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Book Review: The Testaments

Gilead is many things to many people; terrifying, oppressive, safety, home, opportunity. In The Testaments, Margaret Attwood tells a story through three very different perspectives on the bleakly misogynistic Republic of Gilead. Agnes is a young woman raised in...

How to Stay Focused – Five Top Tips

We live in a world of seemingly endless distractions, and it can be fantastic—whether you want to check out what your childhood best friend is up to on Instagram, look up some Pin-spiration for what to cook of an evening or catch up on the latest Twitter controversy,...

Book Review: Looking for Alaska

Miles Halter, or ‘Pudge’ as he comes to be known, is headed to boarding school. Culver Creek, the school his father attended before him, is where Miles hopes to find… something. He isn’t entirely sure what. What he ends up finding, or who he ends up finding, is Alaska...

If They Liked… Book Recommendations for Gift Giving!

We’re most of the way through November now, and Christmas is just a few weeks away. If you and your friends/family celebrate with gift-giving you might be starting to wonder what you’re going to get for some of the people in your life—I know I am! Luckily, books make...

Book Review: The Stone Sky

The Stone Sky is the third book in N. K. Jemisin’s breathtaking Broken Earth trilogy, and while I’ll do my best to keep them to a minimum there will be some spoilers for book one (The Fifth Season) and book two (The Obelisk Gate). If you haven’t read those books...

Why You Should be Doing NaNoWriMo

and also, maybe, why you shouldn't... We’re almost halfway through November—how exactly did that happen?! And if you’re participating in NaNoWriMo you might be wondering why on earth you’re doing this to yourself. If you’re not participating this year, you might be...