Books
Grab your most beloved ’90s romantic comedy and shovel the gooey treat into a paperback book. Next, sprinkle a dash or two of culture, mold in one strong and super hijabi heroine and pour in a gallon of hilarity. Sweet! You’ve got Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik! The typical rom-com is simple,
Paranormal fantasy and romance is a genre that gets a lot of flack in the literature world. Many refuse to consider it literature and cast judgmental looks whenever they spot that worn paperback in your arms. Well ignore the haters—paranormal books are some of my favorite books. They manage to straddle the line of fantasy
Between The World And Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, is written as a letter from a father to his son. This letter describes his life as a black child and spans to his life as a black man, black husband, black worker and black father. It describes how the word “black” shapes not only nations, but
As a long established introvert, books became my safe haven as early as the age of five. One of my earliest memories is sitting outside on my porch with a notebook on my lap and not a clue on how to write. Naturally, crayon in hand, I scribbled away and made my very own dialect
The overwhelming grievance of the Percy Jackson fandom is that the movies, in quite a typical Hollywood fashion, betrayed the books for a more glamorized rendition. The plot of the movies barely resemble that of the books, to the point that the only similarity is the characters (and even they are extremely distorted versions of
Hillary Clinton recently announced the publishing and release of her new book — a memoir explaining the deep loss in regards to the 2016 Presidential Election both literally and mentally. Her defeat by Donald Trump could not have been easy, as anyone can imagine, and this upcoming memoir — set to be released Sept. 12
In honor of The Hate You Give being back on the New York Time’s Bestsellers List, we’re bringing you five books with important representation that have been lingering in the background of pop-culture for a little while. Each of these books is different from one another in the representation that they portray, but all are important.
Gillian ‘Frickin’ Flynn needs to stop. She needs to stop being such an amazing author. I’ve only read two books by her so far and the one I just finished was a short story she wrote for George R. R. Martin.I don’t usually read ghost stories, but The Grownup was a book that I couldn’t put
Photo Content Credit: Rojal, darsh.kaur, and Larisa Koshkina Societies construct heroes that represent and embody the ideals of those who create them and read about them. There is a stark contrast between a hero at the time of Beowulf and Hamlet’s creation and heroes that are created in modern times. Current literature, movies, and television portray
I’ve always liked comics. As a kid, I would go to the library’s graphic novel section, and pick out two or three that looked interesting. Pretty quickly, I found that a lot of the superhero stuff was confusing, and usually built off years of old stories. So I would pick up stand alone graphic novels,
“But how quick is the shift of passions from one extreme to another! and how little are they acquainted with the human heart who dispute it!” – ‘Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure’ by John Cleland, 1748 Prior to the publication of D.H Lawrence’s famed Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928 erotic novel about a female
1.Ms Marvel Ms Marvel is arguably one of the best marvel books around. Kamala Khan is a Pakistani-Muslim teenager in Jersey City fighting crime all while trying to keep her personal life at peace. She is such a relatable character and is one of the most diverse books in the comic industry right now. G.
