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Oye by Melissa Mogollon I don’t know how to talk about this book without sounding like a wild-eyed fangirl pero ahí les va. Columbian American teen Luciana has been tasked with serving as caretaker to her abuela while trying to get through her senior year of high school. She’s also trying to convince Abue to […]
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Has anyone else read this series? I just finished all 10 volumes (2 trilogies and a tetralogy), and I find myself thinking about it often. The worldbuilding is superb, the action is well written, the supporting characters are loveable, and the main characters are, for the most part, severely unlikeable. I would categorize this series […]
it’s ironic that the book i was supposed to finish in high school (almost TEN years ago) and dnf’d three times in the last 2 years, not only ended up being 4.25 ⭐️ but also being book 100 for 2024. wow. i was the kid growing up who read every single book in all of […]
“To look at the Earth from space is a bit like a child looking into a mirror and realising for the first time that the person in the mirror is herself. What we do to the Earth we do to ourselves,” the novelist and winner of this year’s Booker prize, Samantha Harvey, said in her […]
I've decided to read Plutarch's Lives. However, I'd really prefer a single volume physical copy, but im having a really hard time finding one. Does one exist, and if so which one would you suggest? If not, are there any multi-volume editions that you trust amd recommend? There are dozens if not hundreds on Amazon […]
They made their names with A Fistful of Dollars, the first in a series of spaghetti westerns that became classics of 20th-century cinema. But the Italian director Sergio Leone had such a poor grasp of English that, between takes, he would repeatedly rely on the words “watch me” before miming whatever he wanted from his […]
Maybe the title is self explanatory, maybe not. I am curious to see how other readers learn new vocabulary when reading text. Do you highlight new words and look them up later? Do you just use context clues to guess at the meaning? I am reading a book right now that i love but there […]
Welcome readers, Over the last several weeks/months we've all seen an uptick in articles about schools/towns/states banning books from classrooms and libraries. Obviously, this is an important subject that many of us feel passionate about but unfortunately it has a tendency to come in waves and drown out any other discussion. We obviously don't want […]