Sharing a fun round up of my 20 Top books of the past 10 years. So many good books!

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Winterson's award-winning novel is the story of a girl adopted by working-class evangelists in the North of England in the 1960′s – and leaves at the age of 16 for the woman she loves. The book (and subsequent BBC mini series) are loosely based on Winterson's actual life in Accrington, Lancashire. While the story is written in first person, Winterson claims the story "isn't autobiography in the real sense."A parallel account of her life at this time is given in her 2011 memoir, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? which is also a must read.Get a copy here.

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What makes it challenging: There are multiple narrators throughout the novel's nine chapters and various subdivisions, but it's never clear who is speaking. (There are some clues. Good luck with that.) With the point of view changes, there are also confusing shifts in place and time.Excerpt: "Of course you don’t want me to be stupid, bless you! you only want to make sure you’re intelligent. You don’t want me to commit suicide; you only want me to be gratefully aware of my dependency. You don’t want me to despise myself; you only want the flattering deference to you that you consider a spontaneous tribute to your natural qualities."

I'm on 153 ep of The Magnus Archives, it's safe to assume that I'm addicted at this point. I started drawing cards for each Entities, The Buried being first. I actually have rough sketches for all of...

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Discovery what a contagonist is and why your story definately needs one. All the markings of a killer contagonist to take your story to the next level.

It’s October, which means everything is now officially just a little bit spookier—and I’m not only talking about your Twitter handles. To celebrate the season, please enjoy this collect…

On January 14, 1963, poet Sylvia Plath published her first novel in England under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas.” The book had a positive but relatively quiet reception; only a few week…

This lady (bluntly & hilariously) says all the things we wish we could say.

Are the books seen or referenced in Season 6 of the hit television series Lost giving us clues to the future of the island's inhabitants? See what's on Sawyer's bookshelf and the other books that have made an appearance on the final season of Lost.

Writer Ruth Pavey uprooted from her desk-bound life in London to explore the infinite possibilities of being outdoors. In her new book she shares the challenges of planting trees.

Tell someone they annoy you with this beautiful, sarcastic cross stitch pattern. "There are over 1,030,000 words in the English language, but I could never string enough of them together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair." Finished Size: 180 st x 180 st (10" square on 18 ct aida) * Colours: 8 Number of pages: 7 Notice: • You will receive a .zip file with three types of file: PDF, CHART, and TXT. • There are instructions in the README for how to get programs to read the other files. • This is a digital purchase and no physical product will be mailed. • My patterns are not for commercial use. Resale of my patterns is prohibited. • Kits and printed charts are available. Please contact me • For personal use only! • Due to the nature of instant downloadable products, refunds will not be given after purchase. If you have any problems with your product, please let me know as soon as possible

The 10 books highlighted here may not be the very best novels written about World War II. But they are the best ones I’ve read and reviewed since January

This modern magnet is from the Princess and the Pea fairy tale. In it a princess was tested by a Queen who wanted to be sure she was suitable to marry her son, so she made her sleep on a bed with twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds, under which she hid a small pea. The princess slept badly all night, tossing and turning, because her skin was so delicate and she could feel the pea as if it were as big as a boulder! It is a reproduction based on a vintage book illustration by artist Edmund Dulac, from the book Stories from Hans Anderson. The image will have a colored border applied, with the image centered in the magnet and a white border around it, as shown in the samples picture. Please note that vintage image sizes vary, and sizes are approximate. Our images cover the entire surface of the magnet, they haven't been laminated, but printed right onto magnetic stock. So there's no chance of the magnet coming off or breaking free of the image. These magnets may seem thin, but they're strong! They'll hold at least three 8.5 x 11" sheets of paper. Magnets adhere to ferrous surfaces with iron only. Our magnets will not stick to some stainless steel appliances, nor to brass, aluminum, copper or tin. We make our magnets from vintage images from our personal collection (we've been collecting ephemera for over 40 years.) We scan the originals, and then clean and repair the damage that time has done to the original using Photoshop. We then print them using a high resolution printer at 300 DPI. The resulting magnet is deeply saturated, and guaranteed to please. Stock: 20 ml glossy magnetized paper. Size: Approx. 2.5 x 3.5" Shape: Rectangular (not die cut) Note any watermark showing is on the scan only, not the item itself. All images and design elements are protected by copyright. Copyright is not transferable with the sale of this product. The buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights.

Whether you're a Swords and Sorcery type of fantasy reader, a fan of battles and betrayal, or you just want a few more goddamn elves in your life, there's something for you here. These are the truly great fantasy series written in the last 50 years.

To bookworms out there, it's time to monetize your love for reading books. I've written 10 ways on how you can get paid to read books!

To give your characters some texture and make them feel more realistic, consider balancing their virtues with a sprinkle of toxicity.

It's the 20 year anniversary of the premiere of The Nanny. Oy vey.

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Are you wondering what the best World War II Books for middle schoolers are? Today I am sharing all of the wonderful books we discovered as we dove into World War II.

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Whether you’re looking for deep meaning or abundant corn-based frights, the best folk horror books are here for you this spooky season.

This Sunday is the 55th anniversary of the publication of Sylvia Plath’s first and only novel, The Bell Jar, which seems as good an excuse as any to revisit it. Or at least the front of it, a…

If you want the best of the best, these five star books won't disappoint. Here are 50 of the all-time favorite books to read.

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"Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy." --Portland Book Review "An absorbing and unnerving read . . . this book demands to be finished in one sitting." --Booklist Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on Drugs. Five million copies later, Go Ask Alice remains a divisive bestseller, outraging censors and earning new fans, all of them drawn by the book's mythic premise: A Real Diary, by Anonymous. But Alice was only the beginning. In 1979, another diary rattled the culture, setting the stage for a national meltdown. The posthumous memoir of an alleged teenage Satanist, Jay's Journal merged with a frightening new crisis--adolescent suicide--to create a literal witch hunt, shattering countless lives and poisoning whole communities. In reality, Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal came from the same dark place: Beatrice Sparks, a serial con artist who betrayed a grieving family, stole a dead boy's memory, and lied her way to the National Book Awards. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries is a true story of contagious deception. It stretches from Hollywood to Quantico, and passes through a tiny patch of Utah nicknamed "the fraud capital of America." It's the story of a doomed romance and a vengeful celebrity. Of a lazy press and a public mob. Of two suicidal teenagers, and their exploitation by a literary vampire. Unmask Alice . . . where truth is stranger than nonfiction. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781637740422 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: BenBella Books - Inc. Publication Date: 07-05-2022 Pages: 384 Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)About the Author Rick Emerson is a longtime radio and television broadcaster, the former host of the nationally-syndicated Rick Emerson Show, and the coauthor (with Lisa Desjardins) of Zombie Economics: A Guide to Personal Finance. He's a regular guest on America's finer podcasts, and can be seen in occasional television roles and a truly dreadful commercial for tires. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his two dogs, Willard and Philo.What People are Saying What People are Saying About This From the Publisher "Emerson’s writing is smart . . . keeping readers engaged across an otherwise complex web of deceit." —Observer "Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands. The investigation into the work of Beatrice Sparks and her bibliography is intriguing and worth reading. Her motives were questionable, her history suspect, her subjects tragic, but this book is undeniably buzzworthy." —Portland Book Review "An absorbing and unnerving read about how one conniving con artist’s unquenchable thirst for acclaim fooled the publishing world and fed two cultural panics with lasting fallout, this book demands to be finished in one sitting."  —Booklist Show More Table of Contents Table of Contents Author's Note, Part One xiii Prologue: The Pretender 1 Part 1 About a Girl 3 Part 2 The Boy Who Died 95 Part 3 Gods and Monsters 181 Part 4 Contagion 225 Part 5 Shine a Light 287 Epilogue: After Forever 341 Author's Note, Part Two 351 Appendix 359 Acknowledgments 363 Photo Credits 365 Show More

So you want to become a Nutritarian? You’ve read one of Dr. Fuhrman’s books and you know what the 6 week Aggressive Weight Loss plan entails. Get ready for week #1! This first week was all about survival and acceptance. I’m happy to report that when I weighed myself this morning I had lost 7 ...

"I live in two worlds, one is a world of books." According to Australian writer Patrick Lenton, these are all the books that were mentioned in the entire Gilmore Girls series.

Doerr's characters in this World War II novel are fascinating and altogether unexpected. The book’s setting couldn’t be lovelier: much of the action takes place in Saint-Malo, France, a unique walled port city on the English Channel. Haunting story, beautiful prose, and entirely deserving of it

Sometimes you need a good cry, and there's nothing wrong with that. So here are our favorite sad YA books perfect for unleashing that ugly cry every time.

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From Don Quixote to American Pastoral, take a look at the 100 greatest novels of all time