Into the mire!
FANTASY IS THE genre that allows people to imagine a world without limits, a place to escape. Black Leopard, Red Wolf is Marlon James’ first book of his new Dark Star Trilogy. James’s previous novels called A Brief History Of Seven Killings and John Crow’s Devil, which explore many of the common themes present in […]
MoreWE ALL HAVE crushes on actors. Think about the feeling of seeing them on TV or at the movies. You may to smile every time you think of them, but would you actually think you could date them? There’s a line between a dream in your fandom and real life, and we know that–except Kristina, […]
MoreWRITTEN AS AN autobiographical novel-in-verse, Ali Liebegott in The summer of dead birds, uses her poetry to try to learn to balance the heaviness of death with the tender strangeness of life. Ali Liebegott is an American writer, actor, comedian, and artist. She is the recipient of a Peabody Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and […]
MoreHOW DO A new Disney theme park, a high school play production, and a teenage pregnancy all relate to one another? Not in the way I expected to say the least, and I’m certain it’s not the way you would expect it to either. Michael Knight certainly keeps the surprises coming in At Briarwood School […]
MoreLIKE NIC CHEN, I only have 500 words or less to convince you why you should read the novel 500 Words or Less. This seemingly difficult task is one that the narrator, Nic, perfects over the course of Juleah Del Rosario’s debut coming of age novel that explores the unavoidably stressful hurdle of first semester […]
MoreExpectationsFriendshipsIndividualityMistakesResponsibilityStress This is a coming of age index. COMING OF AGE It seems like the literary scene is full of coming of age novels with plucky protagonists facing my terrifying coming of age index. While the the characters in said novels are more diverse than ever, the stories themselves consistently revolve around my handy coming […]
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