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TOP 10 FRUSTRATING PROTAGONISTS

It's always a shame when you're reading a book and you're enjoying the story but you can't help but daydream about strangling the protagonist . For all the story's otherwise good facets, the protagonist's lack of any  redeeming qualities puts you in a stabby mood. (Is that just us? Moving on.)…

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TOP 10 UNREAD BOOKS LIVING ON MY SHELF THE LONGEST

It's common knowledge that a bookworm tends to go a bit mental when they go book shopping. Impulse buys, having some extra cash to treat yourself or just reading the back of books and being intrigued. Sadly, it's also common knowledge that books get forgotten. They're abandoned, left there to gather dust …

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BOOK REVIEW: MAP OF THE STARS BY JEN MALONE

Author Jen Malone draws on her real-life experiences as a movie studio publicist to bring you an insider peek at love, Hollywood-style.  The California dream was supposed to give seventeen-year-old Annie Shelton a fresh start far removed from her dad’s unusual betrayal. But when things don’t go according to plan…

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TOP 10 LITERARY TROPES WE LIKE

As TvTropes will be quick to inform you - not all tropes are bad. This is due in part to our differing opinions on what we like and dislike to see in a narrative, and in part to the fact that absolutely everything is considered a trope nowadays . A Lawful Good protagonist - trope. An ambi guous protagonist - trope. A…

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TOP 10 BOOKISH DELIGHTS

Let's face it: being a devoted reader is mostly a joy (when it isn't soul-crushing sadness and blinding rage, that is). If it weren't, we wouldn't be doing it - or we might, in a completely masochistic sort of way, but even then we wouldn't shriek about it as loudly as we do. We fall in love wit…

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