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…
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…
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…
There’s no question that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on the way entertainment is created and produced. Rarely, however, do we talk about the pandemic’s impact on what kind of content is being created. Most readers turn to books filled with more individual-level struggles like love triangles or relationship woes…
Entertainment has not escaped the pandemic’s grasp, leaving every kind of creative field in some kind of disarray. Could the work of some artists, such as writers, have only sustained minimal damage in all the chaos?
While there’s no doubt that some types of poetry have been heavily influenced by older, structure-heavy forms like sonnets and soliloquies, the work of many modern poets has transformed the industry into one that is much more accessible for audiences who are younger, or simply less acquainted with the poetry genre.
While victories small and large are being won as a direct result of the Black Lives Matter protests, it is imperative that members of the non-Black community make their support a life-long commitment even after the protests become less frequent. Educating oneself is one of the most important parts of long-term activism, so here is a list of books related to the BLM movement to get you started:
This gripping and exciting story narrates the life of Shahrzad, a young sixteen-year-old girl who falls victim to Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan who marries women every night and kills them the next morning.