BOOKS & e-READING SUNDAY: Top 100 Breaking News, Headlines & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share
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In what is perhaps the single most telling example of why the traditional publishing fails to address the needs of authors, The Guardian posted an interview with Phillip Jones, editor of the Bookseller, and Nicola Solomon, general secret...
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The elasticity of digital publishing can give new life to the shorter form, as DJ Taylor discovered I wasn't sure what to make of From the Heart , DJ Taylor's digital novella about a corporate insolvency practitioner going through an ear...
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If rumours can be believed, Apple is set to release a new iPhone this fall –equipped with a durable and resilient synthetic sapphire glass screen. If this fancy new screen performs as expected, Apple may just deliver a scratch- and...
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Decentralized technologies like BitTorrent allow people to share books, films, music and pictures. The essence is software allows people download a file for multiple sources at the same time. The more users you have sharing the same file...
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There are a ton of gossip in the digital publishing and e-reader sector that transpires every single week. Most of these short snippets simply wouldn’t do as a singular article. Today, we look at all of the little tidbits we have g...
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Amazon's leaked 'Netflix for books' plan will alarm publishers and doom old-fashioned anonymous reading Once upon a time, 12 years ago to be precise, David Bowie said something very perceptive. "Music itself is going to become like ...
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From whips and electro-torture to BDSM, Eyes Wide Shut parties and slave markets, author Robin Reinach reveals the ten most shocking things she experienced on the New York kink scene while researching her new novel Broken Open.
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The author Jacqueline Wilson is as passionate as ever about the lives of children
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Children's author Jacqueline Wilson is as passionate as ever, finds Julia Llewellyn Smith
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Facebook is Adding Buy Buttons to Ads—Do You Think They Could be Used to Buy/Sell eBooks? (The Digital Reader) Only a couple days after BitTorrent announced that they would be adding a payment option to BitTorrent Bundles, Facebook...
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Lynda La Plante, the bestselling crime writer, says convicted murderers such as Myra Hindley receive better care than the families of people they have killed
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'Kyla has to learn life all over again, like a baby' Continue reading...
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Stories of the ordinary struggles of Western Australians encompass violence and abuse but also rise to flights of sheer beauty Continue reading...
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The best, must-read crime books to take on holiday this summer
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A critical survey of the best and worst film musicals is smart and provocative, says Tim Robey
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Author says she hopes to write more books about detective Cormoran Strike than she did in her Harry Potter series Continue reading...
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'Lizzie, Ella and Betsey are so different, even though they look identical' Continue reading...
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The Castle by Sophie Bennett is a witty and fast-paced YA novel
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The world of children's literature is full of things that are just SO unfair. From The Hunger Games to Matilda, Jonathan Meres shares his top 10 injustices inflicted on fictional characters This is SO fair: if you step into any Tesco sto...
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Oliver Bullough on a masterful account of the collapse of the Soviet Union
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Should Scotland go it alone? As the referendum approaches, leading Scottish writers give their thoughts Essay: Scottish independence literature and nationalism Robert Burns and the yes campaign Continue reading...
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Scotland's national poet is is a formidable rhetorical resource for Alex Salmond. Here are seven verses ripe for appropriation Scottish writers on the referendum Essay: Scottish independence literature and nationalism Continue reading...
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Best known for his conservation classic Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell wrote an earlier account of shark-hunting in the Hebrides which is brutal and fascinating Continue reading...
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Jeff Kinney shares a hilarious sneak peak into his ninth Wimpy Kid book with us: 'I'm taking the Heffleys out of their home environment and sending them out on the road. Writing about an epic family road trip has really got my creative j...
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'A mistake? Or the start of something special?' Continue reading...
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Edwin Morgan left £1m to the SNP, JK Rowling has donated the same amount to Better Together. To what extent does Scottish literature point in the direction of going it alone? Scottish writers on the referendum Robert Burns and the yes ca...
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Gillian Slovo remembers how her fellow South African author's passion for the truth was coupled with a brilliant sense of humour Plus tributes from JM Coetzee , Justin Cartwright and Elizabeth Lowry Continue reading...
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This ambitious story about Hispanic tenants in a run-down apartment building is lit by sharp observations, but it's a pity none of the characters sounds remotely Spanish Continue reading...
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Is sharia-compliant banking just a way of twisting the rules, asks Mona Siddiqui
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A woman's discovery that the school chaplain has a dark secret sets her on a quest for the truth about the death of her son Continue reading...
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The award-winning poet and biographer tells Nicholas Wroe about Dickens, Daveheart and devolution Continue reading...
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July 19, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES – an action-packed tale sure to keep you guessing until the end — for just $2.99. Overview It’s the autumn of 1890, and a spate o...
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Summer offers many nice things. Among them are trips to the beach, cookouts with the family, visits from old friends. It is especially nice when the visit from an old friend is one involving Gabriel Allon, the Israeli master agent create...
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The new e-book subscription service has broad implications for book lovers.
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Only a couple days after BitTorrent announced that they would be adding a payment option to BitTorrent Bundles, Facebook started letting a handful of advertisers add buy buttons to their ads. This crossed my desk yesterday: Facebook is t...
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Amazon has officially launched Kindle Unlimited, a US based service that has 600,000 eBooks and audiobooks available at $9.99 per month. The Seattle based e-commerce giant is now competing against companies such as Oyster and Scribd, whi...
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Let’s talk about the most awesome book tour for this year’s hottest memoir. (Hillary Who ?) On Tuesday, Lena Dunham announced that she’ll travel to 11 cities to promote “ Not That Kind of Girl ,” which will be released by Random House on...
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Venessa Marco was at a bodega when the man behind the counter asked her if she could deep throat. He said, “You look like the kind of girl who can swallow.” Refusing to shrink from the question, as degrading and presumptuous as it was, M...
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Every person with a smartphone or tablet has experienced the frustration of a free (but not so free) app; you download it, you install it, you go to run it… and find that it’s so bogged down with ads and purchase options that...
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The compilers share a nobly edifying urge, although there’s plenty to learn from the common
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One of the irritating aspects of writing a book about current events is that those events change faster than the book can reach the market. Simon Denyer’s account of Indian politics and society comes out in the United States after Indian...
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In his engaging new book, “The Nile,” Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson explores the importance of that river to the myriad civilizations that have lived and died on its banks. As “the green thread that runs all the way from the dawn of histor...
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Typhus was the scourge of humankind for centuries, taking the lives of untold millions, but today it “can be controlled with a single dose of a common antibiotic like doxycycline,” Arthur Allen reports, so it has vanished except “in a fe...
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At the start of 1910, conservative Republicans dominated the U.S. House of Representatives. The Senate, also solidly Republican, was widely perceived as beholden to special interests working their will on state legislatures, to which the...
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It is the crossroads of the rich and famous and influential. Prime ministers, presidents, queens and movie stars have walked the handsome corridors and posed on the grand staircase of the British ambassador’s residence on Massachusetts A...
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Amazon has opened their first the Kindle Pleasure Reading House in Shanghai, China. This is a temporary autonomous pop up store that will be open from July 18 to July 20th and then August 1-3 in Beijing. The premise of the new Reading Ho...
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The hardest part about being a writer or an artist is having the inclination but not the talent. Rejection is the deepest of all artistic suffering because it is not just what we do -- it is who we are. And when we are celebrated for our...
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J.K. Rowling announced Friday that she has more than seven books planned for the Cormoran Strike series, surpassing the Harry Potter series.
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I don't want to be an anecdote a truth serum a refuge a sanctuary. I wanna be a choice a fact a reality a paradise. Poet, author, playwright, activist Pearl Cleage in her delicious deeply personal new memoir, " Things I Should Have Told ...
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E-Ink Holdings, the company responsible for e-paper found in the Kindle, Kobo, Nook and Sony may become profitable in the second half of 2014. This is mainly attributed to the growing orders for electronic tags from the US and Europe, an...
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JK Rowling says that she will write a crime series that will run even longer than her Harry Potter books.
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“For kids—and writers of kids’ books—New York City is magic. The sights and streets of NYC have been inspiring literary folk from the time of Herman Melville, but as much as short stories and novels make the City come to life...
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It's often said that love knows no bounds. There will be living proof of this adage in a celebration of international love poetry at a global literary festival in London today.
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reviewed by Ming Liu. Ming Liu is a journalist for the Financial Times and the author of the novel Our Man in China.
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There is a theme in crime literature of women being either the femme fatale or the victim When I first read Raymond Chandler, in six out of seven of his novels the woman presented herself sexually, and it galvanised me into thinking, sur...
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lessed are the latecomers. By a couple of days, I missed the official press unveiling of the restored Mauritshuis, the treasure-crammed "jewel-box" of an art museum in The Hague that houses the Dutch royal picture collection. So, after t...
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Author Karen Wilson shares her memories of a special relationship with a golden retriever in her new memoir "Dakota Gold" Link!
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The poetry slam final was held at the Warwick Bridge Theatre and hosted by the former Poet Laureate for Birmingham, Spoz. Teams from.. Link!
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Tim Parks Raise your hand if you know what the actual sales are for Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle . This mammoth work of autobiography—presently running at three five-hundred-page volumes with three more still to be translated from h...
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Poetry News: Wilks Library: Book club meets every third Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m.; Will host a monthly writers' group on the first Thursday of every month from 6-7 p.m. All writers welcome, no matter their experience.Link!
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Poetry News: ... Financial Services Group . Stevens, who lived in house from 1932 until his death in 1955, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and National Book Award. A few years ago, The Hartford Friends of Wallace Stevens, a group of po...
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The best-selling German author of The White Masai recounts her unexpected return to Africa. In 2008, Hofmann decided it was time to put her African past behind her. Eager for a new adventure, she set out from her home in Switzerland fo...
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A POEM about any town or village in Thurrock could land its writer a tidy £1,000. United Press’s local poem competition is in full swing again, in which anyone can have a go at writing about the place they love for a cash prize, even if ...
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Ogden’s Underground Poets, who describe themselves as “dissenting poets who reject polite society’s notion of what poetry should be,” will perform at Only In Ogden on July 19.Link!
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I do not rush to read books about war; in fact, I avoid them. But, strangely, some of my favourite novels, memoirs and poems were inspired by a conflict that claimed the youth of a generation and gave birth to a bitterly disillusioned mo...
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The poetry in the doctrines of Jesus Christ, and the mythology and institutions of the Celtic conquerors of the Roman Empire, outlived the darkness and the convulsions connected with their growth and victory, and blended themselves in a ...
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“Most of the time, when you find someone whose work you admire so much, the impulse is to try to parse it, to find some seams, to open them up a little and see how the thing is put together … Read More
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How to: Haggle
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In this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review , the poetry columnist David Orr writes … Read More
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O'Malley's latest graphic novel, Seconds, has just hit bookstore shelves and we're wondering who would be a great Katie in the event of an adaptation, to match Michael Cera's kick-ass Scott Pilgrim.
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Red Team 1-3 Boxed Set by Elaine Levine. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: On sale now through 7/26! Red Team 1-3 Boxed Set is a complete collection of the first three sexy romantic suspense stories in the series–a combined... more
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Trailing Philip Roth by a few months and Toni Morrison by two years, Cormac McCarthy (who turns 81 this weekend) is one of America’s greatest and most decorated writers. His cultural stock has risen immeasurably in the last decade ...
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The revolutionary Black Liberation Army of the 1970s rose out of the ashes of the Black Panther Party to free black people in the United States, this time through armed struggle. The peaceful civil rights movement of the sixties had elim...
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Did you spend your whole week with the Million-Dollar Maverick ? Here's what you missed on the RT site! *** PARANORMAL ROMANCE: We breakdown Alexandra Ivy's latest cover! Break It Down >> EROTICA: Read this week's hot Hump Day Exce...
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You ask, we answer! This is our new weekly feature where we pick one or more questions from our readers, open the Cuddlebuggery Vault of Secrets and share the goodies with you. Or something. These questions can range from completely rand...
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Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, get up to 69% Off on The Mel Brooks Collection on DVD and Blu-ray Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is The Glass Room ($1.99 Kindle; $3.99 companion audiobook), by Simon Mawer [Other Press]. Book Descripti...
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Michel Gondry is getting too much credit for the impotence of Mood Indigo . Like many critics, I watched the film before I read the book from which it was adapted. Assuming, despite my prior knowledge of author Boris Vian’s wordplay and ...
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Poetry News: Professor emeritus Jack Ridl and Hope College Graduate Christopher Dombrowski have received Gold and Silver recognitions for their poetry by the IndieFab Awards competition.Link!
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The poetry slam final was held at the Warwick Bridge Theatre and hosted by the former Poet Laureate for Birmingham, Spoz. Teams from St ...Link!
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Poet Lee Mallory moved from Orange County to Las Vegas with the quixotic goal of reigning as king of poetry there. Poet Lee Mallory moved from Orange County to Las Vegas with the quixotic goal of reigning as king of poetry there. To ...L...
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Symbols: the gloves we use to pat horror. I want to know when it is that we’re first able to grasp symbols. Not when we first try to decipher them, many of us don’t even get around to that – but when they begin to appear as substitutes f...
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In its continued attempts to win the Iron Throne of Booklandia, Amazon has formally announced their ebook and audiobook subscription service, Kindle Unlimited . Rumors of the service had been swirling for the past couple of weeks, and th...
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’20 minutes is pretty standard for a daily reading assignment for elementary school students around the US. Check out this great graphic displaying the cumulative effect of reading 20 minutes a day during the school year. Add 1,00...
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Ever since Scribd set up their unlimited reading subscription (essentially, a paid library membership, with books limited to participating publishers and generally no “too new” books), I’ve been waiting for Amazon to st...
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"We will have readings of poetry, drama, fiction, and local history from some of the best authors around today. For lovers of writing and verse, this will be ...Link!
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Poetry News: From October 3 to19 the 41st Ilkley Literature Festival continues to be a magnet for leading contemporary writers, attracting authors from a wide range of genres including fiction, journalism and current affairs, poetry, bio...
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Finalists were invited to compete against one another at a Poetry Slam on Wednesday, June 25th to help the panel decide. The three Poets Laureate selected are: Donte Clark, Brenda Quintanilla, and ...Link!
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"We're definitely really, really excited," said Carina Burgher, 18, one of his WOW students who's testing their slam-poetry skills on a national audience for the first time. "It's an incredible opportunity. The entire team worked really ...
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Dear Ms. Agnew, I’ll admit it – I was skeptical at first. When I requested the title, I was under the mistaken impression it was a full length historical romance novel rather than something much shorter. How could the... more
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The Secrets of Lily Graves is one of those rare YA books that actually manages to surprise me. I expected to enjoy this one, and I did, but I didn’t expect to by stumped by the mystery and up late into the night reading to the ver...
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Everyone who enjoys reading, and even those who do not, have a favourite literary character.
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To mark Thompson's birthday, we present a true or false quiz that looks at the exploits of this renegade writer.
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The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK is Selected Fiction Novels for £0.99 Each Bitter Winds (Tales of the Scavenger’s Daughters, Book Three) by Kay Bratt Call of the Kiwi (In the Land of the Long White Cloud saga) by Sar...
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Happy almost weekend, readers! It's been quite a week for us as we pack up our offices and prepare to move, but guess who reaps the benefits with an awesome giveaway? You! We came across some unclaimed goodies from previous giveaways, an...
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Multi-part episodes of young reader recommendations. Thank you! This week, Jane’s recommendations based on her daughter’s reading enjoyment and their experiences with books together. Then, I’ll be on next week with my r...
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The Internet is full of hilarious gems and memorable words of wisdom from the masses. Authors, readers and publishers on Twitter are no exception and continuously put smiles on the faces of Twitter users daily in 140 characters or less. ...
