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Pile yourself and all your kids into a big bed and read a story together

It’s World Book Night! It’s a night where we celebrate our love of reading, and hope to foster that same love in other people too. In some cities, people will be going out distributing paperbacks in hope that these books will find good homes and their new owners will seek out more and more reading material.

While we don’t expect you to canvas the neighbourhood passing around old copies of Catcher in the Rye, you and the kids could go through their old pictures books and see if there are any that the kids could spare. Consider donating a few to a local women’s shelter.

We’re also really into Flavorwire’s idea of celebrating World Book Night, which is to find a book to read out loud.  Read more...

Our favourite character castings

With the internets abuzz with talk of Christopher Nolan’s über-anticipated follow-up to The Dark Knight, as well as speculation that Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire will join Carey Mulligan in Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby, we couldn’t help but think our other favourite characters brought to life on the big screen.

For the record, we think Hathaway would be a great love interest for Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne, Mulligan will be a charming Daisy Buchanan, DiCaprio is so golden anyway and obviously works well with Luhrmann to be his Gatsby, but we are so not in favour of Maguire as Nick Carraway. Not that he’s a bad actor, but we just don’t see ourselves falling in love with him as we do with Fitzgerald’s Nick Carraway. Or Sam Waterston’s Carraway.

So in no particular order, here are some actors we thought did their characters justice:  Read more...