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The great thing about annotating is you might understand the text once you read it, but then it slips your mind as the day goes on. I’m going to ramble on for a few paragraphs about why you should be annotating what you read and how to not just read...
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...
Since a very young age, I have been obsessed with books. Series like The Berenstain Bears, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and even Cam Jansen was a big part of my childhood. However, it wasn’t until I read Harry Potter, along with Charlotte’s Web, that I truly understood how people...
As a recent college graduate, this argument has always been on my mind since the pandemic a couple of years ago. Taking online classes introduced me to the convenience of having digital copies of textbooks instead of having to worry about physically going to a store and buying them or...
With the start of the new year, there are so many new books being anticipated by book lovers. This year features much talked about political movements, such as the issues with gun violence and inflation, as well as new releases from best-selling authors Jenny Odell, Margaret Atwood, and Eleanor Catton....

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