Books, Arts, and Culture

If you are reading this post, you are probably a teacher, parent, or someone else who spends time with beginning readers. You know the beautiful sound...

The term self-insert has always fascinated me. A character who’s a blank slate, who allegedly a group of diverse readers can replace with themselves and lose...

Whether you think Marie Kondo’s methods are the best or the worst, there’s no denying that with the adaptation of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up on Netflix...

I write about prison writers, so I might be biased, but I often love prison narratives, be it fiction or memoir. That said, it can be...

Amandla Stenberg is surely the reigning queen of YA film adaptations, with The Hate U Give, Everything, Everything, The Hunger Games, and more under her belt....

I love Valentine’s Day. I have no shame about saying this, and while I understand the dislike many have because they’re not in a romantic relationship,...

Getting into the world of Star Wars outside of the films can be daunting. Add all the spin-offs and TV series, comics, and books, and it’s...

Back in 2016, DC announced a relaunching of their entire publishing line, branded as DC Rebirth. Gone was the highly controversial “New 52” that they had...

A few years ago, I finally got up the courage to call myself fat. This was not a self-flagellating decision!  I was inspired to reclaim the...

The novels Bird Box and The Road are discussed in this post. Both warrant a content warning for gruesome violence and suicide (though neither is discussed...