I think I would immediately have to quit my job if I accidentally hooked up with my boss. Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory is a wine-buzzed ride through Napa Valley. A you-never-know-when-you’re-going-to-fall-in-love story, Margot and Luke meet at a local bar in Napa Valley and they instantly click. After a night of a passionate […]
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In Jasmine Guillory’s By the Book, Isabelle landed her dream job as an editorial assistant at Tale As Old As Time (TAOAT) right after college. But at 25, she’s still living at home, and on top of being the only Black employee at TAOAT, she has not been promoted. Izzy has almost given up on
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Near the end of the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial, I started reading Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste. It tells the story of Lucy and Bertha, victims of two iconic men: Dracula and Mr. Rochester. Lucy and Bertha are living in Los Angeles in the 1960s, in a world in which their abusers
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The episodes begins with Mariquita reviewing one of her new favorite young adult books titled Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson. Piecing me together is a beautiful coming of age novel about a young Black girl in North Portland. Then in the second segment, Ashley speaks with Iman Hariri-Kia about her debut novel, A Hundred
Heather Havrilesky’s Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage is more than just a memoir about marriage. As its title suggests, the book is a no-holds-barred deep dive into what really happens in that slow stringing together of day-to-day life that is the reality of “happily ever after.” Outrageously hilarious and deeply vulnerable, Foreverland is
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GOODREADS DESCRIPTION: An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth E. Richie. As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment, halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape
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Do you ever get to the end of the year and wish you had read just a few more new releases? Sally’s here to help! She’s read over 50 releases from 2022 and has sifted through her reviews to pull out her top five new releases (so far). Then, in honor of our Women in
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(tw: depression, mental health) I have been diagnosed with severe depression twice. I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) my sophomore year of high school and, in my second year of college, I was diagnosed with ADHD. Doctors have recommended that I don’t medicate, as the medication for one chemical imbalance may negatively offset
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Gabrielle Zevin’s new novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, traces 30 years of friendship between Sadie Green and Sam Masur as they grow from young game lovers to seasoned video game creators. It is a novel that manages to be as smart as it is sentimental, while also offering an insightful and fun glimpse into
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[CW: childhood abuse and neglect] Phoebe Walsh, the protagonist of Love in the Time of Serial Killers, is the epitome of a true crime junkie. She has even gone so far as to become a Ph.D. candidate. Her dissertation? Analyzing the true crime genre. However, her hearty interest in true crime has left her slightly
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Books and stories are so important to me. I believe they really do have the power to change the world because they have the power to change us as readers. So when I came across the book Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi, I was giddy with delight.
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The Women Could Fly is Megan Giddings’s second novel. A standout work of literary science fiction, it is chilling in its portrayal of a society where witches are real and every woman is in danger of being accused of being one. At the age of 28, all women are subject to a complicated system of
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