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On Looking for Alaska’s TV Adaptation – The Ironing Scene

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I’m not entirely looking for changes in the book’s television adaptation. There are some things that I’d love to stay the same, and one of those things is the ironing

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On Looking for Alaska’s TV Adaptation – The Gross Misunderstanding of Mental Illness

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Because Pudge romanticizes Alaska, he misunderstands her, and he disregards the parts of her that might not be desirable. I’m talking specifically about her mental illness.

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On Looking for Alaska’s TV Adaptation – The Dangers of Romanticization

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If you haven’t already heard the news, fans of John Green’s novel, Looking for Alaska, can look forward to an eight-episode mini-series based on the book. But how closely will

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Jamie Tan: The Life of a Candlewick Press Publicist

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It’s 5:01 PM Eastern Time on a Wednesday and Jamie Tan and her coworkers are eagerly refreshing their browsers, in hopes of finding one of their client’s books on this

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Dinner With Jillian Cantor

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Late in the Fall of 2017, the Pine Reads Review (formerly known as Tucson Tales) staff was lucky enough to have dinner with the award-winning author Jillian Cantor. Her critically

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Legend of Korra & LGBT and Women’s Representation

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Just to put this into simpler terms: A woman, person of color and bisexual was the main character and she went—after saving the world—on vacation with her genius, kick-ass, CEO,

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