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In Defense of Daisy Buchanan
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27 of the Funniest Literary Memes on Twitter
It’s tough out there in the world. College is expensive, the ocean is hot, and Netflix is putting out shows faster than I can watch them. (I know that third thing pales utterly in comparison …
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In Defense of Daisy Buchanan
I’m not going to look you in the eye and tell you that Daisy is great, because she’s not. She is an unlikeable character by all accounts. She makes a TRUCK TON of mistakes and …
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QUIZ: What’s Your Homeric Epithet?
If you were a character in Greek mythology, odds are Homer called you “lion-hearted Achilles” or “Ares, sacker of cities” or “Hector, breaker of horses” at least once every three sentences. And if you are …
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Classic Novels Summed Up in The Onion-Style Headlines
Few things in life are funnier to me than when someone takes a headline from The Onion and Photoshops it onto a still of a TV show or movie. That gets me every time. I …
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5 Famous Books Whose Original Titles Would Have Changed Everything
Much like doing a cartwheel or correctly saying the word “anemone,” coming up with a title for your book is just one of those things you have to try a few times before you get …
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7 Disturbing Details from Classic Novels (That You Probably Don’t Remember)
Classic novels do this thing where they spend paragraph after paragraph describing the misty moors, or the history of Paris, or how there’s a storm coming that symbolizes the protagonist’s inner turmoil. But then they …
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You Can Now Read The Odyssey, Pride & Prejudice, and Jane Eyre FREE On SparkNotes!
FANTASTIC NEWS, FELLOW NERDS: Starting right now, you can read the ENTIRE TEXT of Pride and Prejudice, The Odyssey, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre without ever leaving our site! The best part? The books are …
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QUIZ: How Would You Die in Greek Mythology?
I always figured I knew how I would die in Greek mythology (rejected, lovelorn, pecked to death by an eagle who is also somehow my father). But that was before I realized just how many ways …
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The 6 Most Unreliable Narrators in Literature
When you’re reading a book, you like to think you can trust the person who’s telling the story, but the reality is sometimes you can’t. Sometimes what you get instead is a garbled series of …
Everything YA Literature Lied to Me About
I was raised on a steady diet of Mountain Dew and young adult literature. From the ages of 12 to 17, I’m pretty sure I read virtually nothing outside the YA genre besides Beowulf (my required reading) …