I’m back to blogging! It’s been an eventful last sixteen months as I have had to decide which way to pivot after
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Welcome to my roundup of the Best Books of 2023! Wow, can you believe it’s nearly 2024? I’ve mostly had a pretty good year, packed with great reading, a good amount of writing, and a little bit of blogging, although
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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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I came of age in the Bush years, when politics felt like a discouraging, fixed game for adults. But long about my junior year in high school, I started to feel called
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Sure, you remember your favorite books from childhood fondly, but how well do you really know them? Since I started MFA program in writing for children and young adults, I’ve been rereading
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I’m writing this list of the best websites about books for me five years ago. Back then I was deep in the beginning of learning about book world and would have welcomed
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I’ve always been kind of obsessed with journals. I grew up during the height of Dear America books, Amelia’s Diaries, and other epistolary novels, like Bridget Jones’s Diary, that had a profound
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Ever wonder how to recommend books? My love for giving people book recommendations led me to pursue my Master’s of Library Science. I just loved connecting readers with great books, and the
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I’ve long been intimidated by writing short stories, but in my first semester as an MFA student, I finally took the plunge and gave it a go. I was lucky enough to
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It often feels like the world is a cold, dark place, especially today in modern times. I turn to fiction as both a place to escape our grim day-to-day and as an
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Over the years, I’ve steadily been working my way through prolific author Neil Gaiman’s publications, recommending them here on the blog and just about everywhere. The more I’ve read by him, the
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