Video: Mom creates mobile bookstore to share the magic of reading for residents living in the Bronx

I found this interesting story and had to share it. I think it's so cool that Latanya Devaughn created Bronx Bound Books, a mobile bookstore to make it easier for people in the Bronx to get books. Because the sad thing is not every city or area in the world has access to libraries or bookstores. And businesses and services like Bronx Bound Books is something so wonderful and truly needed because it brings the love of books and reading to those who don't access to them.

Found Online: Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talks Beauty, Femininity and Feminism

This interview with author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie raises some really good points and femininity and perception. Because whenever I would watch a documentary or something say on the science channel, I always notice that many if not all of the women scientists, professors, doctors, etc. resemble The Big Bang Theory's Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler. They come across looking very frumpy as if they don't care about themselves. It's as if they feel they have to do away with their femininity to be taken seriously. I really wish that wasn't so.

Anyway, this is a good interview.


Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talks Beauty, Femininity and Feminism

by Valeriya Safronova, The New York Times

Perhaps the most unexpected fashion icon of the year has just added another glossy credit to her name. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian-born novelist and feminist known for novels like “Americanah” and “Purple Hibiscus”; recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, the O. Henry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award (among others); and author of a viral TED Talk, “We Should All Be Feminists,” which has been viewed over three million times since its delivery in 2012 as well as sampled by Beyoncé, is now the face of No7, the makeup brand owned by the pharmacy chain Boots.

Vogue Magazine's 73 Questions with Olivia Munn

I love watching these Vogue 73 Question interviews and here is another interesting one with Olivia Munn.

Found Online: A Fashionista Article: How Do I Just Go Back to Being a Beauty Editor Now?

This article below is everything I've been feeling about on going back to writing about books (which you guys know I love) and reading and all things geek. After the results of the election the things I loved writing about seemed almost frivolous with so many people in this country now feeling fearful of what's to come under this upcoming new regime.

However, after a few days of feeling sad and angry (I'm still going to continue fight for equality) I realized that my blog is a bit of an escape be it from the book reviews to the art work. I want viewers to continue to have a place where they can find honest reviews and fun topics of discussion. I'm not going to stop speaking out as a writer it's one of the tools and skills that I have to use and I will. But for now I will leave with this quote from the author that I really love: "To stop writing about a uniquely female-targeted subject would be conceding to Trump and his supporters that I am, in fact, as powerless and weak as they'd like to think I am. But it goes beyond that; it's especially in times of turmoil that we need to find the beauty in the world."

I completely agree. Please read this article:


How Do I Just Go Back to Being A Beauty Editor Now?

by Stephanie Saltzman, Fashionista (fashionista.com)

What a week. Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty Images

How can I return to writing about skin care when so many people — myself included — now feel so unsafe in their skin?

On Wednesday morning, I cried myself awake — something I'd been fortunate enough not to realize was even possible until that moment (I'd only ever heard of crying oneself to sleep). It took me a second to orient myself and remember why, exactly, I was so distraught. I called my mom and cried some more. Once I finally managed to get myself out of bed, I turned on the Today show, like I do most mornings. Tamron Hall and Al Roker were standing by good-naturedly as Dr. Oz walked them through some anti-aging skin-care tips. It made me feel even more physically ill than I already did. I, a beauty editor and self-professed skin-care obsessive, had never cared less about skin-care tips in my entire life. (The hosts, I should mention, were clearly just trying to get through it. They were both, no doubt, feeling lots of the same things I was — but they're pros. As their mouths said "Oh, interesting," their eyes were saying "Today is a rough day.")

Found Online: Detroit's Oldest Bookstore To Close

It always makes me sad to hear about a bookstore closing. To me bookstores are magical, I equate it be being a kid in a toy store. You take in the whole store not sure where to go first. That experience for me has not changed no matter how old I get. I love going to bookstores and it really does make me sad when one closes.

Here is a very interest article about the closing of Detroit's oldest bookstore. Let me know if you enjoyed the article, I love finding different articles to post.

Reading The Last Chapter At Detroit's Oldest Bookstore

by John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press

William Foulkes looked out the window of his store and watched the world passing by.

It was September, a new school year had begun, and college students outside walked past in twos and threes, looking down at their cell phones as they moved.

Foulkes was alone inside, standing behind the counter of the Big Bookstore, which sits on the northern edge of what’s now called Midtown, right by Wayne State University. It’s the oldest continually operating bookstore in the city. It’s one of the last independent bookstores left in the region. And after 80 years or so, it’s about to close for good.

Book News: Rick Riordan to Publish New Mythologly-Based Middle Grade Books

Disney Announces New Rick Riordan Imprint Books

By Sue Corbett, Publishers Weekly

Rick Riordan has gotten a variation on the same question from his fans about a zillion times: When are you going to write about (fill in the blank): the Hindu gods and goddesses? Ancient Chinese mythology? Native American legends?

 

Now, he has an answer – of sorts: Disney-Hyperion is launching Rick Riordan Presents, an imprint devoted to mythology-based books for middle grade readers. The imprint, which will be led by Riordan’s editor, Stephanie Owens Lurie, hopes to launch with two books in summer 2018. The books will not be written by Riordan, whose role will be closer to curator than author.

Found Online: An ELLE Magazine Interview with Lucy Liu

I read this ELLE magazine interview and knew I had to share it. I have been a fan of Lucy Liu's for a long time and feel like she is so underrated in Hollywood.

Although this is a good interview, I made only one little addition to it. The writer mentioned that Lucy Liu was on an episode of Sex and the City, but didn't include what episode it was. So as a fan of the show, I went ahead and put in that information.


Lucy Liu Can Still Kick Your Ass in Heels

By Faran Krentcil, ELLE magazine

Before Karlie Kloss boxed through Bad Blood and Jennifer Lawrence won The Hunger Games, there was Lucy Liu.

News: Fear and Despair Grow Among Young Britons Over Leaving EU

After I read this article, I just had to post it. Can you image all the stress they are going through wondering how everything in their country is going to change and how it will affect them.

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Among Young Britons, Fear and Despair Over Vote to Leave E.U.

By Claire Barthelemy and Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura for The New York Times

LONDON — As the bands played on at the Glastonbury music festival in Somerset, England, Lewis Phillips and his friends drowned their sorrows in song and alcohol.

“We’re the ones who’ve got to live with it for a long time, but a group of pensioners have managed to make a decision for us,” Mr. Phillips, 27, said on Friday of Britain’s decision to withdraw from the European Union. He said he was now “terrified” about the country’s economic prospects.

Found Online: SELF Magazine's 15 Clever Ways to Save Money

If my budget were real it would be screaming at me to stop shopping. I may have splurged a little too much recently from books to Funkos. Now is probably a good time to start cutting back a bit. While looking for money saving tips, I found this SELF magazine article "15 Clever Ways to Save Money Every Month Without Even Noticing". I think I may give some of the tips a try, they seem easy enough.

I posted the tips below:

Found Online: A Fun Interview with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Ming-Na Wen

Agent Melinda May continues to be my favorite character from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. I think Ming-Na Wen has done an excellent job showing there's more to Agent May than her cold persona.

Looking to know a little more about Ming-Na Wen and Agent May, here is an interesting interview I found on the TV Show Patrol website. Something cool I found out from reading this, she is currently writing a lifestyle book. It will be interesting see what sort of tips and advice will be included in the book.

Found Online: Another Terrible Interview with Wonder Woman Writer Meredith Finch

I recently read a very disappointing The Mary Sue interview with Wonder Woman writer Meredith Finch. I have to agree with many of the commenters, the interviewer Maddy Myers handled Finch with kid gloves. She didn't ask any hard hitting questions. One of the commenters Maus Merryjest made a good point regarding this interview: 

It does lead one to wonder whether she [Meredith Finch] received this treatment because she is a female creator who is currently writing Wonder Woman. If, say, Scott Lobdell had Lobdelled all over Diana (in other words: written her absolutely horribly, which is what he does with anything he touches nowadays), would we have seen a gentle touch? No. And deservedly so.

And Meredith Finch did not deserve the kid gloves. In fact, I would say that as a woman who is writing Wonder Woman, THE female superhero who above all other embodies the principles of female empowerment, Meredith Finch should get the blunt treatment and be held up to the heights of Perez and Rucka. Treating her with hugs and kittens when she is doing an awful job sends a rather terrible message here- that, as a female creator, she can't take the heat.

Since Finch took over the writing for Wonder Woman beginning with issue #36, the run has been receiving an overwhelmingly number of bad reviews and it doesn't look like the tide will change any time soon not with the current take on Wonder Woman and the Amazons. Readers are upset with Finch's mishandling of Donna Troy among other things.

Meredith is too new of a writer to have taken over the writing for Wonder Woman. There is absolutely no way DC Comics would have let a new writer take over for Batman. They have invested too much into keeping Batman at the top to risk it with a new writer. But since Wonder Woman doesn't seem to be held in the same regards this unfortunately is what readers of Wonder Woman get, which is unbelievably disappointing.

The Mary Sue lost their journalistic integrity with this interview. I actually lost respect for them for publishing this. Well that's not exactly true, I think my respect for this site started to drop when they wrote the review which was titled "Haters Gonna Hate, but Jem and the Holograms Is Not a Bad Movie". Well, I guess that was the writer Carolyn Cox's opinion but the movie was apparently so bad it was pulled from theaters two weeks after being released. Lately, to me this site seems to be dropping in quality.

Side Note: If you get a chance, scroll down through the comment section of the Jem and the Holograms review and read Insanenoodlyguy's review. It provides more insight into the movie than The Mary Sue's review does.