Story by Kaylyn Ling For two select weeks out of the year, all of Gainesville’s bookworms come inching out of their nooks and crannies and convene in one place: the Friends of the Library Book Sale. The biannual event is an immensely popular five-day warehouse sale of books, magazines, DVDs, artwork, records and more miscellaneous… Continue reading Book sale welcomes readers from far and wide
BY KATHERINE JOVANOVIC Since J.K. Rowling confirmed a fan theory that Voldemort’s snake Nagini was originally a witch, she sent Harry Potter fans into quite a frenzy. Here’s what we know: Nagini the snake used to be a witch. She suffers from maledictus, a blood curse passed from mother to daughter that causes animal transformation.… Continue reading Woman or Monster? Nagini in the Wizarding World
BY KATHERINE JOVANOVIC Lauren Stewart, 23-year-old owner and artist of bookstagram (book instagram) account @in.the.reads, greets J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth everyday as she walks into her office. The map aficionado recently completed her goal of creating a wall-sized map, which she estimated required fifty hours of painting. She said the most difficult aspects involved measuring and… Continue reading PRISM Picks: In the Reads
