From the This Is Probably a Bad Idea files, here is a collection of Fifty Shades of Grey tie-in products that maybe should have been considered more carefully before actually hitting production. From onesies of questiona...

You're looking at the Librería El Ateneo Gr...  ...gentina that has been converted into the fanciest bookstore in exsistence. The theater boxes now serve as qui...  ...as quiet reading rooms, and as one of the busiest bookshops in the country, the selection is incredible. For...  ...ry, the selection is i...

The man who wrote Brave New World also wrote a chi...  ...and other surprising people also wrote children's books

Mystery novels starring the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew have been around for over 80 years, and there are so many of them that it might be hard to tell them apart. If you love solving mysteries, you've probably read a lot...

Artists, filmakers, and authors often get into the...  ...le to spot one. For example: Chris Van Allsburg's books always had Fritz in them somewhere.As a kid, this...  ...ter had a full collection of Van Allsburg’s books , and always made a game of finding Fritz, a littl...

Winterfell never seemed so cheerful before Kitkat Pecson got her hands on it. I don't know about you guys, but I think they should re-do it's a small world to tell the tale of A Song of Ice and Fire. Link Via io9...

When Patrick Wensink used the artwork on t...  ...print run if he was willing to stop printing the books

This unbelievably detailed replica of the Battle of Helm's Deep was created by Daniel Z was created for a department store display in Oslo, Norway. I don't know about you guys, bit I would sure as heck shop at a stor...

Did you know Sherlock Holmes was almost named “Sherringford” Holmes? Or that Gandalf was almost "Bladorthin?" Bladorthin the Grey? Yeah, not so much. But that seems to have been J.R.R. Tolkien’s original thinking....

The Library of Congress has your summer reading li...  ...y have complied a list of the 88 most influential books written by American authors. The only author with...  ...des poetry, novels, nonfiction, plays, a polemic, books books . The list includes 26 *strong class="matched...