Category: WTF
Writing sex scenes is hard. Keeping with the old adage that “sex sells,” it seems that some authors feel the need to compensate by thrusting some very unneeded, unsexy …
At a hockey game a few weeks ago, I heard a conversation happening behind me during a pause in the game. “What are you reading?” a voice said. “Oh, …
Ladies, why is it that it’s 2016 and we still can’t get any recognition in one of the world’s leading industries? Women are totally conquering the literary world–according to …
The Nobel Prize awards are one of, if not the most prestigious awards any person can dream of obtaining. In 1901, following the death of Alfred Nobel in 1895, prizes …
I was surprised when Amazon ‘recommended’ this title to me: MAIL ORDER BRIDE: Sweet Wilderness Seduction By The Billionaire Cowboy Rancher (Cowboy Romance, Ranch Romance, Billionaire Stepbrother) (new adult, …
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 …
YouTube Channel: Splash News TV From the Description: Katy Perry revealed that her devout Christian minister parents forbade her from reading the popular Harry Potter books when she was growing up. And …
Never judge a book by it’s cover, they said. You may learn something, they said. Well, these covers taught me two things. One: some subjects are just incredibly boring. …
Sara Deeter
November 9, 2016
Adult, Book Lists, Classics, Drama, Fantasy, George R.R. Martin, Human Interest, J.K. Rowling, News, Politics, Potterheads, WTF, Young Adult
Like me, many of you are probably in mourning for America right now. There aren’t enough words, enough tears in the world to convey the depth of the devastation and …
As the election comes to its pinnacle, tensions mount on either side of the political spectrum. It’s been a heated race for the highest office in the land, with …
For Dummies manuals are awesome; who doesn’t love an in-depth, easy-t0-understand guide to teach them all about something they’ve been dying to learn to do? These titles, though, will …
If you found warriors buried with full battle regalia – swords, helmets, shields – you’d assume that they were men, right? Wrong – turns out that many Viking warriors, buried …
My senior year of college, I finally confessed something to my professor: I didn’t like reading. I felt like a fraud. Aren’t students of literature supposed to love their …
“If you can’t same something nice, don’t say nothing at all” is advice not followed by critics when dumping on authors. And authors themselves can be full-on nasty to …
Have you ever met someone, and upon hearing their name wanted to ask, “what were their parents thinking?” The hippy era ushered in a time of strange and unusual …
Donald Trump, our favorite politician always stepping in it, has been known to say some spectacularly weird and offensive things. After the 3rd debate, Antonio French on sparked a …
In a world of normal, mundane literary genres, there have to be at least more than a few that are simply out there. These five bizarre genres are proof …
Picture books in the United States are often happy and cute and directed at only children. In Europe, there tends to be more of an attitude of the picture book …
Once upon a time, gender played a major role in the success of an author. Many female authors used pseudonyms in an attempt to hide their “unladylike” writing, others …
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