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.
Dear reader, I can’t believe 2025 is over! My main goal for 2025 was not so much to reach a number of
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Autumn is basically here, but this list of the best new books fall 2025 has to offer heralds the unofficial start to the season. What is better than books, falling leaves, cozy blankets, and hot tea? Not much! Here’s my
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Recently I was feeling really bummed out. I was talking to my best friend on the phone and explaining that usually I start to tune a novel or premise out when it’s
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In the last week I got a few new books or holds in from the library, all of them YA, most of them new takes on classic tales like Cinderella, Beauty and the
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Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas My rating: 1 of 5 stars Oh my god… Do you ever have one of those experiences with a book where you binge-read it, put it
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Book Review of Laura Lee Anderson’s “Song of Summer” Ever since I adopted a deaf cat last fall, I have been trying to learn more about deaf culture. When I saw Song of
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Yesterday was the official half-way point of the year—hard to believe it, I know. Two weeks ago I had the semi-unhealthy idea to up my Goodreads reading challenge from 100 to 150 books for
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This week it was my brother’s birthday! I shall not reveal his age, but I will say he is older than me, and as such I am his kid sister. We are
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Recently it occurred to me that I own a lot of books. I’m not sure how this escaped my notice for so long. But I had absolutely been telling people, “I don’t
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A Little Personal History The first time I officially recognized my illness as a disability was in 2006 when I registered with Student Disability Services at Barnard College, which I attended at
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I resent the fact that almost any young adult novel with stylized, first-person teen male POV is automatically judged against John Green. It’s a shallow way of looking at what we should
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Many fiction fans get to the final page of a brilliantly immersive novel and immediately experience the crushing, numbing paralysis known as a “Book Hangover.” Dazed and disoriented, convinced that “nothing else
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