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QUIZ: What Does the Foreshadowing in Your Life Say About You?
Have you ever found yourself facing various portents of doom—inexplicable fog, ominous church bells, a couple of hellhounds—and wondered what it all meant? I know I certainly have. I’ve actually had my destruction foretold by …
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Women in Shakespeare, Ranked by How Likely They’d Be to Murder You
All the characters in Shakespeare’s plays exist on a sliding scale of “has never thought about murder even once” to “IS JUST MURDERING PEOPLE, CONSTANTLY AND WITH GREAT FEELING, LIKE IT’S THEIR JOB.” This is …
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20 of the Most Unforgettable Last Lines in Books
There’s a difference between thinking “Well, that was a book,” and thinking, “Man, that was a book,” and it all depends on the last sentence. Some final lines are just that—final lines—while others are life-changing …
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QUIZ: Can You Guess the Book from the One-Star Review?
One-star reviews are the best thing in the world to me because most of them give off this frantic energy, this unhinged sense of purpose. “I must yell about this book online or I’ll DIE,” …
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QUIZ: Which Book Genre is Your Life?
Is your life a romance? Is it a horror novel? Is it a dystopian cyberpunk spy thriller? Only this quiz will tell.
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5 of the Most Brutal Insults in All of Shakespeare
Look, I get it. On the surface, Shakespeare’s works might seem difficult. Some of them are quite sad. People die. But beneath all that fancy jargon and easily preventable tragedy, it’s just one glorious verbal smackdown after …
Every Marvel Movie Summed Up in a Single Sentence
I keep telling myself I will watch all the movies in the MCU, and then I continue not doing that. This has been going on for several years now. I told myself I would watch …
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5 Classic Novel Retellings Written by Black Authors
In my own personal opinion, there are too many James Patterson novels and not nearly enough retellings of classic novels in which Hamlet is a modern-day theater kid just riddled with teenage angst. Plenty of …
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QUIZ: Is This a Tolkien Character, or Something My Cat Typed When She Walked Across the Keyboard?
Tolkien was obsessed with languages and loved nothing more than inventing new ones. In fact, he was still developing the history and complexities of the Elvish language Quenya right up until his death. Given this …