There was only one bad thing about the Veronica Roth #BNAuthorEvent, which took place at the Union Square location in Manhattan on Sunday, March 15—it ended. Roth, who is charming and likable, instantly made friends with the audience, sharing surprising facts about herself, interesting anecdotes about her writing, and things about Divergent you probably didn’t know. […]
Tomorrow Becky Albertalli’s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda hits the shelves, about a small-town boy who’s falling in love with a male classmate via anonymous (yet emotionally revealing) emails, but isn’t yet out to his family and friends. It’s about first love and coming out and coming of age, bursting with hope and joy and intensely quotable insight into trying to figure […]
The new adaption of A Wrinkle in Time opened over the weekend, and while overall reviews were mixed, one particular subsection of the audience gave it raves: kids. Which is perfectly understandable, considering Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 classic of space travel, tesseracts, and mysterious women who wander into your house in the middle of the night was […]
Let’s talk about everyone’s favorite phrase: “reluctant readers.” I’m firmly of the opinion that readers are only reluctant because they haven’t yet found a book that suits them, or are simply tired of only being handed books about thin, white, cishet protagonists. Whatever the reason may be, this list seeks to provide recommendations for many […]
Trying your hand at NaNoWriMo this year? Whether it’s your first year or your 18th (yes, NaNoWriMo has been around that long!), it’s easy to get caught up in the chaos and let things slip out of control when you’re fast-drafting a manuscript. Luckily, these writing pros have been there and done that, and they’ve got some […]