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12Dec

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Grow Up: Time To Give Up Your YA Books

Tired of my Tumblr dashboard being drowned under pictures of immaculate shelves stocked with YA novels and neatly piled Harry Potter books between a Macbook slim and a Starbucks cup, I thought I would come out of my Nerdcave and see what the hype was all about. I started with the preconceived idea that Young Adult literature was just another trend, followed by naive teenagers with a particular taste for soppy rubbish. I ended with the confirmed idea that YA literature was just another trend followed by lazy adults who take pleasure in remaining birdbrained. To begin with the beginning, what on earth is a Yong Adult? Even to that pretty simple question, there is not one settled answer. According to book publishers, is considered a young adult anyone between 12 and 18. Funny, I consider 12...

19Feb

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TikTok Marketing 101

When pop feeling Taylor Swift introduced her single"Me" in April 2019, the tune went viral instantly. It Includes Brenden Urie of Stress! At The Disco and the music, the movie is among the both of them dancing and singing at a kaleidoscope of light colors. Soon after the launch, Swift's TikTok accounts posted a clip in the movie using all the Hashtag, #AnotherLikeMe, and it is a lyric in the song. "Show us the very best re-creation of the dancing, utilize MEdancechallenge, and we'll locate our favs," the accounts posted. A week after, #AnotherLikeMe had obtained more than 3 million viewpoints. Also, #Medancechallenge had obtained over 500,000 perspectives on TikTok. It ended up being a promotion triumph for Swift. If you are not sure yet why and how to adopt this humorous and irreverent ...

The Water Dancer: A Potent Book About America’s Most Disgraceful Sin

12Feb

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The Water Dancer: A Potent Book About America’s Most Disgraceful Sin

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. “This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco Chronicle NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • Paste • Town & Country • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal “Nearly every paragraph is laced through with dense, gorgeously evocative descriptions of a vanished wor...

Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents – An Instant American Classic And Nonfiction Book Of The American Century Thus Far

12Feb

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Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents – An Instant American Classic And Nonfiction Book Of The American Century Thus Far

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. NAMED THE #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People • The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Bloomberg • Christian Science Monitor • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Fortune • Smithso...

The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in): A Magnificent Tour De Force Chronicling A Young Slave’s Adventures As She Makes A Desperate Bid For Freedom

12Feb

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The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in): A Magnificent Tour De Force Chronicling A Young Slave’s Adventures As She Makes A Desperate Bid For Freedom

Publisher Description Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to ...

From James McBride Comes One Of The Most Celebrated Novels Of The Year

20Jan

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From James McBride Comes One Of The Most Celebrated Novels Of The Year

Oprah's Book Club Pick - A New York Times Bestseller - One of The New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year - A Washington Post Notable Novel - One of TIME Magazine's Ten Best Novels of the Year From the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride’s funny, movi...

Pulitzer Winner Richard Powers’ Gorgeous Novel About The Relationship Between A Father And Son

20Jan

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Pulitzer Winner Richard Powers’ Gorgeous Novel About The Relationship Between A Father And Son

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Long-listed for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Over-story. I never believed the diagnoses the doctors settled on my son. When a condition gets three different names over as many decades, when it goes from non-existent to the country's most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in one generation, when two different physicians want to prescribe three different medications, there's something wrong.... Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin,...

20Jan

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The Only Word For This Book Is Sublime

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER• A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD “Quietly powerful [and] moving.” O, The Oprah Magazine (recommended reading) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part. Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. In the words of Kirkus, it is a novel "as big as a nation, as ...

Twilight Fashion Guide For Men – The Jacob Black Look

15Jan

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FASHION STYLE & BEAUTY

Twilight Fashion Guide For Men – The Jacob Black Look

Which team do you vote for - Edward or Jacob? The audiences seem split down the middle on favoring the vampires or the werewolves. For the werewolf pack, it's easier than you think to get that Jacob Black-look. Werewolf Style The existence of the Twilight werewolf rests solely on the close proximity of their mortal enemy, the vampire. With vampires running around everywhere in the tiny town of Forks, the werewolves must have easy to wear clothing. Each time they turn into a werewolf, they destroy the clothing they were wearing at the moment of transformation. Due to these constant changes, it is essential to have inexpensive replacements on hand to dress into once they become human again. Jeans For Jacob Black's character, classic blue jeans with a slim to relaxed fit is essential. For...

10Dec

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TECH

The Selfie Culture

In the modern life, it is fashionable to name the latest trends and technologies with short and crisp words such as SciFi, HiFi and WiFi. The latest addition is the Selfie, which is a photograph of the self, taken by the photographer. It can be taken with a handheld digital camera or tablet or smartphone. Special sticks or stands to hold the smartphones are now available to facilitate better photos without the help of a third person. Selfies are often used for sharing on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Most of the selfies are taken with a camera held at arm's length without a self-timer. In olden days, people used to photograph the self by uncovering the lens of the camera and running into the shot. Another method was to position the camera on a nearby object or on a ...