If you dream a fiction and wake up with that fiction in your hands, it becomes fact. And for Maggie Steifvater’s Call Down the Hawk, such a sentiment rings especially true for her protagonists, who dwell in dreams that bleed…
Book Review: Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
Utterly chilling. That’s the only way to adequately unbox the grisly and ghoulish and engrossing package Stephen Chbosky’s Imaginary Friend has to offer. 50 years ago, an 8-year-old boy walked into the Mission State Woods and was never seen again.…
Book Review: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
In his latest novel, The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates plunges readers into a story as fluid and moving as its namesake. Born into bondage under his slave-owning father, young Hiram’s convinced his ticket to freedom lies in his genius, his…
Book Review: Home Girl by Alex Wheatle
In his latest novel, Alex Wheatle tackles the tragic realities and faults of the foster care system, highlighting the horrors and hardships many children endure. Juggled from foster home to foster home, 14-year-old Naomi has come to think of them…
The Goldfinch: How the movie is different from Donna Tartt’s book
As any book lover can attest to, book-to-movie adaptations are both a reader’s dream and bane of existence. We’ve all experienced that swell of excitement and apprehension at a beloved book hitting the big screen, only for one of two…
Book Review: Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
As a firefighter, Cassie Hanwell has made a career of keeping calm and thriving in chaos. Away from the extremes of her job, however, she lives a quiet, risk-free life, scarred by past traumas and her mother’s abandonment. So when…
