Powell Century Sees West Indies Into Series Lead
A maiden century for Rovman Powell saw West Series win the 3rd T20 international at the Kensington Oval in Barbados with the hosts leading 2-1 heading...
LGBTQ+ Books Quietly Pulled From Washington State Middle School
In what reads as a story we’re seeing frequently across the country, a school principal in Kent, Washington, has removed a series of books from Cedar...
How Reading Rilke Helped Me Deal With Grief
Months into the radio silence, Omi finally bid his adios. “I hope you find happiness, and I know you will,” he wrote in a goodbye email...
I Took Three Blind Dates With Books. Here’s What Happened.
I’ve been a huge fan of the “blind date with a book” idea since working in libraries, where I had to chance to create a themed...
The Great Unrequited Literary Crushes of the 1800s
Okay, so Hans Christian Andersen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Charles Dickens walk into a literary salon. If this sounds like the opening of a joke,...
8 Don’t-Miss 2022 Queer Graphic Novels & Memoirs
If there’s something better than a day spent marathoning a stack of queer graphic novels and memoirs…well, maybe it’s preordering a bunch of queer graphic novels...
8 Books About Doing Nothing To Help Break Free From Hustle Culture
Before we get into books about doing nothing, let’s talk about hustle culture. It brings to mind the image of glorified exhaustion and optimising every minute...
10 of the Best Children’s Books That Promote Critical Thinking
If you’re reading a post about children’s books that promote critical thinking, I assume you see the value in raising strong thinkers. Whether you’re a caregiver,...
A Case for Genre Juggling: Balancing Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
In 2016, I started tracking my annual reading statistics, organizing my finished books into fiction, nonfiction, and poetry: my passions as someone who reads and writes...
What I’ve Learned So Far Podcasting About Books
My first experience listening to podcasts dates back to 2017, when I started embroidering and decided to look up thread art shows. Later, when I considered...
