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Best In Entertainment: 11/10–11/16

Get ready: Every Sunday, Literally, Darling will be bringing you “Best In Entertainment,” where you’ll find links…

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NaNoWriMo—Challenges For The Carefree

National Novel Writing Month, known to most people as November and sometimes better known as…

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How Books Saved My Life

By Lindsey Collins There is a term (a legitimate medical term), called bibliotherapy, and I…

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Read The Book Before You See The Movie: “Ender’s Game”

There is an exception to every rule. I hate the sci-fi genre. I hate dystopian…

The Origins Of “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow”

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving is one of the most well-known and…

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Favorite Fictional Female Role Models

Who says all our role models have to be real? Books, movies, and TV shows…

Why Daisy Buchanan Sucks And We Should Start Imagining People Complexly

The summer of “Gatsby” is finally over. At least, the sheer amount of “OMG reading…

White Savior Or Woman Warrior?

When I finished Mindy Budgor’s article in The Guardian, it left a bitter taste in my…

5 Books To Read In October (And The Candy To Go With Them)

Hello, darlings. I wrote an article once about the five books to read for summer…

Are We Any Smarter?

I posted this article a couple of weeks ago as a little reminder that we’re…

Fantastic Beasts and What You Need To Know

Yesterday, Warner Brothers and J.K. Rowling announced a film inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where…

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It’s All Literature (with a Capital “L”) to Me

By Lindsey Collins Before I get into my point, there are a few things you…

On Kindness And Libraries

“Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and no future.” —Ray Bradbury It…

Literally Links #6: Our Favorite Corners of the Internet

Happy Sunday, darlings! Now that Webster’s has redefined the word literally, we’re excited to wish…

Unschooling the Educational System

        Please, watch this video. Has this become the way of the…

Jurassic Park, as told by Tumblr

For the second installment of “As told by Tumblr,” I look to a great piece…

Vampires and Why We Love Them

Whenever I talk about vampires, I generally get one of two reactions. One of them…

Pride & Prejudice, as told by Tumblr

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single millennial in possession of too much…

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The Epic List of Bromances

It’s hard to find a more enjoyable dynamic to watch or read than the epic…

Leave Your Books in Your Suitcase

In the spring and summer time, countless lists online and in magazines recommend what constitutes…