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2013-05-19 15:33:01 (4 comments, 12 reshares, 73 +1s)

#HarryPotter  

Some of us are still watching for the Owl Post. 

2013-05-19 15:29:46 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 67 +1s)

Bedtime stories.........

2013-05-17 21:03:33 (3 comments, 10 reshares, 25 +1s)

#FidoFriday  

When dogs dress up as Lord of the Rings characters:

http://www.pupstarsonoma.com/Pugstars_iDen/The_Pugs_of_Middle_Earth.html

2013-05-12 18:17:03 (159 comments, 343 reshares, 1404 +1s)

2013-05-07 21:10:59 (22 comments, 86 reshares, 262 +1s)

#TheGreatGatsby  

2013-04-18 20:46:16 (17 comments, 33 reshares, 91 +1s)

Priorities.

2013-04-13 01:11:43 (75 comments, 182 reshares, 542 +1s)

What time is it?

2013-04-07 11:34:54 (38 comments, 96 reshares, 420 +1s)

2013-04-03 21:17:22 (20 comments, 57 reshares, 187 +1s)

For the writers out there. 

2013-04-01 23:41:06 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 14 +1s)

If You've Read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, You May Be Interested In This Article

#ImmortalLifeOfHenriettaLacks #HeLa #NonFiction  

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-the-sequel.html?smid=go-share&_r=0

2013-03-29 00:41:10 (16 comments, 32 reshares, 170 +1s)

Look Guys, it's 50 Shades of Grain

#Punday  

2013-03-25 17:23:30 (240 comments, 350 reshares, 1770 +1s)

Malala Yousafzai Returned To School Recently- After Recovering From Being Shot In The Head By The Taliban For Going To School

Watch a video interview with her here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/malala-yousafzai-returns-to-school/2013/03/19/44ab741c-90d8-11e2-9173-7f87cda73b49_video.html

She has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her ordeal.

Plus this post support of her courage. Reshare in honor of her determination to get an education. Go Malala. You inspire us greatly.

#AmazingWomen  

2013-03-12 21:00:41 (8 comments, 28 reshares, 105 +1s)

Great News, BBC Sherlock Fans: It Should Be Back For Season 4

http://www.themarysue.com/sherlock-season-4/

2013-03-10 21:17:29 (202 comments, 449 reshares, 1494 +1s)

RIP, Perfect Book

I can never read you again for the first time.

#Reading  

2013-03-07 10:18:30 (68 comments, 228 reshares, 771 +1s)

A Very Clever Cover For Fahrenheit 451

It actually has a match embedded in the cover. We love the symbolism. 

#RayBradbury   #Classics   #Design  

2013-03-14 11:37:00 (48 comments, 130 reshares, 269 +1s)

The Very Hungry Cthulhupillar..... 

Sounds like an interesting read for Lovecraftian minded children. 

2013-03-02 00:04:03 (35 comments, 148 reshares, 340 +1s)

If you read a lot of mythology, you know this is true. 

#Mythology   #PieCharts   #Humor  

2013-02-27 21:03:12 (14 comments, 33 reshares, 158 +1s)

People also like to ask if they can be in my book. I always tell them yes but that they first have to pick one option from each of the following character categories: hero or villain; living or dead; naked or dressed. Far and away, the most popular choice is dead, naked villain, which can make for a great ending. 

2013-02-27 20:44:35 (264 comments, 201 reshares, 1094 +1s)

The Amazing Book Tower In The Corner

2013-02-24 00:53:12 (39 comments, 28 reshares, 145 +1s)

There's Nothing Like Curling Up With A Good Book At Night

Do you have a current night time read? 

2013-02-23 08:41:30 (55 comments, 25 reshares, 96 +1s)

Caution: Fire At the Gates!

What's your favorite fantasy dragon? From what series? 

#TheHobbit   #dragonridersofpern   #GeorgeRRMartin   #HarryPotter  

2013-02-21 19:40:19 (99 comments, 132 reshares, 795 +1s)

There's something very magical about reading. 

Hoping you have found that right book for you, currently. 

2013-04-26 06:03:02 (107 comments, 312 reshares, 854 +1s)

We hope you all had a very happy #ValentinesDay  

This is one of our favorite quotes from #HarryPotter  about love. 

2013-02-13 18:13:50 (61 comments, 35 reshares, 179 +1s)

Would You Go On A Blind Date With A Good Book?

The public library in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has wrapped up some great books, with hearts on the covers of the wrapping. They do have one request- that you take the books home before unwrapping them and give them a fair and open mind before opening and reading.

Would you try it? 

2013-02-13 05:53:03 (1 comments, 11 reshares, 40 +1s)

Happy Darwin Day

Well, the Science Lab took a holiday and spent the day at the +Denver Museum of Nature & Science. No better way to celebrate #DarwinDay .

The reason it's Darwin Day is to celebrate the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth on February 12, 1809. Darwin wrote "On the Origin of Species," explaining evolution and natural selection. You can download "On the Origin of Species" for free, as it's in the public domain. Get it here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1228

We decided to give you this Charles Darwin themed Valentine... with an evolutionary pun in there. Print this up and give it to your sweetheart for #ValentinesDay  if you want a laugh. 

2013-02-12 00:54:00 (103 comments, 157 reshares, 774 +1s)

For the addicts in the house. 

2013-02-11 04:20:08 (4 comments, 9 reshares, 42 +1s)

10 STIR
20 ROTATE BOWL
30 GOTO 10

2013-02-08 15:41:01 (2 comments, 14 reshares, 34 +1s)

Here's a Cool Start Up Idea Designed To Keep Your Novels From Ever Ending

In 2005, Valla Vakili fell in love with a French crime novel. He was so fascinated by “Total Chaos” and its antihero, a hard-drinking detective from the slums of Marseille, that he rerouted a planned vacation through that city, which is France’s second-largest. There he immersed himself in the character’s world.

“I ate some of the same food, drank some of the same wine,” said Mr. Vakili, a former Yahoo executive. “I felt like I was continuing the experience of the book, and it was pretty awesome.”

The adventure drove him to create Small Demons, a literary search engine that appeared online two years ago. Small Demons catalogs and cross-indexes the people, places and things that appear in books, encouraging readers to explore a world Mr. Vakili calls “the storyverse.”Browsing Small Demo... more »

2013-02-08 13:33:48 (17 comments, 48 reshares, 151 +1s)

#FidoFriday  

Apparently this pup likes to read. 

2013-02-08 15:37:24 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 24 +1s)

A Medical Mystery: "True" vs "False" Croup

This recent post in the New York Times, about how scarlet fever was probably not the cause of the disease which blinded Mary Ingalls in the “Little House on the Prairie” book series got me thinking. You can find the post here: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/scarlet-fever-probably-didnt-blind-mary-ingalls/  

There’s another medical mystery in another historical young adult series of books that’s had me fascinated for a long time too, so I decided to do some investigating of my own.

In the “Anne of Green Gables” series of books by L. M. Montgomery, the final book, “Rilla of Ingleside” describes Anne’s youngest daughter, Rilla, taking care of an orphaned baby during a snowstorm. During the snowstorm, she and another woman are stranded in their farmhouse during World War I.The orphaned baby ... more »

2013-02-05 07:39:08 (2 comments, 7 reshares, 27 +1s)

Did Mary Ingalls Really Go Blind From Scarlet Fever? Probably Not.

Some modern day doctors go over the evidence. An excellent post. For years it has been attributed to scarlet fever, but it was most likely viral meningoencephalitis. More details in post. 

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/scarlet-fever-probably-didnt-blind-mary-ingalls/

2013-01-30 21:48:58 (6 comments, 38 reshares, 58 +1s)

Game of Thrones/Downton Abbey Theme Mashup

#GameofThrones   #DowntonAbbey  

Plus if you listen closely you can hear a direwolf howling at the end. 

http://youtu.be/NB90NwpTfhI

2013-01-31 06:53:53 (183 comments, 607 reshares, 1825 +1s)

I Subconsciously Read More Slowly As I Approach The End Of A Really Good Book

2013-01-29 20:10:29 (19 comments, 36 reshares, 175 +1s)

Beautiful Doorway of Floating Books

2013-01-20 07:32:54 (110 comments, 292 reshares, 716 +1s)

2013-01-16 05:12:22 (469 comments, 583 reshares, 2516 +1s)

Amazing Igloo Made Entirely Out Of Books

2013-01-13 21:48:13 (3 comments, 9 reshares, 57 +1s)

Chilling truth from a 20 year old comic, ostensibly for children. It questions the always unquestioned call for continued economic growth as the solution for every economic problem even though it is clearly unsustainable:

2013-01-13 02:46:01 (39 comments, 42 reshares, 67 +1s)

Shocking Allegations Of Animal Neglect From The Hobbit Set

According to a report by the Associated Press, animal wranglers hired to oversee some 150 animals used in the films say 27 of them died because they were housed on a treacherous farm full of “death traps,” including bluffs, sinkholes and jagged fencing. The dead include a miniature pony called Rainbow, hired as a hobbit horse, who crashed off a bank on the farm and broke his back. When the wrangler found him in the morning, he was still alive, and later had to be euthanized.

The other dead animals include a horse named Claire (found with her head in a stream after toppling off a bluff), six goats, six sheep and a dozen chickens that were reportedly torn apart by dogs on two different occasions. Two other horses, Molly and Doofus, got caught in fencing and ripped their legs open, suffering significant injuries.<... more »

2013-01-09 20:32:48 (1 comments, 19 reshares, 21 +1s)

George R.R. Martin has a new Winds of Winter preview chapter up

It's about Arianne and Dorne, and although it's official and will be published by Bantam in 2013, the site looks a little fan-fiction in design. But rest assured; it's the real thing. We don't know how long it will be up, so if you are a G.R.R. Martin fan, we recommend reading it now. 

#GameofThrones   #GeorgeRRMartin  

http://www.georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html

2013-01-09 05:09:31 (3 comments, 16 reshares, 29 +1s)

Artemis Fowl Author To Write New Doctor Who Story

Doctor Who is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013. Eoin Colfer, the author of the Artemis Fowl series, if the first confirmed author who will be writing a new Dr. Who story this year. There are rumors that J.K. Rowling has been approached to write another. 

#DrWho  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/20943058

2013-01-08 20:45:28 (10 comments, 43 reshares, 112 +1s)

#DrWho  

2013-01-05 07:35:30 (6 comments, 17 reshares, 37 +1s)

The Never Ending Debate About Irene Adler

An excellent essay. What are your thoughts?

#Sherlock   #BBC   #SherlockHolmes  

http://io9.com/5972417/why-cant-any-recent-sherlock-holmes-adaptation-get-irene-adler-right?popular=true

2013-01-04 01:18:53 (14 comments, 55 reshares, 212 +1s)

The Secret Bookcase

2012-12-28 04:37:14 (25 comments, 186 reshares, 360 +1s)

HTML For Babies

http://www.amazon.com/HTML-Babies-Web-Design-Volume/dp/0615487661  

(Hilarious reviews.)

2012-12-19 01:44:52 (33 comments, 57 reshares, 194 +1s)

2012-12-13 06:27:03 (14 comments, 143 reshares, 261 +1s)

2012-12-18 21:47:31 (10 comments, 96 reshares, 166 +1s)

2012-12-07 03:12:32 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 35 +1s)

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