In recent years, I’ve fallen out of reading dystopian and environmentalist science fiction—so I thought, why not get back into it? When I read the synopsis for Land of Milk and Honey, I was fascinated by the idea of what survival might look like in a dying, famished world, and C Pam Zhang did not…Continue Reading Book Review: Land of Milk and Honey
Black women. Pregnancy. Education. Race. Wealth. Adoption. All of these topics converge in New York Times Bestselling Author Sadeqa Johnson’s newest book, The House of Eve. First, I want to mention how acclaimed this book has become. The House of Eve has become a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese’s Book Club pick, a Target…Continue Reading Book Review: The House of Eve
Queer Graphic Novels Queer graphic novels have found their way into the mainstream in recent years, from Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home in 2006 all the way to Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper, which became a major Netflix coming-of-age TV series in 2022. Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer won a Stonewall Honor in 2020, and became the most challenged…Continue Reading Book Review: The Girl From the Sea
As the summer wraps up, I have been finishing some personal projects and goals I had formulated at the beginning of break, with that I have been wanting to finish with an even 20 books read since the beginning of summer break and have used the current Book Display full of staff recommendations to fulfill…Continue Reading Book Review: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
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
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
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
Did you know that there is an entire day dedicated to video games? Every year, the nation celebrates National Video Game Day on July 8, and recently, I read a book that would be perfect to talk about on such an occasion. One of the most popular books of 2023 was “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and…Continue Reading Book Review: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
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