Books
Poet Rupi Kaur responded with disappointment to a report that her book of poetry “Milk and Honey” is one of the most banned books in the U.S. this year....
With people having more access to the internet in their homes, there is less of a need for libraries from the public. This confronts libraries with the threat of closing. This leads to the question of: do we still need libraries? The short and simple answer is yes, and here...
Basketball star Brittney Griner says she is working on her memoir detailing her experience of being arrested and incarcerated in Russia for drug charges. Griner was detained for ten months after Russian authorities said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage in Moscow at the Sheremetyevo Airport....
For a long time, libraries were known to be for adults only, and kids were not to belong in libraries. Today, kids thrive in libraries with many groups, kid reading circles, a whole section dedicated to learning, and books of all fun. Alice in Wonderland, Diary of the Wimpy Kid,...
And while every book reader has an individualized perspective on what makes a good book, sometimes there are books that appeal to the satisfaction of every type of reader. Getting into a reading with no idea what to expect can be a rush that most readers enjoy. However, every now...
Emily Henry’s novel Book Lovers will be adapted into a feature film. Movie rights have been sold to Lia Buman’s Tango production company, and the film will be written by Sarah Heyward, known for “Girls" and “Modern Love.”...
someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also trying to corral our kids back to Hawthorne and Hemingway, Dante, and Dickens....
The series is said to be a season for each book. So season one, for example, would be “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” and so on. It has been 12 years since the last Harry Potter movie, and times are changing, and so will the series. Many wonders fill...
Classic literature also reveals our dark history and possibly dark present in a way that whitewashed history books do not. This can be seen in books like The Scarlett Letter, which reveals the way a women’s sexuality was seen back then, or To Kill a Mockingbird, which holds the unfortunately...
In my sophomore year of college, I took an English course with a young, fiery-tongued professor; who used the class as a…place to vent his worldly frustrations, as well as an incubator for the future. We traipsed through books that could also be journalistic variations on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle....
For those of you who don’t know what “Booktok” means, I will give you the rundown. It’s a new take on a book club in the form of social media. On the app, TikTok readers all over the world express their favorite books and come together as a community to...
For decades society has been a victim of censorship, whitewashing, and banning. Either history is told a different way, or it is retold in hushed tones. As if shouting, it would erupt mass chaos and destruction. Book banning can be seen in two ways: either an attempt at shielding younger...
