With the film adaptation of ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ by Suzanne Collins blowing up the box office since it premiered in theaters, it is only fair to go back and analyze the source material. Following the success of the original ‘The Hunger Games’ trilogy by Collins came four movies starring the likes of...
Look, he never wanted to be a high schooler. It’s been 14 years since our favorite son of Poseidon narrated a book, but he is back. “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods” is the first of a new trilogy by Rick Riordan in honor of the Disney+ show coming out in December. In this new series, the...
Graphic by: Gwyneth Gravador Picture this. You’re sitting in bed, next to the window, where you can see leaves on the trees outside turning red, orange and yellow. You tuck yourself under your favorite plush blanket and sip on a nice, warm pumpkin spice latte while immersed in the pages of a book. For any book...
The hottest fantasy book in town is Rebecca Yarros’s, ‘Fourth Wing.’ The first book in The Empyrean series is well deserved of its hype on Booktok and should be your never-ending pile of book recommendations. Violet Sorgiell trains all of her life to be a part of the Scribe Quadrient. Just three months before she...
Whether you used to be a frequent attendee at the Scholastic Book Fair or you consumed all of the books in a 12-novel-long fantasy series in high school, sometimes, we avid readers grow up and reach a reading block. Never to fear, no matter how long it’s been since you were able to finish a book unrelated to your...
On my latest murder mystery kick, I picked up “One of Us is Lying” by Karen M. McManus. This book went ninety miles an hour from start to finish, which led to me reading it all in one day. This story has many twists and turns that keep the reader guessing and wanting more. The book focuses on four teens from...
The first book in Lilith’s Brood trilogy, “Dawn” by Octavia E. Butler tells the story of Lilith Lyapo, an African American woman rescued by extraterrestrial species called the ‘Oankali’, who saved the remaining humans on Earth after a nuclear war. After centuries of suspended animation, Lilith wakes up on a spaceship...
As we're about to ring in a new year we reflect on 2021, and especially the books we read in between COVID spikes.
I hate when they act like they own the place. My rent relies on his tip, though. So I smile, pretending from behind my waterproof eyeliner that I’m not dying to go home and look at the TV until the cheap Merlot runs out. I clean up the table afterwards and go to my last one of the day. He wasn’t big, I remember that....
In the backyard, outside the screen, rain thunders down at nine just as violently as it did at six. My mother brushes the stray ash from my siblings’ cigarettes off the patio table with a sigh and an absent glance at the ashtray, crystal and overflowing again. I shove it aside; replace it with a coaster for my coffee,...
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