and that description extends to the treatment of books and other odd things that surround a book lovers life.
If you’re one of us, you know what I mean – and you’ll quickly realize that there is so much wrong with these 14 pictures.
14. FFS, America.
It’s called an editor. Does no one do their jobs anymore?
This Hardcopy ELA book is complete with useless hyperlinks and and unwatchable videos. Go American Education System from CrappyDesign
13. That can’t be an accident, right?
It’s some kind of reverse marketing ploy?
The only book in the store that’s wrapped in plastic is this one.. from mildlyinfuriating
12. When there’s a legit monster on your flight.
Why would you never want anyone to enjoy that book again?
Got bumped to first class (super sweet) only to witness this lady TEARING off the pages of the book she’s reading. from mildlyinfuriating
11. I suppose it’s job security.
And the jury is out on the “proper” way to shelve books.
You think you're having a bad week? My poor colleague has just been in to do her weekly check of the library building. The cleaner has stared deep cleaning the space (so far, so good) and has cleaned the shelves but has put 18.5 bays of books back on IN SIZE ORDER.
— Krystal Vittles (@KrystalVittles) April 23, 2020
10. I guess some people just want everyone to be as dumb as they are.
This makes me so, so angry.
9. First of all, congrats on all of the new books.
Those boxes also look rather large to house a single book.
Ordered 27 books from Amazon on a single order. Got 27 boxes with 1 book each delivered. from mildlyinfuriating
8. No, that’s NOT what books are for.
That’s not how any of this works.
This hotel doesn’t allow you to use books for their intended purpose. from mildlyinfuriating
7. If this doesn’t make you profoundly sad, we are not the same.
But also, why on earth doesn’t everyone use the easy peel price stickers? Argh!
This price sticker that ruined the cover of this 1908 book from mildlyinfuriating
6. This actually is so ironic, Alanis.
Or maybe it was the layout person’s fault.
I don’t think I should read this deign chapter in my book. from CrappyDesign
5. This was the idea of a sociopath.
Seriously just wtf is going on here.
Instead of putting in a bookshelf, this coffee shop cut the spines of the books and glued them to a shelf… from mildlyinfuriating
4. I mean it’s your book, you can do what you want.
But this makes me want to cry.
Yesterday my colleague called me a 'book murderer' because I cut long books in half to make them more portable. Does anyone else do this? Is it just me? pic.twitter.com/VQUUdJMpwT
— Alex Christofi (@alex_christofi) January 21, 2020
3. It definitely wasn’t a librarian who put in those stickers.
No one who reads would ruin the last page of a book.
This is the last page of a book in my schools library. This isn’t the only time it happened either. from mildlyinfuriating
2. There’s always gotta be one person.
I wonder if they open the packaging on everything ahead of time.
This store sells books wrapped in packaging so readers can pick a book from just a sentence. Somebody opened all of them. from mildlyinfuriating
1. I mean, it’s still better than turning down the page.
It looks far past the smelling stage, too.
Looking through an old cookery book I just found and there’s a squashed frog as a bookmark :/ from WTF
I’m dying inside a little bit more with every entry! Argh!
Which one of these was the hardest to look at for you? I can’t pick!
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If You Don’t Want to Clean up After Your Kids, At Least One Author Has Your Back
All of us have had those days when the dishes are piled in the sink, toys are everywhere, the kids are probably naked and have dirty hair, and you can’t find the will to care, right?
Sometimes we get up and do it anyway, other times we let it sit until morning (or afternoon or evening), but either way, we feel guilty about all of the ways we’re failing our kids (and what our mothers would think if they could see the house).
What if you didn’t have to, though?
Journalist Tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, wants you to consider the idea that not only is a little disorder acceptable, it’s necessary for creativity.
One of his biggest tips is one that can be applied across the board in parenting – pick your battles.
“We have a real tendency to try to control other people’s mess and make them tidy up. It’s a very common problem in offices when you have clean desk policies, and there’s really no rationale. It frustrates workers. The same thing is true in the home.”
So, for example, it’s good to have rules that your children help with household chores that must get done, like keeping a tidy kitchen that doesn’t attract mice and bugs, but it’s also okay to let their rooms look however they want.
He says also to keep in mind that things beyond the physical can be making “messes” in your life, and learning how to thrive with one type can assist with handling the other.
“There’s having messy surroundings, but also messiness in other ways. Like having to deal with different kinds of people and things that can’t be planned. Those situations are opportunities to problem-solve differently, and make us more creative, more responsive, human.”
Another one of my personal favorite think-pieces on parenting pointed out that we, as the responsible adults, are forced to say no all the time – we need to keep them safe, we have other people’s schedules to consider, and we would like for our homes to not be destroyed – so when you can say yes, you should.
Harford describes a similar revelation with his daughter.
. Anyone else’s house just feel destroyed at the end of everyday? It’s seriously a problem for me. I’m naturally a messy person, but ever since becoming a mom and starting a YouTube channel, I feel like I just run around like a chicken with my head cut off constantly! I always feel like I’m behind on basically everything. I do everything so fast and frantically, that at the end of the day the mess is overwhelming and I’m exhausted. So this is my house.
Anyone else? Or am I just bad at this adulting thing?. . . . . #messy_motherhood #messyhouse #messymotherhood #mom #momyoutuber #momlife #momsofinstagram #momblogger #motherhood #motherhoodunplugged #motherhoodthroughinstagram #motherhoodrising #motherhoodinspired #motherhoodsimplified #motherhoodintheraw #motherhoodjourney #reallifemoments #momtruth #stressedbutblessed #rawmotherhood #youtubemom #youtubemama #mommyyoutuber“At the time she was about 11 and she asked, ‘Can I walk to school?’ And my initial instinct was ‘I can’t deal with another change to the routine right now,’ and I caught myself and I thought, ‘Why can’t she walk to school? She knows the say, she just told me she wants to do it, and this actually makes my life easier.”
Some people, Harford says, are a little too attached to their binders and planners, and it’s not doing anyone any good.
“I think it’s really tempting to overschedule our children. And, I think it’s really tempting also to let them overschedule themselves.”
One study supports this way of thinking, finding that kids and teenagers who were overscheduled tended to quickly become demotivated because their schedule did not account for the many things that could crop up and prevent their “success” of checking all of the boxes every day.
Basically, he’s advocating for a more laid-back lifestyle in which kids take the lead with their own level of messiness, and their own scheduling, and their own activities while we’re supportive but not overly involved.
I don’t know, but I like the sound of that.
How about you? Do you follow this “pick your battles” and “say yes when you can” life? I think I’m going to double my efforts!
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A New ‘Twilight’ Book is Coming out This Year and People Have Strong Feelings About It
2020 has been FULL of twists and turns. Most of them…horrible. But a few have been great, or at least fun to talk about? Such is the case with author Stephanie Meyer’s announcement that she will be releasing a new Twilight book this year. Meyer, whose Twilight series has sold over 100 million copies and spawned 5 feature films over the last 15 years (not to mention indirectly creating the 50 Shades of Grey phenomenon), says that the new installment will drop on August 4th, 2020.
This volume is called Midnight Sun, and it’s a retelling of the Twilight story from Edward’s perspective. Work began on the project years ago, but it was abandoned after several chapters of the manuscript were leaked online, which threw Meyer off her groove. But now, at long last, the lost work will see fruition, and the internet is going nuts about it.
15. I said what now?
When asked if he would enjoy the movies were he not a part of them, Pattison said he “would just mindlessly hate it.”
Robert Pattinson hearing about midnight sun after trash talking the movies
#MidnightSun pic.twitter.com/2pkeLiAOVS— Mel – BLACK LIVES MATTER (@grungeugly) May 4, 2020
14. Hope in the darkness
Honestly, we’ll take anything we can get right now.
Can't believe Stephanie Meyer is gonna save the summer with midnight sun pic.twitter.com/uPRJsN6a9P
— snufkin_with_knife.jpg (@mxmothman) May 4, 2020
13. Count me in
I wasn’t really aware there was a Twilight renaissance, but, here we are.
i cant believe we're finally getting midnight sun. stephenie meyer said twilight renaissance? NOT WITHOUT ME BITCH pic.twitter.com/CDgRvlFHr0
— tink
(@prettymagicx) May 4, 2020
12. Interesting news
To be fair, he’s chilled about the franchise over the years.
Robert Pattinson waking up to the Midnight Sun news this morning pic.twitter.com/IMEpYNxpA1
— Jon (@prasejeebus) May 4, 2020
11. Team Jacob
Let the fighting commence.
"Stephenie Meyer releasing Midnight Sun a Twilight novel told from Edward's point of View in 2020"
Me: pic.twitter.com/22TSyKhwkE
— tink
10. What we do in the shadows
Those movies have made him tens of millions of dollars, he can’t be that upset.
somewhere… in a land far away from us all… Robert Pattinson goes into hiding
— Mason Deaver (@masondeaver) May 4, 2020
9. Throwing shade
I guess this is from the leaked manuscript?
the funniest thing about midnight sun is how much of a bitchy little drama queen Edward was. like this bit where he doesn't feel bad about reading emmett's thoughts because he reasons emmett is no thoughts head empty a dumb sack of rocks like skdkjfjf that's your BROTHER pic.twitter.com/WDwU1bLYQz
—
(@miccaeli) May 4, 2020
8. Shed a tear for me
Again. TENS. OF MILLIONS. OF DOLLARS.
Robert Pattinson somewhere right now thinking about all the questions during his next promotional tour being about Midnight Sun and twilight pic.twitter.com/H6ASzwdaCC
— Amina (@AfricanKhaIeesi) May 4, 2020
7. Spill the tea
They’ll simply have to chime in.
im waiting for Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's opinion of this Midnight Sun. pic.twitter.com/d3IXsaZyzw
— E (@RKmyBabies) May 4, 2020
6. Picture this
The story of the story coming out is compelling in and of itself.
POV: it’s Coronavirus season. You’ve been quarantined for 8 weeks. You are bored, lonely, stir crazy, and depressed. The future is uncertain and bleak. But THEN… then… Stephenie Meyer announces the long-awaited release of Midnight Sun. Suddenly everything feels okay.
pic.twitter.com/TdMSivtGVS
— Another Bite of Twilight (@abotpodcast) May 4, 2020
5. Not the hero we deserve
But the one we need right now.
i can't believe stephenie meyer saved 2020#Twilight #MidnightSun pic.twitter.com/Fka29uxGil
— #BLM // met zendaya and got drunk
(@linettishoe) May 4, 2020
4. Fork this
This is a pretty sweet preview.
midnight sun (august 4, 2020) pic.twitter.com/AXuCl99XMK
— Jessie (@arovlturi) May 4, 2020
3. Times have changed
There are…so many more important things to fight about.
discussing twilight in 2010 vs discussing twilight in 2020 pic.twitter.com/PP6BS18jOs
— izzy (@edwardcuII3n) May 4, 2020
2. Forever 17
I always found this super creepy.
What I most hope from MIDNIGHT SUN is that we understand why the Cullens, who presumably could be doing anything they want, keep going to high school over and over again.
— Samantha Shannon (@say_shannon) May 4, 2020
1. The horror!
HE LITERALLY HAS MORE MONEY THAN THE GDP OF HAWAII, HE’S FINE!
robert pattinson when he has to star in another twilight movie #midnightsun pic.twitter.com/6kfHsNlP6Q
— sana (@darcyslizzy) May 4, 2020
Well, now that I’m done getting weirdly upset about how rich Robert Pattinson is, I feel I should atone by actually watching one of this movies. Like Twilight. Or…maybe The Lighthouse. Yeah, The Lighthouse.
How are you feeling about this upcoming book?
Tell us in the comments!
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The book called “The Secret (treasure hunt)”…
The book called “The Secret (treasure hunt)” contains 12 cryptic paintings associated with 12 cryptic riddles you must decipher in order to dig up a key to the loot buried around the U.S. and Canada. Through the end of 2019, only three of the 12 loot boxes have been found.
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