“You’re a wizard, Harry.” As a bibliophile and a parent, you’re so eager for the day your kid is ready to read those words and enter the wizarding world of Harry Potter. But along with fanciful components like letter-delivering owls, chocolate frogs, a hidden train platform, and an enchanted Sorting Hat, come darker elements, like […]
“You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.” “You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes.”
It has been long been prophesied that girls just want to have fun. What that age-old wisdom neglects to mention is that girls have the most fun when they’re running the world. Literature carries the point, offering up a fair few femmes who fatally smashed the glass ceiling. These ladies don’t just elevate the stories they […]
