New Season, New Stars for True Detective
True Detecitve, the HBO miniseries that enthralled audiences with its eerily beautiful images and masterful acting performances, will soon be gearing up for a second season, but without stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. Officially announced as cast members for season 2 are Colin Ferrell and Vince Vaughn. The new storyline that will unfold in season 2 will be about …
Read MoreThis Shirtless Baker Is a Tasty Pastry!
TruLOVEstories’ latest Shirtless Bedtime Story, inspired by the short story Lust With the Proper Stranger, is now available below. When we asked four heart-melting “model” men to read a story from BroadLit’s series of TruLOVE® Collections, after a lot of coaxing (and begging), they reluctantly agreed. We caught it all on camera, but the result is far from what you …
Read MoreDescriptive Words for the Unwise
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Effective descriptive writing is hard work, requiring careful word choices to inspire the reader’s imagination and emotions. Misguided use of adverbs and adjectives can suck the life out of prose, and here is a partial list of my pet peeves. Empty Intensifiers: Adverbs such as “very” and “really” are lazy substitutes for more intense verb or adjective choices; for …
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Who Did It Best?
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History has a way of repeating itself, and Hollywood follows the same rules. So many actors have played the same roles throughout time, so we wanted to ask, who was the best? Which actor was your favorite? Take our poll below and vote! Who Did it Best?
Read MoreWho is Hannah Brencher?
Tags: entertainment news, love
Simply put, Hannah Brencher is a writer. To get a bit more complex, Hannah Brencher is an idealist, a romantic, an inspiration to thousands and a throwback to the days when the written word actually meant something. In October of 2010, she began writing love letters intended for strangers and tucking them away in libraries and cafes across New York …
Read MoreNeighbors in Heat
We lust after the couple next door! Jerry wanted a divorce. He broke the news to me in his usual quiet way. “We don’t have anything in common,” he stated. My head was spinning with so many emotions: terror that I’d be out on the street or living in my car, hurt because I still loved him and I …
Read MoreWhy We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Tags: love, romance
Helen E. Fisher, PhD biological anthropologist, and Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University, has written a new book entitled, Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love. In the book, Fisher offers a new map of the phenomenon of love—from its origins in the brain to the thrilling havoc it creates in our bodies and behavior. …
Read More9 Memorable, Manic Moments of Jealousy in Literature
Tags: jealousy, writing
What is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its “loneliness, longevity, grim thrill” — that is, says Parul Sehgal, except for fiction. In an eloquent meditation she scours pages from literature to show how jealousy is not so different from a quest for knowledge. Jealousy was also …
Read MoreThe Giver Q & A
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The Giver is a 1993 American children’s novel by Lois Lowry that has been adapted for the screen. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to “Sameness,” a …
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