Looking forward to another year of awesome movie adaptations! In order of release date.
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The Pride And Prejudice Super Fan's Guide To Britain
You’ll love it, most ardently.
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The Zuckerberg Effect: Facebook CEO Book Pick Goes From 44,369 To 10 On Amazon
Mark Zuckerberg’s “challenge for 2015” could prove to be a boon for authors.
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Thanks to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Moisés Naím's The End of Power has shot up over 44,000 places on Amazon's ranking of book sales, from 44,369th before January to 10th on Monday night. For its e-book edition in Amazon's Kindle Store, the book has gone from 191,086th to 34th, according to data provided by Amazon.
Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on January 2 that his "challenge for 2015" was to read a new book every other week. He said The End of Power, the first book he'll read as part of the challenge, "explores how the world is shifting to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments, militaries and other organizations."
Naím, the former editor of Foreign Policy, told the Washington Post "I am as surprised as I am thrilled that Zuckerberg has created an opportunity to have my ideas aired on a global scale." The book was published in 2013 and garnered positive reviews and blurbs and was featured in Post's notable books list for that year.
Zuckerberg could join the ranks of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Oprah in generating massive sales through book endorsements. Last year, Jon Stewart praised The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism on his show, leading it to jump from 556 to 2 on Amazon.
Zuckerberg also also started a Facebook group for discussions of his book picks. It already has more than 167,000 likes.
23 Words For Book Lovers That Really Should Exist
New words for the people who love them.
A word for the smell of a new book.
Smells like freshness and adventures to be had.
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34 Reading Resolutions For 2015
Here’s to more books in the new year!
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2. Read all of the Harry Potter books.
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3. Read at least one book a month.
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4. Read at least one book a week.
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The "Little Critter" Children's Books As Told By James Joyce
Is Mercer Mayer’s beloved children’s character modeled after Joyce’s protagonist in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? You be the judge.
“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”
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"The artist, like the god of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”
Mercer Mayer
“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
Mercer Mayer
"He bore cynically with the shameful details of his secret riots in which he exulted to defile with patience whatever image had attracted his eyes. By day and by night he moved among distorted images of the outer world."
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14 Hilarious And Appropriately Swapped Book Titles
You can’t judge a book by it’s cover. But if you change it…
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