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The first trailer for As I Lay Dying just hit the inter webs and, holy geez, is it intense!!

James Franco stars in the big screen adaptation of William Faulkner's classic American novel and, we're won't lie, he gets a little bit dirty!!

Mmmm!!

Ch-ch-check out the trailer for yourself (above)!

In case you dozed off in high school lit, As I Lay Dying tells the story of a dying Mississippi woman and her dirt poor, troubled kin forced to deal with the sad, sad situation.

Set to open at Cannes later this month, the film also stars Danny McBride, Richard Jenkins, and the super sex-ay Logan Marshall-Green!

Umph!!! We we wouldn't give to play "naked pile-on" with the entire tasty cast of this dusty delight!

Tags: adaptation, as i lay dying, books, cannes, james franco, logan marshall green, mississippi, official trailer, richard jenkins danny mcbride, william faulkner

AHHH!!!

It's arrived! The final book in Veronica Roth's sci fi, young adult trilogy — which is now being made into a set of films starring Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet — is HERE!! OK, not really, but hey at least we get a peek at the cover, LOLz!

The young author recently sat down with Ryan Seacrest and talked about her experience writing the initial book in the Divergent series (she was still in college!) AND she revealed the cover art for the third, final novel Allegiant!

Ch-ch-check out the adorable chat sesh (above)!

Eeee, we're not sure we can wait until October 22 to read the inevitably EPIC conclusion to this already epic series!

But to distract us from the looooonnnnggg waiting period, let's dissect the Allegiant cover for a second…

Like, is that an AIRPORT on the bottom?! Will there be some sort of plane travel involved?! And there is definitely a water/fire theme…

Ooo Tris, what's going to happen to you?!

To see a closeup image of the entire cover (so you can obsess over it for yourself) click …AFTER THE JUMP!!!

Tags: allegiant, allegiant cover, books, divergent, trilogy, veronica roth, veronica roth interview, veronica roth ryan seacrest

Talk about a GREAT mom!

Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross set an AMAZING example for daughters Eden and Savannah by taking them book shopping at Barnes & Noble in Santa Monica!

It is SO SO SO important for parents to encourage their kids to read as much as possible, and we gotta give major props to Marcia for bringing out the inner bookworm in her twins!

And the best part is it looks like they're having a BLAST doing it! Seriously, they couldn't even wait to get home before cracking open their books!

We always knew Marcia was a fun and cool mom, but this is just awesome!

Ch-ch-check out more pics from their day at the bookstore (below)!

[Image via PN/Ramey Pix.]

Tags: barnes and noble, book shopping, books, bookworms, celeb kids, cute kids, daughter, desperate housewives, eden, marcia cross, mom, perezcious parenting, santa monica, savannah, twins

Wowzers!!!

We almost don't care if critics of these Young Adult novels say they're a Harry Potter rip-off, because The Mortal Instruments film franchise looks sweeter than Zac Efron's bicep dipped in honey!!

Ch-ch-check out Lily Collins as Clary Fray in the first official trailer for City of Bones (above)!

The FIERCE fire-haired protagonist joins Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Lena Headey, Jamie Campbell-Bower, and Kevin Zegers in this epically cast first installment hitting theaters in late August!

Based on Cassandra Clare's series of novels, the story follows a young girl who finds out her destiny is to hunt demons!!

We think it's our destiny to watch these movies, LOLz!!

Tags: books, cassandra clare, clary fray, film flickers, harry potter, jamie campbell-bower, jonathan rhys meyers, kevin zegers, lily collins, official trailer, the mortal instruments city of bones, zac efron

We're saddened to hear that Oprah's favorite poet/author, Maya Angelou, had been hospitalized!

It was brief, luckily, and she IS back at home in North Carolina recovering — we just have no idea why she was put into the hospital in the first place! There are no details!

The only other thing we're hearing is that her medical team has ordered her to NOT travel anywhere for the next three to four weeks!

Such a bummer!

At 85, we hope she's okay! Feel better soon, Maya!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: author, books, hospitalized, maya angelou, no travel, poet, scary, unknown reasons

"That was definitely one of the draws for me to work with Stephenie [Meyer]. I had read the first "Twilight" book when I was 14 and really liked how clear she made something like first love and discovering yourself. I haven't seen many of the films, to be honest — I think I saw the first one and the last one, but it was more the books that I liked."

- Saoirse Ronan, on her preference for the Twilight books and not the movies, to the LA Times.

[Images via WENN.]

Tags: books, la times, movies, preference, quote of the day, saoirse ronan, stephenie meyer, the host, twilight

Brush up on your literacy skills, Directoners — it's reading time!!

You remember books, right? They're like really really long tweets without hashtags!

Turns out the 1D will publish their own memoir!!!

Sweeeeeeet!! Reading hasn't been this fun since Zac Efron sexted us in a dream!!

We know what you're thinking. Aren't they a wee bit young for a biography?!

Naaaah! If you combine their ages the band is basically one 93-year-old dude!!!

We don't know when their undoubtedly terrific tome will hit shelves, but the brilliant boys of One Direction did reveal one awesome deet via Twitter.

The book's name! It's called

Tags: books, film flickers, harry styles, liam payne, louis tomlinson, music minute, niall horan, one direction, twitter, where we are our band our story, zayn malik