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
At the end of each year I usually provide a list of my favorite books. However, I’ve found that, since graduating and in the midst of life, the selection to choose from has lessened significantly. A 2016 study found that the average American reads about 12 books a year. Since I keep track of… Continue reading My Year as an Average Reader
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
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
The Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series is an easily recognizable collection of books that passed from kid to kid from the mid-80s to the early 2000s. They were not available in the local library or they were always checked out. Kids would gather around in groups to shudder at Stephen Gammell’s illustrations… Continue reading 13 Spooky Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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
There’s something about reading a children’s literature book as an adult that reminds you of simpler things. When dragons could be easily slayed, the world was either good or evil, and anything was possible if you believed hard enough. The Wolf Wilder is, at its heart, a fairy tale that takes place in pre-revolution Russia.… Continue reading “Brave as Wolves”: The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
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