If you’ve been a bibliophile since words first became stories then you know the all too real struggle of maintaining a growing collection of old favorites, new additions, and the ever-growing To Be Read. The size of my shelves has ebbed and flowed over the years, and so have their contents. At least four… Continue reading Shelfie 2022: Childhood Favorites
Look, we all have our comfort books—the ones that lift you up when you’re feeling down, help you escape when you need an out, the comfortable world that feels made just for you. Like soaking in a warm bath, a comfort read settles the mind in ways some media just can’t. We all have… Continue reading “Don’t Let the Haters Get You Down”: Gamer Girl by Mari Mancusi
I didn’t read many books in 2020. Some of this may be because of post-MFA burnout, and some of it may be due to the mental fatigue of dealing with a pandemic. I started a lot of books—didn’t finish them. I read plenty of fan fiction; it is easier to delve into familiar worlds… Continue reading My Favorite Books of 2020
We can all safely say we probably binged, enjoyed, and consumed more media in 2020 than in some years prior. I’m a person who regularly watches TV shows and movies, reads books, and listens to music and I (mostly) increased the value of all of those categories during this year. Prior to quarantine, with… Continue reading My Favorite TV Shows of 2020
A great piece of advice I learned early in my college career was that “every –ism is not a noun but a verb, and we are either constantly doing or undoing that action.” Feminism is an active verb. Classism is too. Most of all, so is racism. In this way, the beliefs and thoughts that… Continue reading Black Literature Matters
Several years ago, I dedicated my blog to love for the month of February. This is back when I blogged every day and didn’t write as many reviews, and by the end of the month I was absolutely sick of romance. Daring to tempt a repeat and happy with the moderate success of Octerror, I… Continue reading “A Hard Question to Answer”: The Selection by Kiera Cass
The one good thing that 2016 did was gift us with two official Harry Potter additions to the universe. The first, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, did well enough as a play but its written format split fans. The second, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, found critical success as both film and… Continue reading “They Are Not Dangerous”: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter changed my life. It gave me a dream, an imaginative escape, a creative outlet for ideas. Harry means more to me than any other fiction series or books I’ve read, because—in some way—I am who I am today because of him. So when I heard that a Harry Potter play was going to… Continue reading “I Didn’t Choose to Be His Son”: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, & Jack Thorne
Whilst shopping with friends at Barnes & Noble, I found a single copy of a beautiful book on a shelf amongst the paranormal teen romance section. Unfortunately, being a poor college student, I did not have the luxury funds to buy the book. So I waited, and finally got a gift card and used it… Continue reading Okaeri: Ink by Amanda Sun
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