Dark Academia Books
The school year has officially begun, and my tweed jacket and leather satchel are ready for the world. I am no longer in school, but I still enjoy pretending that I could actually be capable of learning new things. In…
20 Signs You Might Be a Bookworm
The word bookworm is defined as “a person unusually devoted to reading and study.” If you ask me, there’s nothing unusual about it. As any good bookworm knows, this is a legitimate lifestyle. I have a certificate and everything. I…
Erica’s Book Talk: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Evelyn Hugo is an aging Hollywood actress who is finally ready to tell her side of the story. After years of bad press about her love life, Evelyn hires a young journalist named Monique Grant to write a tell all…
Books to Read if You Love Cottagecore
Summer is in full swing and so is my basket of foraged berries. My basket might actually be full of Welch’s fruit snack berries, but I’m trying my best. This past year, the fashion aesthetic, Cottagecore, has been a big…
Top 5 Books of 2021… So Far
Believe it or not, we are halfway through 2021! I still accidentally write 2007 on every single paper that I encounter, but I can recognize that we are in fact living in 2021. I have noticed my reading patterns changed…
Book Recommendations Based on Your Starbucks Order
There are very few things that go together better than coffee and books (except for maybe tons of money and my bank account). My favorite thing about most days is the time when I get to curl up with a…
It’s All Greek To Me: Greek Mythology Fiction
Greek mythology has survived its founding civilization by over 2,000 years. It has wormed its way into most aspects of our lives—not only do we regularly see classical images in art and architecture, but we can also use it to…
Erica’s Book Talk: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Time travel before coffee might seem outlandish, but that’s exactly what happens in Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for…
10 Simple Ways To Go Zero Waste
As a child, my awareness of the environment was mostly thanks to the movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest, the story of a fairy living in the rainforest whose home is being destroyed by a logging company. We would watch it every…
Erica’s Book Talk: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harar comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred…