100 different book cover designs for One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family.
This is our 2nd part of our amazing facts about books and the reading world. You’ll be entertained with 12 of the remarkable facts and events in the world of reading. In this version, find some interesting terms, past events by popular authors and lots of other statistics which you’ve probably never heard before.
So, what books have made you feel emotional? What books have you read that changed your perception on life? Have you encountered a book that reduced you to tears? If the right book hits the right spot of your unpredictable emotional spectrum, you’ll realize that the world is crazy and foreign.
When it comes to the world of books, there are hundreds of unusual and interesting words that some of us might not know. Not even a native speaker knows all the words of his own language, let alone a hardcore bookworm. This time around we’re covering a more less technical set of terms, but nonetheless pretty interesting to know when were they appeared first and what’s their alternate meanings.
Without them, we’ll be deprived of countless adventures, fantasies and experiences that no one else could have forged into our minds. Countless breakthroughs in the literature world, challenging our imagination and growing ourselves intellectually.
The video below will cover King’s writing career, his personal life and some of the interesting facts you’d find intriguing. If you’re an avid fan of King’s this is probably just icing on the cake information, but have fun nonetheless…
Have you ever read the first page of a book, and it was just so good that you had to put it down to appreciate it? Perhaps you were compelled to put the book down and stare at the wall for awhile. Do you still think about it frequently? Certain books do just that, sometimes they can be just as humorous as they’re dark as the story slowly unfolds.
Isn’t funny that books don’t seem to evoke the same emotions as films in the sense of sadness and laughter? What is the one book or series of books that you find yourself revisiting which makes you fall off your chair out of laughter? Some books may be ancient and be old as a 100 years old, but they still could have everyone in hysterics.
In this world of wonderful surprises, you’ll tend to come across funny, weird and interesting episodes in everything that we do. One of which, in this case, is within the world of books and reading. Be prepared to watch how toddlers react to reading and different types of books. Sharpest knife in the world slicing through a thick book?