Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood is a collection of three STEM-romance stories. In the first story, “Under One Roof,” an environmental engineer, Mara, has inherited a home. The only catch? Mara has also inherited the roommate of her nightmares — a big-oil lawyer. Can diametrically opposed foes even cohabitate? In the second story, […]
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So, someone has recently come out to you. Or maybe you suspect someone will in the near future. Or maybe you just like reading blog posts about hypothetical situations that do not and will never apply to you. Whatever brought you here, welcome! I’m happy to help. Coming out can be a daunting process that
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The Opposite of Loneliness collects the essays and short stories of Marina Keegan, writer, journalist, and playwright, who attended Yale back in the early 2010s. Keegan was an avid writer and was set to work at The New Yorker after she graduated from college. Her future was bright with the promise of published works in
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I knew I would never be a member of Destiny’s Child. That fact became fully apparent when their song “Lose My Breath” entered the zeitgeist. I am trying to keep my breath. Beyoncé, Kelly, and Michelle stomped around in stiletto boots, cargo pants, and crop top parkas in dark alleys, asking, “Can you keep up?”
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I am not a big fan of sweeping New Year’s resolutions — for reading, or for anything else. I can be very goal-oriented, but I prefer to focus on flexible goals I can easily incorporate into my life, that I can revisit and change or meet with a degree of ease and move on from.
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The new year is right around the corner, and we have our sights set on all the 2023 book releases! Keep reading to see which titles the FBC staff is most looking forward to. Caution: Your TBR might fall over. Steph’s Picks: When we received Dial A for Aunties in one of our Feminist Book
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I used to roll my eyes when people told me they watched The Bachelor franchise. This was easy to do since I’d never actually watched a single episode. I just went off my preconceived beliefs about the show and anyone who watched it. But when my sister moved in with me in 2018, she sat
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Don’t let the title fool you; Dava Shastri’s Last Day is about so much more than Dava Shastri’s last day. Kirthana Ramisetti’s exciting and heartwarming debut novel is about the life of a self-made billionaire who has uncompromising ambition, serious concern about legacy, and deep — if sometimes misconstrued — love for her family. The
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Clothing retailers born in the Instagram era face a unique problem: how to create timely items while remaining profitable. Enter “fast fashion,” which aims to sell trendy items at low prices. But these items come with a significant cost to the environment, labor movements, and small businesses. Without singling out any brands, many fast fashion
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Neda Toloui-Semnani has had anything but a normal life Neda’s parents, Farahnaz Ebrahimi and Faramarz Toloui-Semnani, were vocal and enraged activists fighting to instill a revolution in Iran and shift the power back to the people rather than a monarchy under the Shah. Their work was primarily done in the United States, but they made
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Thanks to money, celebrity, and enticing ads with unfulfilled promises, wellness and self-care have become dominant industries. Journalist Rina Raphael has written a compelling book about these ever-growing industries in The Gospel of Wellness. I asked Rina about how wellness can be about curiosity, how wellness depends on location, celebrities’ influence on wellness, and how
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In The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care, Rina Raphael takes an in-depth look at the myriad ways wellness has infiltrated contemporary American life and how women, in particular, are under immense pressure to subscribe to ever-evolving and expanding definitions of “healthy” and “well.” People turn to this giant
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