Young people today just don't read enough, right? If you're under the age of 30, you've probably been accused of this at some point in your life. In fact, it seems that every upcoming generation is stereotyped as lazier than the one that came before it. We've all overheard the same complaints: "always up to…
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All Things Tolkien: Five Ways to Await the Release of “The Hobbit”
If you are counting the days until the December 14, 2012 release date of The Hobbit (Part I) chances are you do not have a girlfriend and therefore need to find ways to pass the time. (I kid the geeks... I kid. Some of them do not have boyfriends.) Not to worry. Since its original publication in 1937,…
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Top Ten Tattoos Inspired by Children’s Books
Our favorite childhood books stay with us in our minds and our hearts forever. They're the reason why, mid-life, you can look at the bald patch of the man at your side and think only of the velveteen rabbit, with all his fur loved off. But the only way to really show your love for…
FOR SALE: Dracula’s Birthplace
Here's something you won't find in Craigslist's classifieds... The writing desk at which Bram Stoker created the bloodcurdling modern myth of Dracula will soon be up for auction. Looking at the ornate desk today, which seems so fitting as the gothic setting for the creation of perhaps the most chilling book in English literature, it's…
Shakespeare and Fry and Bly, Oh My! : Literary Quotes On Storms
At eNotes, we want all of our followers and customers to know we are thinking about you in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and wish everyone a speedy and safe recovery. Hopefully, you have power and can read this... but if your battery is running low, I hear there is a Starbucks on Broadway where…
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Top Ten Better Book Titles
Better Book Titles is an amusing collection of attempts to rename well-known works of literature. The results are pithy and appropriate, summarizing everything you really need to know about a book right on its cover (ex. Oedipus Rex becomes "How I Met Your Mother," The Giver = "Love in the Time of Death Panels," and…
Top Ten Famous Last Words and Final Stops: Writers and Their Gravesites
Everyone has a different way of coping with what George Bernard Shaw called "that troublesome business." The promise of death should motivate us to live everyday to the fullest because as Jim Morrison aptly noted, "No one here gets out alive." So on that cheerful note, here are some of the last words of famous writers and…
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Bring Up the Booker
Yesterday the prestigious Man Booker prize was awarded, breaking two important records in the process. The lucky recipient Hilary Mantel became the first woman to win the award twice, and the first author to win it for a consecutive sequel.
British author Mantel won her first Booker prize in 2009 with the historical…