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As you can see, there is quite a bit of things included in Twitterature. Some even say fan accounts that tweet from the perspective of fictional characters count as part of the genre. The possibilities are endless! The account @veryshortstory, for example, has been Tweeting out one-tweet fiction since 2009, and many users have taken the #vss (very short story) to share their own attempts at the medium. @sixwords Tweets out six-word memoirs, occasionally compiling them into books....

The first place children can access books if they are not available in their homes is in school. Books can be found in classrooms and the school library. School libraries are vitally important for access, especially for children who don’t have access to transportation to public libraries or the funds to purchase books at bookstores. The American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights article V states: “A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views....

But eventually my new-to-comics friends, family members, and business associates will ask: “So why is the text in comics Like That?” The short answer is usually that it’s tradition inherited from when comics were printed on the cheap and intended to be read by young children. The long answer, though… First of all, the text in comics is referred to as lettering. That’s the words in the speech balloons and thought bubbles, the balloons and bubbles themselves, the narration boxes, the sound effects, and sometimes more....

I’d like to know why periods are rarely mentioned in literature. There’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, which lands itself on challenged and book banned lists; Carrie; The Widows of Malabar Hill; Killers of a Certain Age; Fifty Shades of Grey. Except for the latter — a tampon removal for sex scene — all these books focus on first periods or menopause, which seems to be the reason periods exists (or cease to) in novels the rare times they do....

Who is bell hooks? bell hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky as Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952. She adopted her pen name from her great grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. hooks chooses not to capitalize her name in part to honor her grandmother, and so that her words speak for themselves and not for her name. bell hooks received her BA in English from Stanford University, MA from University of Wisconsin Madison, and finally her PhD from the University of California Santa Cruz; she even wrote her dissertation on Toni Morrison....

Why Read On a Kindle? Reading with a Kindle is a “unique but same” kind of experience. It’s the only device that gives you a similar feeling of reading an actual book, but with the added bonus of letting you carry your entire library in your hand. I’m particularly fond of the Oasis; its square shape seems to just nestle into one hand, perfect for long reading sessions. The Paperwhite screen is backlit and easy on the eyes....

I’ve been reading her books for years, and back in 2019, was able to see her live when she was promoting The Fountains of Silence. During the discussion, I learned that Sepetys, as a Lithuania American, was driven to write about forgotten moments in time because she never heard the country of ancestors and its struggles spoken about in public discourse. In fact, Lithuania as a country was only included on maps after the fall of the Soviet Union....

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I initially wrote “her work,” but it’s never felt like the relationship was just with the work, and I think that’s the difference between a writer and a literary celebrity. At the same time, I think I found her exactly when I needed to, but in memoir rather than in the essays I would go on to try to emulate. I read The Year of Magical Thinking a few months after my mom died (not suddenly, not at the dinner table, but isn’t it always sudden even if you know it’s going to happen?...

As you take this trip, your eyes dance along the covers. They waltz from bright hues to muted tones. Your eyes tango over some bestsellers and linger on a few modern classics. They finally settle on a gold cover packed with images of a dragon and rose. Everything from the font to the coloring resembles a fairytale. You decide to pick it up and read the inside blurb. It’s about a young woman who must leave her small village to serve the wizard that protects them....

And then, not long after Season 2 of Game of Thrones aired, I went to college, and we really were apart. I can’t speak for my sister, but for me, that’s when it began. As I grew, and as she grew, I started slowly feeling an ache of something that was missing. I began to miss my sister, even though I’d never really felt I’d known her. I began to see the ways we could lean on each other, even if they were small, even if they were without names....

I understand that the acknowledgments can seem dull. After all, the vast majority of readers will have no personal connection to any of the people who are mentioned there. It can feel a bit like being a plus one at someone’s high school reunion and spending the whole night listening to your date reminisce about people you don’t know and memories you don’t share. But this is where I remind myself that sometimes it’s not about me....

Snapping spines Staining pages Highlighting passages Curling covers Many people in the bookish community would find it terrible that I treated my books this way. I’ve heard people audibly gasp at me when I tell them I dogeared pages. God forbid I also mention using pen. When it comes to books, especially great books, the game is to preserve the books you love and treat them like they’re your children....

Like many other readers, I sat down recently to revisit Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. I remember virtually nothing from the book — I can hardly even remember when I read it, but I know I picked it up one summer in my teen years on my own and I know we read it in an English class in high school. I wanted to revisit Lee’s classic in part to prepare for the release of Go Set A Watchman and in part because I could not wrap my head around the claims I’ve seen made again and again and again and again and again that in today’s market, it would be sold as a young adult (YA) novel....

I get it. Not everyone reads as much as I do. And people have busy lives. But in most of my book club meetings, regardless of whether I was living in Tennessee or NYC, someone wouldn’t have read the book. More than once, I was the only person who read the book or at least the only one who finished. And I loved the snacks and the drinking wine and monthly catch up sessions....

Just a year ago, Book Riot’s Nadia Ali talked about why YA dystopian fiction has continued to thrive. And that continues to be the case in 2020. As we become more aware of how dystopian fiction reflects the realities of our own world, dystopian fiction seems all the more relevant. But what books should you be reading now or on the lookout for in 2020? Check out these fifteen novels....

So what makes the comic con the ultimate geek experience? Is it everything we are lead to believe? And are we still going for the comic books? You Always Remember Your First My first comic book convention experience was Supanova Sydney in 2014. We were going for the first time, for me and as a family. The drawcard for us was Stan Lee. Being isolated way down in Australia, it’s rare to score a big name guest like Stan Lee....

I’ve put the Star Wars books into a few different categories here, and given you a little leeway in how you tackle this depending on what your interests are. So without further ado, let’s get into it. A Star Wars Books Reading Order for New Film Fans If you’ve just tuned in with the new trilogy, then you’re probably not super attached to the classic characters. Totally cool. Here are the books that’ll flesh out that galaxy far, far away for you and give you the story leading up to The Force Awakens: The Star Wars: Shattered Empire comics series by Greg Rucka, Marco Checcheletto, and Joe Caramagna, followed by: Star Wars: Bloodline by Claudia Grey (honestly, one of the best Star Wars books ever written, and my personal favorite, featuring a 40-something Leia and a lot of the political lead-in to The Force Awakens) Star Wars: Phasma by Delilah S....

If you’re new to books in translation, the search for women writers can feel overwhelming. How do you know what books you might like? Where do you find these books? How do you know if a translation is good or not? These were all the questions I asked myself when I first started looking for more women in translation. While I just sort of blundered my way around the internet trying out all different sorts of things, I can’t really recommend it....

These are the kind of stories I think we all want to read sometimes. When I watch a Wes Anderson movie, I expect to cry a little, to laugh a bit, and to think about the film for a while afterwards. The same goes for the books on this list. There are sad-happy stories, and happy-sad stories with families and friendships, and eccentric characters, and passages that you will have to read a few times just so you can think about them later....