Going Bovine

First lines are powerful. It’s the author’s best chance to hook the reader. A great first line will pull you in, introduce you to the narrator, and set the tone for the entire book. Depending on what you’re reading, a great first line can be funny or meaningful or sad or somehow all of the above. […]

There’s no such thing as a bad time for reading, there are just those days when you can’t figure out what, exactly, your Goldilocksy brain wants. No matter what kind of reading slump you’re dealing with, I’ve got recs that will bust through it like Kool-Aid Man breaking and entering his way into a kid’s birthday party. Because […]

Hello, listeners, and welcome to Night Vale. Or, more accurately, welcome to another post about your favorite bizarro small-town wonderland. Undoubtedly, you’ve already consumed whole the new Welcome to Night Vale novel, itself a fresh look at the town that built a podcast and a small tube-shaped pasta ideal for making baked ziti. I’m kidding about […]

Everything is life or death when you’re a teenager. The angst, the drama, the joy, the pain—it’s why we read YA. And amid all that plot and all those feels, there are some real life lessons to be learned. But sometimes it doesn’t feel like medicine. It feels like magic. It feels like discovery. These […]