To celebrate National Tolkien Reading Day (March 25), which in my opinion deserves its status as a national holiday, we must acknowledge that we would not have the fantasy genre as we know it today wi…
8 Binge-Worthy Classic Novels
With the vast majority of us here in the United States choosing to stay in our homes for the foreseeable future (my state, California, is on complete lockdown), we find ourselves with a lot more free …
What the Women of Harry Potter Taught Me about Being a Badass Woman
Author’s Note: In light of J. K. Rowling’s recent intolerant stance towards the transgender community, I want to make it clear that this post is in no way an endorsement of that stance. Harry Potter i…
15 Years of Looking for Alaska: An Ode to Suffering and Forgiveness
Fifteen years later, Looking for Alaska by John Green is just as relevant—or even more so—than the day it was published. I know that I fell in love with it the first time I read it, and every time I’v…
Library Lovers Month: A Love Letter to Libraries
As a small child who read voraciously, my parents’ wallets just couldn’t keep up with me. A visit to Barnes & Noble to buy a book was a special occasion, usually saved for birthdays or other big m…
Book Review: What I Want You to See by Catherine Linka
I started reading What I Want You to See by Catherine Linka expecting a fun, fascinating thriller about the inner working of the art world, and while this book is all of those things, what I was not e…
Book Review: One of Us is Next by Karen McManus
A game of school-wide Truth or Dare turns deadly in One of Us is Next, the highly anticipated sequel to Karen McManus’s One of Us is Lying. It’s been a year and a half since we left Bayview High, and …