Every Friday, we share a handful of links that we found funny, provocative or just plain cool. We call it In Our Feeds. Have a great weekend!
- “My mum was too embarrassed to tell the vet our tortoise was called voldetort so she just said his name was Susan” said one Twitter user in this hilarious roundup of hilarious tweets that perfectly capture your feelings about animals.
- Have you ever given the term "blurb" much thought before? Believe it or not, blurbs have been a powerful publishing tool for a very long time—Walt Whitman even used a blurb from his pal Ralph Waldo Emerson on the spine of his book in 1856.
- Kids were recently asked to share their definitions of happiness and success on camera. The answers are too cute!
- Mumbai-based musical group The Indian Jam Project transformed the Harry Potter soundtrack into a classical Indian hit, complete with instruments such as a sarangi and santoor.
- Your Christmas dinner might take place at Hogwarts this year, but it won’t be cheap! Fans can buy tickets to have dinner and a movie at the original Warner Bros. Studio set on December 3 (due to popular demand, tickets already sold out).
- Despite popular belief, print book sales are still holding strong! Check out this list of 11 reasons the print doomsayers have definitely been wrong all along.
- September 27 through October 3 is banned books week in celebration of the literary works that have been censored, challenged or even moved off shelves. Here’s a handy infographic from the American Library detailing books that were challenged in 2014.
- Punctuation isn’t easy for everyone. In fact, renowned English poets William Wordsworth and Lord Byron both admitted to struggling with punctuation!
- From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum to The Baby-sitters Club by Ann M. Martin, here’s a roundup of 15 children's books that taught us life lessons for our 20s.
- BookRiot recently did a reader poll to uncover which books you’d love to see brought to life as musicals. Topping the list: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis and the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.
- WOW! A 17-year-old artist from Slovakia designed a beautiful “Map of Literature” showing how the world’s literature has evolved throughout the years.
- If you could have anything from the Harry Potter world, would you want an invisibility cloak? According to a new report, scientists might be working on a technology that could make this fictional accessory into reality!
- You’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover… Or are you? A new browser-based game called Judgey allows users to literally judge books by their covers.
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