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How it Ends Movie Review

The Netflix Original disaster movie How it Ends follows two men across the country as the world slowly crumbles round them.Tom Sutherland (Forest Whitaker), an ex-marine, is a devoted father to his daughter Sam (Kat Graham), and does not particularly like her boyfriend Will (Theo James), who he believes took his daughter away from him when the couple moved to Seattle. Will is in Chicago for work and to ask for Tom’s blessing to marry Sam, but when he gets cut off from Sam in a seemingly country wide power outage from an unknown source, Will and Tom must trek cross…

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Books

On Reading Shakespeare

I’m sure that a lot of you have, at some point, understood the struggle of reading Shakespeare plays during our school days. Of course, we have always been taught that William Shakespeare, the Bard himself, whose works have survived for over a whopping four centuries later, is one of the most timeless and classic playwrights ever. And hey, I am certainly not one to doubt that; Shakespeare’s vast repertoire offers a variety of genres, historical events, themes, and plotlines with an intelligence and wit that will always be considered pertinent. As a Canadian living in Toronto, “Shakespeare for Kids” versions…

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Books

Man Booker Dozen – The 2018 Man Booker Prize Longlist!

The longlist, or the “Man Booker Dozen” was announced earlier this week and I am so excited. For those of you who may be unaware, the Man Booker is £50,000 prize to a writer from any nationality, writing in English and published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Prior to 2016, the Man Booker Prize had been open to only citizens of commonwealth countries. As such it had become a part of British literary culture. However, since 2016 it has been opened up and the last two winners have been from the United States. This might suggest an opening up…

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Music

Summer Vacation Playlist

Summer is the time to enjoy the gorgeous weather. And what better way to have fun with your summer activities than to accompany them with some music? Whether you’re having a BBQ in the backyard, sipping drinks on a patio, going to the beach with friends, road tripping with family, flying out to your next destination, or even just relaxing at home, a good playlist is always a nice addition. Today’s Spotify list is a carefully curated list of 40 songs: a combination of current summer hits, a few slightly older ones (like Robert Glasper and Yasiin Bey’s incredible collab…

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Movies

Guest Post: The New Teen Rom-Com is Queer

Hello, readers! S & I have an important announcement: as of today, we will be putting up guest posts on AvidBards in addition to our own! Katherine H. writes today’s wonderful post, on the queer diversification of teen romantic comedies and what that means for mainstream media. Katherine is a graduate from the University of Edinburgh and American University. She currently lives in New Hampshire and cannot wait to start her PhD in History at Durham University. If you are interested in writing a guest post, contact us on IG or Facebook @avidbards! (Warning: this post contains minimal potential spoilers…

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Books

Introducing the “Canongate Myth Series” Book Reviews

One of the things I was absolutely obsessed with as a kid was mythology and folklore of any kind. If it had to do with old-time gods and impossibly perfect heroes and heroines, I would be drawn to it. Things like Hercules had be as excited as the muses. So, obviously, the moment I heard about the Canongate Myth Series, I jumped on it. Conceived in 1999, the project aimed to have authors rewrite a myth in a series of short novels. The first books of this series came out in 2005 with Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth,…

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