Tag: fiction
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May 2026 Reading Recap
Already have way through June, and I’m only just making the time to write my May reading recap. Doesn’t bode well, does it? In May 2026, I read 26 books, which was pretty good and nearly my goal for the month, and I DNF’d one that I was really looking forward to, but simply coudn’t…
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April 2026 Reading Recap
We are 33% of the way through the year, and am I 33% of the way through my reading goals? I am not, but I’m a lot happier with how much reading I was doing this month, and I’m almost done with a long book I was looking forward to reading. Let’s recap my reading…
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February 2026 Reading Recap
Can you believe we’re already three months into the year? It’s been a crazy two months, and I feel like I’ve hardly read anything at all, but then I look at my Goodreads account, and it says I’ve read 37 books this year! That’s a great start towards my goal of 250 books this year…but…
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Reading a 1775 Cinderella Story
It’s a small book, just a smidge larger than my palm, and more rectangular. The cover was once maybe green, maybe brown, but has faded and molted in a way that looks almost mossy. It is bound together with twine woven up and down the spine. I’m at the Smathers Library on the University of…
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Crying in the Archives: “Hid in the Heart” and a Diary of Grief
I’ve spent three weeks of my summer in rainy, rainy, rainy (yes, it has rained every single day) Gainesville, Florida as the 2025 ALSC Bechtel Fellow, where I’ve been studying the papers of Margaret Sidney, a 19th century children’s novelist best known for The Five Little Peppers series. While I’ve been reading the books, my…
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5 Ted Talks About Literature Everyone Should Watch
I love Ted Talks.
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Author Spotlight: Colson Whitehead
I discovered Colson Whitehead when he exploded as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
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Author Spotlight: Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Less, but it wasn’t his debut novel.
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14 Books By Professors I Had in College
In honor of Back to School time and the fact that I’m low on ideas right now, here’s a list of books by professors I had during my undergraduate career at Yale.
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Sourdough
Does your bread sing when it’s cooking and smell like bananas and maybe have a magical history and a mind of its own? Oh, well the bread in Sourdough by Robin Sloan does all of that
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Heads of the Colored People
Heads of the Colored People is a short story collection by Nafissa Thompson-Spires that you must had to your TBR pile right now.
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October Releases
Check out these big October book releases
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