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Stephen King has been scaring the spit out of us for half a century now. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, “Carrie,” the scalding tale of a teenage girl whose pyrotechnic powers are provoked by high school cruelty. Since then, King, 76, has published more than 70 bestselling books of fiction, sometimes as many as three in one year, dozens of which have become movies or TV series. He’s conjured up our chills with small-town vampires, haunted hotels, possessed cars, revenant pets — much of the success of his fiction grows from his ability to anchor horro...
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Stephen King has been scaring the spit out of us for half a century now. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, “Carrie,” the scalding tale of a teenage girl whose pyrotechnic powers are provoked by high school cruelty. Since then, King, 76, has published more than 70 bestselling books of fiction, sometimes as many as three in one year, dozens of which have become movies or TV series. He’s conjured up our chills with small-town vampires, haunted hotels, possessed cars, revenant pets — much of the success of his fiction grows from his ability to anchor horro...
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How many books are collecting dust on your shelf, waiting for the day when you finally have time for them? If you can't see yourself reading them any time soon, then you may prefer this option: cheat and read summaries instead. Blinkist summarizes the key messages from books into 15 minutes of reading time. The app's library contains more than 4,000 titles in English in 27 categories, including health, culture, economics, love, sex and technology. If you don't find the right book for you, you can enter the desired title in the search bar and make your own suggestion to the curator team. Around...
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How many books are collecting dust on your shelf, waiting for the day when you finally have time for them? If you can't see yourself reading them any time soon, then you may prefer this option: cheat and read summaries instead. Blinkist summarizes the key messages from books into 15 minutes of reading time. The app's library contains more than 4,000 titles in English in 27 categories, including health, culture, economics, love, sex and technology. If you don't find the right book for you, you can enter the desired title in the search bar and make your own suggestion to the curator team. Around...
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Mr Fib and Little Miss Surprise are the latest characters to join the "Mr Men & Little Miss" children’s book series, it has been announced. The two new stories will be published on September 12, more than 50 years after Mr Tickle, the first Mr Men book, was released in 1971. The series was conceived by cartoonist and illustrator Roger Hargreaves, who died in 1988, and has been continued by his son Adam, who has added new characters to the collection. Mr Fib fibs to impress people, but his fibs are getting bigger and bigger, and one day he goes too far and his friends are upset, according to pu...
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Mr Fib and Little Miss Surprise are the latest characters to join the "Mr Men & Little Miss" children’s book series, it has been announced. The two new stories will be published on September 12, more than 50 years after Mr Tickle, the first Mr Men book, was released in 1971. The series was conceived by cartoonist and illustrator Roger Hargreaves, who died in 1988, and has been continued by his son Adam, who has added new characters to the collection. Mr Fib fibs to impress people, but his fibs are getting bigger and bigger, and one day he goes too far and his friends are upset, according to pu...
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Stephen King, author of some 40 terrifying novels plus more than 100 short stories, novellas, screenplays, poems, essays, columns and non-fiction books. But in the epilogue to his latest book, King says he still doesn't really understand the act of writing. Sometimes he sees the words in front of him before he writes them - every dot, every comma. "I don’t even understand why people need stories, or why I - among many others - feel the need to write them. All I know is that the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind and bonding with people who don’t exist seems to be a part of...
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Stephen King, author of some 40 terrifying novels plus more than 100 short stories, novellas, screenplays, poems, essays, columns and non-fiction books. But in the epilogue to his latest book, King says he still doesn't really understand the act of writing. Sometimes he sees the words in front of him before he writes them - every dot, every comma. "I don’t even understand why people need stories, or why I - among many others - feel the need to write them. All I know is that the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind and bonding with people who don’t exist seems to be a part of...
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The headquarters of the Cervantes Institute, a global non-profit promoting the Spanish language and culture named after the "Don Quixote" writer, has been housed in the Caryatid Building since 2006. It was originally constructed in the early years of the 20th century as the grand bank for Banco Español del Río de la Plata on the historic Alcalá street in central Madrid. Today, the original bank vault has been renamed the “Caja de las Letras” and it contains countless treasures, more literary than literal. Rediscovered Caravaggio masterpiece goes on show in Madrid's Prado museumIs it happening ...
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The Gabriel García Library is no ordinary library. From the outside it looks like a huge, white stack of books and that is precisely the idea at the self-styled ‘Cathedral of books.’ Inside, the red spruce finish throughout gives it a clean, airy, feel which helps make it seem like a pleasant place to enjoy books. On the fourth floor, a huge window opens to reveal a large wall of vegetation outside. One woman is sprawled in a hammock enjoying a book, while a child is lolling in a big round straw seat, engrossed in a picture book. It more resembles a beach scene in a holiday resort, than a libr...
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