ARC Review: In Tongues by Thomas Grattan
Guest Writer // Grace Mattsen This book is exciting, funny, and raw. Gordon is lost. He is twenty-four and floundering around New York City in the early 2000s. Estranged from…
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The Chalice of the Gods or The Chalice of Qualms: Is the Percy Jackson Franchise Continuing Strong or Is it Going Downhill?
Guest Writer // Camryn Lehr I first picked up a Percy Jackson book, The Lightning Thief, when I was in third grade. I was instantly hooked from the first sentence: “Look,…
Increased “Smut” in YA literature
Guest Writer // Tessa Donohue In the rise of popularity in reading, specifically within the YA genre, it has become evident that romance sells. Or, more specifically: smut sells. In…
On the Value of Fantasy Novels
Elliot Berkley // Guest Writer You’re introducing yourself in a new lit class, and the professor asks what everyone’s favorite genre is. As the domino chain of answers makes its…
ARC Review: A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Grace Mattsen // Staff Writer A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda When Priya and Ashok Shah move their family to the affluent Pacific Hills, California, neighborhood, they feel like…
The Switch: Goodreads to The StoryGraph
By Elisabeth Grass Every avid reader, and most not-so-avid readers, know about the wildly popular book-logging site Goodreads. It has been the frontrunning social cataloging website for years, and currently…