I love taking pictures. Whether they be of bumble bees in the Shakespeare Garden or of great mountains and canyons; I always enjoy snapping a shot of our beautiful world and taking it with me, a moment forever captured. I’ve always found photography to be one of my favorite art forms, and was excited to…Continue Reading Picture This!
I know, I know, I literally just talked about this book only one or two posts ago, but I think it is time to dive headfirst into one of the best books I have read all summer, Octavia E. Butler’s fantastical, yet terrifying speculative fiction of the modern day, “Parable of the Sower.” As stated…Continue Reading Book Review: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
It’s not often that you watch a film adaptation of a novel and ask yourself, “wow…was that actually better than the book?” Well, as I sat on my mattress turned couch, I pondered exactly that after indulging in the Netflix adaptation of “Leave the World Behind” originally written by Rumaan Alam. Unlike many of my…Continue Reading When the Movie Wins…? Book Review of Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Amir El-Chidiac has worked here at the Blough Weis Library since Summer of 2021 as our Research and Instruction Librarian, but sadly as this summer closes, so does their third and final year here at Susquehanna University. Today, I wanted to highlight the impact that Amir has had here at the library and the legacy…Continue Reading In Dedication to Amir: Prayer’s for My 17th Chromosome
As much as I dislike the summer season sweats, and am glad it’s almost over, I do love the free time it gives me to read, read, and read some more. Well, to put it more accurately, I spend my time listening to audiobooks, podcasts, and documentaries. I’ve always loved reading, but have often struggled…Continue Reading Audiobook August: Let’s Get Listening!
Back in my “Summertime Sadness” blog post I talked about a bunch of different topics, something I have been emphasizing more on in these recent posts, and given that it was recently Culinary Day, I wanted to talk more about food literature offered in our collection. Throughout this weekend there are many other unofficial holidays…Continue Reading Good Food Friday
Recently, celebs from all around have been throwing together their experiences in a memoir for their fans to read, and I have ignored them for the most part as I mainly see them as nothing more than another form of income for the already ultra-wealthy. But as I just finished bingeing “The Umbrella Academy” in…Continue Reading The Chaotic World of Celebrity Chronicles
In addition to Disability Pride Month, July also brings awareness to Minority Mental Health, and since I recently made a booklist about Disability Pride, I wanted to share some more books focused on the BIPOC and queer audience. In its full name, Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Month was established in July of…Continue Reading Minority Mentality Matters!
If you couldn’t tell from my previous blog posts, I love science fiction, especially anything all to do with astronomy. But above the spectacles of spaceships and super-societies, I find end-of-world dystopias to be even more fascinating. Seeing as tomorrow, July 20, is Moon Day (the 75th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on our lunar…Continue Reading Book Review: Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Artificial Intelligence is one of the hottest topics of debate, especially in the world of education, but did you know that in 2021 a group of people attempted to dedicate a day to it? Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Day was declared July 16, 2021, by a company known as A.I. Heart LLC. There is little information…Continue Reading AI: To Appreciate or Isolate
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