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It’s safe to say 2017 was a year of great book releases. Between Strange The Dreamer by Laini Taylor, History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera and Turtles All The Way Down by John Green, it’s hard to beat 2017 books. And we can’t forget The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas —
Despite being overall a pretty terrible year, 2017 has brought us some pretty amazing young adult books, so here are my top 5: 1. Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu Moxie is the perfect girl power book that explores everything from sexist dress codes and intersectional feminism to to the power of friendship between girls. The book
Nowadays, with same-sex marriage getting legalized in more and more countries, you would think the same would happen with the representation these character get in the media, right? Wrong. LGBTQ+ characters and couples keep getting bashed, killed or treated poorly, either by being wrongly written or merely by getting little screen time. A few of
We are familiar with reading about love as the most powerful, beautiful and most positive human experience possible, but Oscar Wilde, in the XIX century, didn’t have the same opinion. In fact, his marriage with a woman was a failure. Maybe because they had their own personal problems, but most likely because they married only
In segregated America, progressives used the slogan “we all bleed the same blood” to counter the division, but in Mare Barrow’s world, blood is exactly what divides them. A young adult dystopian called Red Queen is my favorite piece of literature for multiple reasons. Blood divides Mare’s world; having red blood means one is inferior
Autumn has always been the season associated with warm colors and reading, so here are six books you need to read or re-read this autumn: 1. The ‘Harry Potter’ series by J.K Rowling You may be going back to school and desperately wish you were actually going to Hogwarts. Although anytime is a great time to read Harry
This poem is about my mom. I’ve known her for only seventeen years of her life — she was a whole different person before I was born. She didn’t have me until she was thirty-five; she had another life at the time. I think it is safe to say that almost all teenagers love to
I wrote this poem as a way to show how dominance in a relationship can truly change it for the worse. This particular piece shows how this bright, inspiring girl can change from simply one boy being in her life — this not excluding other cases such as gay, lesbian, etc. relationships. Treatment like this
I’ll admit, it was hard to find a proper way to explain this poem. I’d found motivation to write this when writing about a wildhearted character who doesn’t necessarily have a story yet. When writing this girl, I realized that I can connect with her in this wildhearted way, and it brought me back to
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
Never Trust a Fox The clenching of Jackson’s heart and the tightening of his chest sent a painful ache up and down his core. Keep running, keep running, keep running, he told himself. With only the moonlight to guide him and the knives at his side to protect him, Jackson curved both vertical and horizontal
The Brain is an informative nonfiction book written by David Eagleman, an American neuroscientist and writer at Baylor University. This book not only goes into detail and the real science about the brain and what goes on in the darkness of an ordinary skull, but it also faces the reader with the cold hard questions,
