A JOYCEAN welcome to you all, on this fine June 16th! Although 2020 presents us with a very different climate in which to celebrate Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, every county around Ireland has adhered to at least some traditions that Leopold Bloom himself would be proud of! Here’s how this literary masterwork is manifesting itself in… Read more »
AS its critical and commercial success continues, audiences across the world continue to be delighted with the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel ‘Normal People’, with the exception of some hardcore fans of the novel who have expressed disappointment at scenes that have not made the leap from page to screen. Producers have admitted… Read more »
HAVING cleaned the house top to bottom, put up all shelves, repaired the leaky tap, cut the grass and trimmed the hedge one local man finds himself so unspeakably bored he is contemplating the unthinkable. “Honestly, a fucking book. With words and everything, that’s how bad this state of affairs is getting” explained 33-year-old Anthony… Read more »
IN WHAT IS being described as a flagrant and brazen attempt to show off, one Dublin based man has been spotted in full view of the public looking all intellectual while reading a book on a park bench, much to the disgust of passersby. His fingers loudly caressing the edge of a page before nonchalantly… Read more »
THEY SAY you can’t judge a book by its cover, but no one ever asks the most important question of all; who are ‘they’? We here at WWN Rush To Judgement are sick of being told what to do, what not to say, and all by these intellectual types. If you or I want to… Read more »
SO, you’ve finally decided that the world simply cannot go on any longer without you four-part science-fiction romance epic set in a dystopian near future, kind of a steampunk Othello with shades of The Hobbit, part hunger Games, part Fifty Shades, all awesome. That’s great. A Pulitzer awaits. But first, you have to write the… Read more »
DESPITE getting three pages in, Waterford man Patrick Lyons was forced to restart the chapter in his latest book reading endeavour after his mind just wandered off of its own accord, WWN can confirm. Rereading the words he had already apparently read, but somehow failed to process, the 34-year-old restarted chapter 4 in another attempt, this time vowing to concentrate… Read more »
THERE’S only one thing more profound and eye opening than having an appreciation of the artistic merit of seminal books, and that’s simply pretending to be the sort of intelligent person who ‘gets’ those things. Pretending to have read the below 5 books can work for anyone, from the thickest of thick shits, to middling… Read more »
LOCAL groundbreaking news service Waterford Whispers News has spoken exclusively to itself for the first time following the release of what it’s humbly calling the ‘greatest book of all time’. The title of ‘greatest book of all time’ more recently belonged to the 2011 Daniel O’Donnell calendar, but that masterpiece has finally been usurped. Containing, words,… Read more »
The latest PR coup for Pope Francis has seen him hire famous and revered children’s author JK Rowling to rewrite the Bible. It is hoped the author, most famous for her Harry Potter series, can make it more accessible and believable for a new generation of Catholics and Christians. While the specifics of the rewrite… Read more »