If you’ve opened a newspaper, a magazine, your favorite blog, or turned on your favorite morning news program any time over the last couple months, you’ll have seen the coverage of what so many have found startling: that women like to read about sex. The sensation over Twilight fanfiction turned bestseller with a six figure… Continue reading 50 Shades of Grey
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The Slow Burn: April & Oliver by Tess Callahan
My sister has been studying abroad in Morocco this last semester. Though she’s never really dated a man before (her previous relationships have been with women), she’s fallen in love with a beautiful Arab man. Since they are living in a Muslim society, PDA is highly frowned upon. Male visitors are not allowed in her… Continue reading The Slow Burn: April & Oliver by Tess Callahan
Lorca, My Love
I’m in love. He’s been dead for decades and would have never returned my affection anyway, since his taste tended towards his own gender, but I love him. It’s an intellectual love, but a passionate one nonetheless. His name is Federico García Lorca.
What You Should Read
Joel Stein, who seems like a pretty big douche-bag, even though I think he’s just trying to be funny,* thinks you, and by ‘you’ he clearly means adult men, should not be reading Young Adult books. That’s the premise of his article, “Adults Should Read Adult Books” posted on the NYT’s Room for Debate opinion… Continue reading What You Should Read
Authors and Questions: A Conversation between Laura Moriarty and Mary O’Connell
I had the pleasure and privilege of attending an event at my local library where one of my favorite authors, Laura Moriarty, discussed the new release The Sharp Time with author Mary O’Connell. If only for an hour, it was a joy to be in a room full of other reading and writing enthusiasts who… Continue reading Authors and Questions: A Conversation between Laura Moriarty and Mary O’Connell
wrapped up in books 