Candice Iloh’s novel in verse, Every Body Looking, is a coming-of-age story that explores themes of identity, belonging, and self-discovery.
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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
With novels it is a different experience than comics and movies, we are able to use our imagination.
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.
This book reveals how truly precious life is and how every moment of it is special.
Everything about this story is charming and the drawings used as examples of the artist’s work are a joy to look at.
When it gets rainy and cloudy outside so chilly it seeps into my bones, there is nothing I want to do more than get a book off my shelf and get lost in the words of each page, seeking a new adventure every time the weather is as gloomy as it can get.
Franz Kafka wrote, “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
Reading is a form of escape from the real world. A small break from the hardships one can face in normal everyday life.
Julia was always seen as the “black sheep” of her family, looked down upon for not being like her older sister Olga. So when she is expected to fill the very small and perfect shoes Olga left behind after passing away, she struggles to keep up.
