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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I have decided to reopen that book— the one I abandoned, early last summer, heeding the advice of Suzy and Barbara, and the New York Times reviewer who crowned it absorbing, enthralling, and a host of other superlatives I didn’t feel when I banged it shut in the middle of page 32. “You’re right,” Suzy […]
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A reader’s day starts with words. They open their eyes in their beds with their first thought being how many pages they can get through today. The reader sitting at their breakfast table, bright eyes scanning across the page of a hardcover with vigor. A new book, the same routine. But if you could see […]
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Have you ever tried to read something in a foreign language? A short story, a book, or maybe an article? If yes, you will know that it is hard and mostly frustrating. I would often start to read a book in a foreign language and only read a few pages because it is very annoying […]
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Ahhh — summer. It’s a time when some of us slow down, relax, watch the bees buzzing around our flower gardens, or catch up on our favorite Netflix series. But, it can also be a flurry of activity for those using their free days days to make some money with jobs or to broaden their […]
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Many people have often asked me why I read and it is because of the feeling; this feeling. This feeling of being lost in a world that doesn’t exist the same for two people, This feeling of loving characters that you’ve only read about so deeply that it can move you to tears, it’s the […]
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“A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future.” –John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back To simply describe John Corey Whaley’s debut novel as an original, contemporary coming-of-age story about growing up in a small town would not even begin to cover things. It is a heartbreaking read and a hopeful read at the […]
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This month’s book, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, tells the story of an orphaned girl’s coming-of-age and her quest for a home. Throughout the novel, Jane develops a strong sense of self-worth and struggles to find a balance between love and freedom. Perhaps the universal relatability of the novel lies in its strong feminist, moral, […]
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Diverging into crevices, rotting away, hidden. An intellectual decay, a sophisticated savage, deploring for substance, my sustenance. Longing for a cover to devour, for a cause to fixate and a persona to adapt. Musty inhabiting between the coarse layers where comfort and the concepts of superiority are my neighbours. Occupying the space on a bookcase, […]
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