Felicia Gullotta // Blog Writer For those unfamiliar with the series Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen, I’m sorry for your loss. However, there is a way to atone for such a crime: run to your nearest library or…
Category: Reviews
Best-Selling Private Series to Become a Movie
Cynthia Ayala // Blog Writer For years, novels have been getting second lives on the big screen. Now, another Young Adult bestselling series is joining the club. Make way for Private, the 14-novel-long, bestselling series by Kate Brian, which follows…
Why Can’t All Books be Good Movies?
Victoria Kiarsis // Blog Writer I have seen numerous films that have been adapted from novels, and I’m also currently taking a class called Novel into Film. What I’ve learned through my experience inside and outside of this class is…
Review of The Hidden Letters of Velta B. by Gina Ochsner
Felicia Gullotta // Blog Writer If you were an ailing mother trying to tell your son his life’s story, where would you begin? Would you begin with his birth? Maybe a moment that stood out in his childhood? You could…
Make Lit Class Great Again: Maus and Maus II
Christina Bagni // Blog Writer Oh, yes, I’m well versed in comic books. I have about three issues of the vintage DC Comics Powerpuff Girls series in my attic, and I casually buy Archies at the supermarket, so clearly I…
Book vs. Movie: Eragon
Daniel Gonzalez // Blog Writer So imagine this: you’re a 3rd grade bookworm. You devour any book you come across, from the children’s series of Henry and Mudge to the five Harry Potter books. You’ve discovered a fascination with the…
Make Lit Class Great Again: Endgame Review
Felicia Gullotta // Blog Writer Students of literature classes often fall victim to death-by-repetition; the excruciating boredom and frustration that comes along with reading the same books, poems, and plays over and over again. Maybe that’s one of the reasons…
Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Christina Bagni // Blog Writer With Charlie Hebdo, a Hajj stampede, hijab fashion shows, and Donald Trump threatening to kick out all American Muslims, this fall was definitely a relevant time for me to take a history of Islam…
Book Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Daniel Gonzalez // Blog Writer Ready Player One by Ernest Cline One of the things I love about fiction is that it always projects things I’d love to do. I would be ecstatic if I got a letter to go…
The Book is Better than the Movie: 50 Shades of Grey
Daniel Gonzalez // Blog Writer Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L James is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I know, it’s supposedly a piece of trash, but hear me out. I think people are reading it the…