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You should enjoy a bestseller as you would a delicious slice of pepperoni pizza: slowly, savoring each bite, sharing happily with your friends. Oka...

Click on the "play" button...if you dare. Wow, you don't seem very scared. Well, we did what we could. Guess thrillers aren't our forte.

Historical fiction novels like The Help can whisk you back to a place and time that you may have only read about in history books. Or... a place an...

The gods and heroes battle it out with monsters in the best of mythology.

Let's face it, we all want to be reading what the cool kids are reading. Or, we want to at least get a copy of what they’re reading so we can sli...

This video discusses the Early Modern period in Europe and the literature produced during that time, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to the various t...

Everything you read has a theme. Even this blurb has a theme. What is it? If we told you, you might not be curious enough to watch this video, and...

Not a believer in the power of visual communication? All right; go ahead and watch this video with your eyes closed. We'll let you know when it's o...

Cute fuzzy puppies. Giggling babies. A huge sundae topped with fudge and whipped cream and... yeah. We just wanted to put a smile on your face, bec...

Every culture has some idea about where we all came from. Surprisingly, very few of them hypothesize that we are all simply figments of Lady Gagaâ€...

So you're having a bad day. You're dog peed on your bed, your mom burnt your pop-tarts, and you tripped over a chair...at your graduation ceremony....

This video defines analogies. What makes an analogy different from a metaphor? How can analogies help strengthen an essay?

Sure, Edgar Allan Poe was dark and moody and filled with teenage angst, but what else does he have in common with the Twilight series?

Yes, these three stories do actually have something in common. No, it is not a small, orange-brown, mustachioed creature who "speaks for the trees!...

Well, you start with the first word, then the second, then the third… until you finish an entire sentence. Next comes the second sentence… Okay...

Short stories are really the best of both worlds: short enough to hold your attention but long enough to be meaningful—but only if you read them...

Have you ever picked up a book simply because they made a movie out of it? You wouldn’t be the first. It’s fun to see how filmmakers take the w...

Young Adult fiction isn't just for young adults. Everyone can relate to the themes because all readers are young adults at some point in their live...

No, this isn't like making a PhD and an MA go to their rooms because they’ve been fighting all evening. You're thinking of a Separation of Degrees.

If you classify yourself as a "young adult," then you'll probably identify with a lot of these themes. If you don't...well, grow up already, won't...