I first picked up “Normal People” in an AirBnB over the summer. A navy clothbound hardback, stripped of its dust jacket with silver letters down the spine. I was in New Zealand, of all places, and...

It’s nearly June, and we are headed towards (optimistically speaking) the season where we decide which novels are worth spending valuable summer reading time on. It’s easy to stay in your comfort zone...

It all started with a TikTok. I was up later than I should’ve been (as per usual), thanks to the app’s addicting algorithm, when a 13-year-old girl graced my for-you page. Her video focus? “Icebreaker,”...

Every new year, hundreds upon thousands of Americans set their New Year’s Resolutions, committing themselves to daily exercise, the newest fad diet or a ridiculously high GPA. I have never been one to...

It’s 1813, and a novelist writes away at their dusty prose by candlelight—unbeknownst that in a century or two, a copy of their work would be read oceans away by contemporary readers. Classic books...

Imagine you’re fresh out of high school, attending a college everyone discourages you from just because they’re the kind of people to sneer at anything less than an Ivy League. Simply put, the standard...

Set in the humid and overgrown swamps of North Carolina, bookworms fell in love with “Where The Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens. An immediate bestseller after its release in 2018, this book stayed on...

Along with picturesque depictions of the Japanese countryside, you can find grotesque cat murder, pimp Colonel Sanders, a philosophical prostitute and buckets of water creatures literally falling from...

Although many great books were published in 2021, none of them even scraped my list of all time favorites. However, as an avid bookworm I made my way through numerous books this past year. Out of the growing...

While not an epic page turner like Debbie Harry’s memoir “Face it,” “Remain In Love”(a nod to Talking Heads’ fourth studio album, “Remain in the Light”) transports the reader to the seventies...