In this issue, the X-Women take a break from heroics and have an unforgettable ladies’ night.
Book & Zine Reviews
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Sometimes the best thing to do on a break is to escape into a book that takes you far, far, away from everyday life and into romance, mystery, or a completely different world. Here are some of our suggestions.
The cooler days and longer nights of autumn are a great time to get comfortable with a book—or to get spooked by one. Here are some of our suggestions.
What I really enjoyed about the book was that it had a realistic perspective on women in their 40s dealing with regrets from their past and the “what if” outcomes of their choices.
The poems in this collection all bring forth some kind of emotion, each relatable in one way or the other for each person who reads them. Within these poems the reader is able to find one that speaks to them and find closure and comfort.
Among the crises the narrator is dealing with is her father’s aphasia—words lost to his stroke—and the jumble of words that compose each poem resembles her father’s struggle with language.
In the words of the gypsy fortune teller and Esma, “This boy, Teo, and I, Esma, Queen of Lightning, are on the path to being loyal friends for our long lives. . . . if our friendship lasts, we will save each other when no one else can. This is our destiny!”
Candice Iloh’s novel in verse, Every Body Looking, is a coming-of-age story that explores themes of identity, belonging, and self-discovery.
In We Should Hang Out Sometime, Josh Sundquist tells a variety of stories about his crushes, dates, and multiple attempts in finding a significant other, all ranging from humorous to heartbreaking.
When I Was Puerto Rican is an autobiography about the author, Esmeralda Santiago, and her experience growing up in Puerto Rico and the cultural, emotional, and environmental changes she went through moving to New York.
“The smallest person on the totem pole was supposed to be a worker and the one on the top was the one with the brains,” says Ashanti Alston in Black Anarchism
This book gave a better understanding of the difficulties of loss, how mental illness impacts people, as well as the understanding and support of those who are affected by these events.
