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Everything I Know About Dating, I Learned from Romeo and Juliet
QUIZ: Is This College Class Real or Fake?
How to Tell If You’re Dating a Plot Device
QUIZ: Is This College Class Real or Fake?
QUIZ: What’s the Literary Theme of Your Life?
QUIZ: Can You Guess the Book from a Bad One-Sentence Summary?
QUIZ: Is This Minor Character from Shakespeare, or a Minor Character from Harry Potter?
QUIZ: How Dateable Would You Be in the 19th Century?
Pick a Fictional Setting and We’ll Tell You Where You Should Live in Real Life
QUIZ: Is This a Lana Del Rey Lyric or a Quote from The Great Gatsby?
QUIZ: Which Type of Person Are You in Group Projects?
classic lit
17 Creepy Quotes from Literature That Will Give You Chills
Some people enjoy being spooked, but me? I only like to be sort of spooked. You know, semi-spooked. Just barely spooked. I won’t, for example, watch a scary movie, but I WILL read the summary …
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Everything I Know About Dating, I Learned from Romeo and Juliet
People will say, “But Elodie, Romeo and Juliet was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a romantic how-to guide.” And I hear you. I do. But how do you explain the fact that I …
college 101
QUIZ: Is This College Class Real or Fake?
College is amazing—not just because you get to wear sweatpants for four glorious years, but also because you can take classes called things like “Wasting Time on the Internet” or “The Joy or Garbage” and …
classic lit
How to Tell If You’re Dating a Plot Device
Dating can be pretty dicey. Sometimes your significant other turns out to be a jerk, or a nutjob, or a plot mechanism specifically devised to move the story forward. Now, those first two things are …
classic lit
6 Literary Characters Who Don’t Deserve All the Hate That They Get
There are many characters in books who DESERVE our unbridled hatred. For instance, I don’t think you’ll find a single person who is like “I get it, Dolores Umbridge had her flaws, but don’t we all?” …
classic lit
7 Scenes from Novels That Were Too Disturbing for the Movie Adaptation
Sometimes, filmmakers leave stuff out of the movie because there simply isn’t enough time to include everything that happened in the book. But other times, filmmakers leave stuff out of the movie because the stuff they’re leaving …
book related
QUIZ: What’s the Literary Theme of Your Life?
Have you ever been frustrated with the “phoniness” of people in your life? Have you ever been referred to as “tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me” by that cute, brooding guy in your …
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The Harry Potter Books, Summed Up in Pie Charts
Odds are you will never be asked to describe the Harry Potter books. This is mostly because everyone already knows what they are, and anyone who DOESN’T is very likely a space alien, which presents …
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QUIZ: Can You Guess the Book from a Bad One-Sentence Summary?
We get it. You know books. You know them by their first sentence, by their last sentence, probably by their fourth sentence of the seventh paragraph in the twenty-eighth chapter. But do you know them by …
classic lit
The 7 Biggest Overreactions in All of Literature
Characters in classic literature are good at many things, including but not limited to eating stale bread, wearing corsets, and dying of consumption. Yet there is one thing they do so well as to render …