2018 Reading Challenge

Happy New Year, Germies, and welcome to our 3rd annual reading challenge! The past two years I’ve given you checklists to complete over the course of the year with different genres and authors and such so that you might read a little more diversely than you would have without it. This year, I’ve gone a […]

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Leigh Bardugo: Diversity, Relationships, and Her New Adult Series

Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling Six of Crows series defies expectations. Its pages are filled with female empowerment, complicated anti-hero protagonists, dangerous heists and cons, and witty dialogue. The series follows six main characters — Kaz, Inej, Nina, Jesper, Matthias, and Wylan — through a deadly heist, a mission to recover one of their own, and a […]

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Life International

So many different aspects make up who you are today — likes, dislikes, hobbies, friends, family, choices, religion, nationality — and yet, until a few months ago, I had never been given the opportunity to embrace these variations in people. Moving to Dubai, an extremely multicultural, global city, gave me the chance to understand the […]

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