Amazon.com has released the results of their “Top 100 Harry-est Towns in America” contest, and 12 cities in Georgia are on the list. Gwinnett County, focus of recent controversy over the books, is home to 5 of them. The contest was based on the number of pre-orders per capita that Amazon received for the seventh ...
Tennessee has one of the most famous ghost stories of all time. Adams, Tennessee is where the Bell Witch named “Kate” supposedly haunted people. It is such a popular story that movies have been made about is, including the recent “An American Haunting”. Memphis, Tennessee also has its fair share of haunted places and ghost ...
Stephen King’s novel “The Cell” and “Hostel” director Eli Roth. Two masters of the horror genre coming together to produce what could possibly be the next great “zombie” film since 28 Days Later. If you’re a horror movie fan like me, then chances are you were also at one point, if not still, a Stephen ...
It is well known that the mayan calendar says that the world is going to end on Dec. 21st, 22nd, or 23rd (there is some debate about which day), but does it really say that? Or does it say something else entirely? For the purposes of this article, I will refer to december 21, 22, ...
Salman Rushdie’s Shame would seem to promote female activism toward gender equality in Pakistan if only through interpretation of Sufiya’s violence against male oppressors. When one considers the methods which Rushdie pushes readers to understand women within Pakistan, Shame more clearly promotes a Western perspective of hopelessly oppressed Pakistani women. As Rushdie gives readers an ...
My own copy of “The Juniper Tree” is an anonymous English translation published by Barnes and Noble in a book called “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.” In this translation, the plot of “The Juniper Tree” differs from the original work of the Grimm brothers. It omits the involuntary cannibalism of the father. As a result, the translator ...
With the long-awaited final issue of Warren Ellis’ and John Cassaday’s acclaimed run on Planetary, I decided to take a look at one of the odder collections put together by DC Comics through their Wildstorm imprint: the Planetary – Crossing Worlds trade paperback. The trade paperback isn’t collecting a full story arc, or feature any ...
This paranormal event happened on September 23, 1880 in Sumner County, Tennessee. David Lang was walking across a field and there were five people who were watching him. David’s wife was watching him walk across the field from the porch, and she suddenly screamed out loud. David had just disappeared as they were watching him. ...
Having previously worked in a preschool setting, I know how much children love to learn about firefighters and fire safety. I also know how tough it can be to wade through all of the firefighter books on the market to find just the right one for story time. With that said, I thought that I ...
“Striving to be better, we oft mar what’s well.” Such are the words of William Shakespeare. This hints of many frail humans who spend most of their life striving to be perfect, only to find that the goal is an impossible one and they had wasted precious time. Why do so many strive for perfection? ...