Category: Shakespeare
Attention all high school and college students: if you really want to shine in the next class discussion, or get a good grade on your upcoming literary analysis essay, you’ll …
Rebecca Ogle
January 8, 2017
Book News, Book Publishing Companies, Classics, Contemporary, Drama, Gillian Flynn, Literary Fiction, New Releases, Performing Arts, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
Last year seemed like the year of celebrity deaths. Coincidentally, it was also the 400-year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Hogarth Shakespeare pulled out all the publishing stops to commemorate …
Did you solve all of Golum’s riddles before you even read Bilbo’s answers? Are you the wittiest of all Ravenclaws? Or is wit beyond measure just a little out of …
YouTube Channel: New China TV From the Description: This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. A major exhibition titled “Shakespeare in Ten Acts” opened at …
Whether you’ve always wanted to visit London but have never gotten the chance, are planning a trip and can’t wait to get there, or have already visited but feel like …
Christianna Marks
December 16, 2016
Adult, Book Lists, Contemporary, Crime, Crime Fiction, Fantasy, Faves, Historical Fiction, Horror, Humor, LGBT, Memoir, Mental Health, New Adult, Relationships, Romance, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Shakespeare, Suspense/Thriller, Women, Young Adult
As 2016 comes to a close, (how the heck did that happen?) it’s time for me to reflect on the books that found their way into my heart this …
Are you as familiar with literary characters as you are with your own friends? Do you know way more about classic literature than the average bookworm? We’ve compiled a …
One of the most magical things about picking up your favorite Starbucks order is knowing that you can slurp up the extra energy while reading chapter after chapter of your …
Do you remember what you read as a child? For me, it was (a lot of) Harry Potter, with some Tamora Pierce and Laura Ingalls Wilder novels sprinkled in. …
YouTube Channel: Alltime Conspiracies From the Description: April 23rd 2016 marks 400 years since the death of the most famous playwright of all time:William Shakespeare. For centuries, school students around …
Eleanor Hicks
November 19, 2016
Book Lists, Book Lovers, Classics, Fantasy, George R.R. Martin, Grab Bag, J. R. R. Tolkien, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Young Adult
As we demonstrated last week, the world of fiction is full of strange and grisly deaths. So full, in fact, that the strangest and grisliest refused to be confined …
Sara Deeter
November 14, 2016
Book Lists, Classics, George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Libraries, Potterheads, Shakespeare, Travel, William Shakespeare
Heading to the U.K. anytime soon? Love books with a fanaticism that borders on the insane? Good! The following will serve as excellent travel inspiration as you plan your …
Eleanor Hicks
November 12, 2016
Book Lists, Charles Dickens, Classics, Crime Fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, George R.R. Martin, Horror, J.K. Rowling, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, WTF, Young Adult
Death comes for us all, including our favorite book characters. Sometimes, those fictional deaths are heartbreaking. Othertimes, they’re deserved. And sometimes…well, sometimes they’re just plain weird. And kind of …
It looks like Shakespeare In Love may not have been so historically inaccurate after all—it was confirmed this week by the Oxford University Press that Christopher Marlowe did in fact …
Melanie Pitman
October 23, 2016
Book Lists, Book Lovers, Children, Classics, Comics and Graphic Novels, Dr. Seuss, Family, Gifts for Book Lovers, Jane Austen, More, Shakespeare
You have shelves full of books, DVD versions of all your favorite reads, and nerdy artwork galore. You also have a furry friend who needs something to do while …
Savana Charter
October 20, 2016
Book Lists, Book Lovers, Book Porn, Fantasy, Gifts for Book Lovers, New Releases, Reviews, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Young Adult
The Book Boyfriend Box is a brand new monthly bookish subscription box catering to YA enthusiasts who have a special adoration for what we book loving ladies like to call our “Book Boyfriends.” …
Patrick Stewart contains multitudes. “All of these people already exist inside me. It doesn’t matter how unspeakable they are, how unpleasant. They are there, and you have to find all …
Aubrey Fredrickson
October 12, 2016
Book Lovers, Dr. Seuss, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Human Interest, J.K. Rowling, Jane Austen, John Green, Lewis Carroll, More, Potterheads, Rainbow Rowell, Shakespeare
Are you the type of bookworm who always has perfectly manicured nails or do you tend to go polish-free most days? Either way, we know you’ll love these 17 …
It’s the season of fright, but for readers who don’t love horrors it’s a great time to catch up on the classics. These love stories are written by the …
It’s terrible but true that some of our favorite authors–some of the ones who wrote the most beautiful, moving literature–were also sexist. Almost more disturbingly, some of the most …