Sarah S. Davis is the founder of Broke by Books, a blog about her journey as a schizoaffective disorder bipolar type writer and reader. Sarah's writing about books has appeared on Book Riot, Electric Literature, Kirkus Reviews, BookRags, PsychCentral, and more. She has a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Library and Information Science from Clarion University, and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
I can’t believe it, but this blog, Broke by Books, is ten years old last month! I started this book blog as
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I’m back to blogging! It’s been an eventful last sixteen months as I have had to decide which way to pivot after this blog, my beloved Broke by Books, has seen a catastrophic collapse in traffic after I, like many,
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This post is a quick little appreciation of some of the best picture books to come out in the first half of 2019. I’m reading more picture books than ever, thanks to
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This week, I’m writing about my top-ten favorite books from when I was just a young little bookworm. Since I’m just on the cusp of starting my next semester in my kid
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In this, my fifth year of blogging, I’ve decided to refocus my goals for the blog. To date, I’ve successfully achieved my main objective of creating original bookish content on a variety
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It’s been six months since my recap of my first semester in my MFA program, so I thought I’d do an update on the second semester, which I just finished. I am
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Ah, summer reading. Arguably, the summer is the season of books, with all-star authors releasing their latest fighting it out against highly anticipated debuts for who will be the blockbuster, bestselling beach
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Last year, I wrote an article that listed my 15 best tarot books for beginning to advanced readers. I was pleasantly surprised to see this post get so much traffic. Apparently there
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I’m writing a novel. You’re writing a novel. We’re all writing or reading novels. But how long is too long? How short is too short? If you’re obsessing over how many words
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Today is the first Tuesday in May, which marks the beginning of the publishing month. (For those who don’t know, publishers release most of their new books on Tuesdays.) And my, oh
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I picked up The Club (2019), the debut novel by Der Spiegel author Takis Würger on the strength of Megan Abbot’s book blurb: “Wildly entertaining.” And I’m glad I gave this novel
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There are so many awesome graphic novels for kids these days, but where to start? Graphic novels for children are becoming increasingly popular, with kid lit publishers releasing child graphic novels all
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