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“That posthumous embarrassment has come for Little Women author Louisa May Alcott, whose draft of a romantic novella called Aunt Nellie’s Diary—written when she was as a teenager—is set to be published this month by a literary magazine called Strand. From the Los Angeles Times’s reporting, it sounds exactly like the rest of our teenaged novelistic endeavors…”For the love of all that is good and pure, please don’t ever do me like this....

But what you may not realize is that the X-Men aren’t quite as good at romance as they are at slugging bad guys. In fact, the X-Men are terrible at romance, and this post will prove it. I’m going to try to stick to the 1980s here, because a) that’s what I know best and b) neither of us wants to be here all day. This article is fairly lighthearted, but if you feel that any discussion of incest or underage stuff will upset you, please do make use of the back button....

Within an hour of returning home, I saw a post on this very site about how Virginia politicians were suing Oni Press and Kobabe because the book allegedly flouted the state’s obscenity laws. I already knew Gender Queer was fast becoming one of the most widely banned titles in the country, but seeing that post as I cradled my brand new copy in my arms, I felt especially outraged, like an overprotective mama bear....

These Ipsy for books–style services keep fresh books coming to your mailbox on a monthly or quarterly basis. Plenty of these services provide you with personalized recommendations based on a theme or your stated preferences. Some of them also feature fun extras, like book-themed goodies. But all of them keep you stocked with a steady stream of new ideas for what to read. 1. TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations Book Riot’s own TBR (it stands for Tailored Book Recommendations) gives you suggestions based on your personal reading habits and preferences....

Part of what makes the story so special is that Lara Jean’s crushes are well-developed, nuanced characters. They also represent all of these different paths Lara Jean could take as she begins to figure out both who she wants to be and, because romance, who she wants to be with. Answer the following questions to cathartically live through her love life and figure out which boy you’d choose for Lara Jean....

Helping me out this time is the most aptly named writer of all time. Originally from south Louisiana, Nola Nash now lives in Tennessee and teaches middle school English. Which makes her either a saint or exceedingly weird. Or probably both. (I get to say that as a former middle school English teacher.) Crescent City Moon by Nola Nash Nash’s debut novel takes readers to 1820s New Orleans. Crescent City Moon starts with protagonist Zéolie Cheval finding her father’s dead body....

On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead in Stockholm. The crime is still unsolved today. It’s now known that Larsson began his own investigation into the assassination—continuing the search until his own death. In 2014, journalist and documentary filmmaker, Jan Stocklassa gained access to the 20 boxes of Larsson’s research into the case. “In The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson and the Hunt for an Assassin, Stocklassa reveals new facts about the case and reveals the hitherto unknown research of the best-selling author in a fascinating true crime story....

The costumes were also featured in the Fall 2019 issue of Disney twenty-three Magazine, which features upcoming live-action Lady and the Tramp stars on the cover, a spread on the upcoming fan favourite Star Wars: The Mandalorian, and more exclusive Disney + content! This magazine will be sent out to Gold Disney 23 members this month. You can sign up for membership and magazine subscription on the Disney twenty-three publication website....

Watch the full trailer below. Get ready for your final season viewing party with these Game of Thrones t-shirts. Read one Rioter’s endorsement of Sansa Stark for the iron throne.

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The eagerly anticipated A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian centers on a circle of friends in a Bangalore slum known as Heaven. Together they wage war on the bulldozers that would bury their homes and the city that does not care. A politically driven graffiti artist. A transgender Christian convert. A blind girl who loves to dance. A queer daughter of a hijabi union leader. “This is a book to give your little sister, your mother, your best friend, yourself, so together you can celebrate the strength of women and girls, the tenacity it takes to survive in a world that would rather have you disappear....

Now, that information is even more abundant. Not all of it is great or accurate, of course. But there are also more safeguards in place and more professionals working to vet these resources for the strongest and most accurate advice and insight. But what did teenagers do before the advent of the internet? Certainly, they talked with one another — I suspect, like me, young people got their information about what certain slang terms meant from more worldly friends....

Many of the popular enneagram books, such as The Wisdom of the Enneagram or Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery, were written in the 1980s and ’90s. But as younger generations become interested, a resurgence of books has been published, shining a new light on this ancient system. People now use the enneagram to guide their own self-growth, build relationships, explore spirituality, and more. If you’ve recently learned about this personality system, or are curious to learn more, here are five modern books about the enneagram....

Because, of course, what’s the first place we turn to when we want to learn about something? Books. Anne Bogel has an excellent book which introduces personality types, called Reading People, so if you need a primer on the different ways people have come up with to understand humans, that’s a great place to start. Below are some further recommendations for books on personality types, with apologies for the lack of diversity....

Now, Woolf follows me around. I hear her words every time I see waves crashing on a shore, or light coming dappled through the leaves. I embroidered a piece that reads, “and in me too the wave rises,” a phrase from The Waves. Reading her journals, you can watch her discover her voice and rhythm. They’ve made her real, hovering beside me, sometimes guiding my own thoughts and wonderings. The joy of it is discovering more of who Woolf was as a true person, rather than a simple “tortured writer” archetype that people often reduced her to....

As modern readers, if we have a harder time understanding satire, it is partly owing to a decline of satire itself, which thrives in environments that repress select ideas. A prevailing theme of satire is how it often expresses opinions that, if spoken plainly, would lead to consequences for the author. Whether it’s an opinion that goes against the interests of a powerful person — such as a politician — or an institution — such as the government — or even one that creates dissent among the general public, satire uses its subversive form to express an idea that isn’t otherwise easy to talk about....

Adaptations are incredibly common in the film industry. Book-to film, television-to-film, true story-to-film—there’s a reason why “Best Adapted Screenplay” is its own category at the Academy Awards. The issue with adapting a theatre script for film is that plays and screenplays have vastly different structure. In playwriting, dialogue is the most important component. The original cast or workshop cast of a play has a major influence on written actions. Many scripts do not have parentheticals until after the first production....

I’ve been a huge fan of the book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, for more than a decade. In fact, it’s what brought me and my now-husband together. He recommended the series on one of our first dates, and I fell in love with the characters and storylines as I fell in love with him. We would talk for hours about theories and ideas for where the books would go....

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New Zealand has suffered, what they have accurately called, a terrorist attack. An Australian national went on a rampage at various mosques in Christchurch, killing at least fifty people who were praying. The suspect has been taken into custody but the damage, emotional and physical remains. He apparently wrote online that he expected to go to Valhalla, the Norse afterlife for heroes, if he died during his massacre. First, as social media has pointed out, the Norse gods would not call senseless killing of innocents heroic....