Who doesn’t love a good mystery short story? Like many, I was hooked into the mystery genre by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Each one was a bite-sized package of
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I often tell people that Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Goldfinch (2013) is my favorite bookâand it’s true. The connection I felt when I read The Goldfinch in 2014 radically
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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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