I NEED TO STOP BUYING BOOKS! My suitcase is going to be so heavy by the end of the semester that the airplane won't even be able to lift off the runway. But this time I swear I have a good reason! (I know I always say that, but I always do, ok?) This evening … Continue reading I Met Claire Fuller (Again)
The Fault in Fairy Tales
I'm supposed to be polishing up a final draft of my Textual Intervention piece right now. "Textual Intervention" is basically a fancy way of saying fan-fiction. Last semester, this is what I did for Textual Intervention. This semester, the genre we're working on is fairy tales. Instead of turning a fairy tale into something completely … Continue reading The Fault in Fairy Tales
How To Deal With Writers
Dear friends and family (but mostly family, especially the extended kind), I write a lot. It’s a thing I enjoy. I write fiction, mostly. Novels, short stories, articles, poems, whatever I want to write, I'll write. Mostly by hand for stuff that isn’t for school, but a lot of it is typed, too. My stories … Continue reading How To Deal With Writers
2015 Book Trends
With another year comes a tide of booklists, which I have scoured to make my own 2015 booklist (which you can read next week). And through scouring books upon books due for release this year, I have noticed some genres and tropes that are slowly becoming more popular, so I thought I'd add my two cents. … Continue reading 2015 Book Trends