Today is the day when we celebrate the dialect that we all have heaaarrrrrrty feelings about–Talk Like a Pirate Day!…
Tally and Shay’s 16th Birthday (Sept 9)
Tally and Shay became friends shortly before their 16th birthdays (on Sept 9th) when they were supposed to have mandatory…
The stock of d’Anconia Copper crashes. (Sept 3)
Francisco d’Anconia causes a number of fires and cave-ins to his own copper mines, deliberately crushing the wealth of his…
The First Week of August
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…
Summer Vacation
As you may imagine, tracking fictional worlds of events (as well as living real-life ones) can be a bit much,…
Population of paper town Agloe, NY drops from 1 to 0 (May 29).
Margo Roth Spiegelman embodies excitement and enthusiasm, and after a night pulling retributory pranks—she vanishes. Quentin and his friends try…
Lord Richard Croft goes missing in the field (May 15, 1985).
Lara Croft’s dad (Richard) goes missing on May 15, 1985, though we later find out that he was killed. That’s…
Katniss Everdeen’s Birthday (May 8)
On this day, the heroine of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian trilogy, The Hunger Games, was (…is? …will be?) born. The Hunger…
May the Fourth be With You (May 4). aka Star Wars Day.
We all know Star Wars, so I’m just going to suggest using quotes as much as you can during the…
The Battle of Hogwarts (2 May).
Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley return to Hogwarts after a year of searching for horcruxes, just in time…
