books & feminism
May 7-13 is CMHA Mental Health Week. This week let’s #GetLoud, end stigma, and have meaningful conversations. Don’t let the title fool you: this isn’t a reflective piece that explores all the ways in…
LibraryReads favorite books of 2017. The art of the gift basket from Apartment Therapy. YES. I love this idea for Christmas! I don’t know about you, but I was counting down the days until Mindhunter…
The word “Feminism,” and the rich history of its proponents, needs to be reclaimed by today’s teens, via The Guardian. Hillary Clinton is neither a saint nor a demoness, via The Establishment. She is not our…
Electric Lit gives its two cents about the gender-swapped Lord of the Flies and gets it all wrong. Read It Forward gives some great recommendations of books for woke kids. Definitely going to be gifting…
This is a tad overdue. However, 2016 was a landmark year for me in many ways. Reflecting on this, here are the main things that stand out about my year. I kept my New Year’s…
Photo via Unsplash My dear friends of the blogosphere, There has been something I have been struggling with for a while: blogging. If you’ve stuck around this far,…
I don’t know if you recall, but in a previous post I mentioned that I was moving. Said move occurred two weeks ago. This is not just any move. This is the move. The…
Life has been super weird lately. Things had been going pretty well, everything seeming to fall into place. Then I felt a familiar, unwelcome twinge. I could sense a shadow lurking around the corner, waiting…
Hey guys, let’s catch up. This is inspired in part by the “If We Were having Coffee” posts on The PerpetualPage-Turner. It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted anything. And even when I was…
I had a blast in Mexico, guys! It was so much fun. Way too short, obviously, and it went by too fast, but it was great. I got to spend some time with family and…
How do you decide what to read next? For me this is often a time-consuming problem. I’m a mood reader–and I can be very moody. Sometimes I know right away what I want to read next.…
This week is banned books week. Hooray! I think this is an excellent thing. It brings the ideas of censorship, privilege, power, and fear to the forefront of our thinking and can make for some…
I don’t know about you, but I am very particular when it comes to reading. I’m not talking about what goes on in the book’s story—today I’m talking about the act of reading and…
Have you ever experienced book commitmentophobia? For me this is often the first symptom of an impending reading slump. I also experience this when the book is hella big. You feel me? This past week,…
