Here is a fun fact that’s not so fun: spending all day on the computer for class can be mentally and physically exhausting. Now, that’s not a surprise. The big surprise for me has been just how easily I get bored and antsy during the school day! Based on my misadventures and attempts to take care of my brain during busy days, here are some tips to stay on top of your work while fueling yourself with free time…
School can be rough sometimes, no one can deny that. However, it isn’t the center of your life and you should always make time to de-stress. So instead of pushing through all of your homework at once, take breaks in between to relax. As a reader, here are some of my favorites things to do in between work…
In the midst of chaos, there is something freeing about being pulled into a captivating story that sweeps you out of your current reality and fills your head with an entirely new world. Released on March 3rd, 2020, “Havenfall” provides a promising escape for readers looking for more intrigue, mystery, and criss crossing magical worlds with each page turn. If this is what you’re looking for, then this book serves as a reservation for a stay at the Havenfall Inn, where you can poke around to your heart’s content- at your own risk…
Hey everyone! I’d like to showcase two YA novels that have been released in the year of 2020. I am looking forward to getting to read these books in the near future and I thought I’d encourage you to pick them up as well…
Although you might be waiting a while longer for production to start back up on your favorite Netflix series, you can still expect new reads to be hitting the shelves in the meantime! Don’t know where to start? Here are three pandemic-published books to pick up ASAP…
The Conference of the Birds, released January of 2020, is the fifth novel in Ransom Riggs’ acclaimed Peculiar Series, and boy, is it a doozy. I must provide a disclaimer before I get into this review: I did not like this book very much…
“Twilight” is an easy punching bag, but somehow, despite all its problems, there is something about the franchise that keeps drawing me back. Maybe because these books are targeted directly at me, a teenage girl. Maybe it’s because every guy in a 50-mile radius of Bella immediately falls in love with her, despite her being the physical embodiment of wheat bread. Maybe it’s the edgy, bad boy persona that Edward adopts even though he really isn’t a bad boy at all…
Are you a fan of horror and spooky stories that send shivers down your spine? Is science fiction is more your thing? Or perhaps you find magical realism most attention grabbing. This month marks what would be Ray Bradbury’s 100th birthday, and although he isn’t a popular name in gossip magazines or on television, you probably recognize his name from your high school and college “required reading” lists. You might not be able to name any of his works past what was on your syllabus, but he boasts a large catalog of speculative fiction books and collections that hold something for everyone…
It can be very interesting to find out what has happened in the past and even more when it happened during the same day or month we’re currently in. I came across an article in HISTORY that stated that Anne Frank wrote her last diary entry on August 1, 1944. It is mind-blowing that Anne Frank was writing in her diary for the last time and just starting to experience all the hardships we now know she endured all those years ago…
It is not at all uncommon for the examination of former adolescent passions to result in feelings of embarrassment. Most people can think of at least one thing they were obsessed with growing up that now only carries nostalgic appeal—and for many the subject of interest was a literary universe. If you were an avid reader as a kid, books like Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, The Hunger Games (and yes, Twilight), may have at one point felt like the most important thing in the world; stories you would never not be completely engulfed in. ..
