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  • Book of the Month: The Handmaid’s Tale

    I’m sure a book this well known needs no summary. I mean it has like two netflix adaptations and is taught in various high schools, so I’ll get to it. I read it during high school, and didn’t have many new insights on it other than how scarily accurate and timely it is. My friend…

  • Beth is Dead Review

    When Beth March is found dead in the woods on New Year’s Day, her sisters vow to uncover her murderer. Suspects abound. There’s the neighbor who has feelings for not one but two of the girls. Meg’s manipulative best friend. Amy’s flirtatious mentor. And Beth’s lionhearted first love. But it doesn’t take the surviving sisters…

  • Silverhawks: Wings of War Review

    A NEW STORY ARC BEGINS WITH THE GALAXY’S GREATEST HEIST!Rebuilding a criminal empire doesn’t come cheap, and Mon*Star needs a big score to keep the credits flowing – the bigger, the better. There’s only one target that really fits the bill: the treasury planet, Dolar!If the resurgent mobster can pull it off, he’ll have enough…

  • Silverhawks: Partly Metal, Partly Real Review

    Recruited from every corner of known space by the Federal Interplanetary Force, the SilverHawks were engineered to be the first line of defense against Limbo’s ruthless agents of chaos. In the nearby galaxy of Limbo, the deadly mob boss Mon*Star has escaped from his confinement on Penal Planet 10 — and he’s looking to take…

  • Thoughts on Poetry

    Well, it’s National Poetry Month. I think it’s obvious from a perusal of my blog that I don’t read poetry much. It’s too empheral for me who likes to grasp themes and character arcs rather than F E E L I N G S. I know books are subjective, but poems feel even more so…

  • Author Highlight: Katherine Applegate

    I first became acquainted with her when I was in lower school thanks to the ever popular (At least I hope it still is popular in a cult sort of way) Animorphs series. It even had a tv show as it dealt with PTSD, genocide, and despairing, everyone is miserable in the end alien invasion.…

  • Women’s History Books

    Here it is, the annual updated list of women’s history books. One for each day of the month. Maybe even the year. Enjoy!

  • Women’s History Month Memoirs

    After stealing the spotlight as a teenaged Broadway performer during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Josephine then took Paris by storm, dazzling audiences across the Roaring Twenties. In her famous banana skirt, she enraptured royalty and countless fans—Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso among them. She strolled the streets of Paris with her pet cheetah…

  • Excerpt #3

    I got to go to my first Ren Faire in college, and it was such a fun experience seeing the acrobats, the amazing costumes of other guests and of course, the funnel cake. I wanted to give the same experience to Kitty, so onward to Camelot.

  • Ranking Enola Holmes Mysteries

    Made even more popular by the Netflix adaptation, I read this series back in middle school and as implied by the title, it follows the disgraceful, very late in life, younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. Upon her mother’s abandonment, and the threat of boarding school, Enola runs off to London where she unintentionally gets up…