Hi all! I wanted to write a short life update as I begin to transition to my post-grad life (and consequently transition zoreads!). As of this week, I am officially a medical student! Pursuing medicine has long been a dream of mine, and is closely related to how I engage with literature. While I will …
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Somehow, it’s July and the year is halfway over. In the recent months, I haven’t posted as many updates about my reading on this blog as I would’ve liked, so I thought I’d do a quick reading check in, using a set of questions from the tag co-created by Earl Grey Books. I left a …
The publishing industry is a predominantly white industry, with 76% of people working in publishing identifying as white in 2019. As an industry responsible for sharing stories, shaping narratives, and promoting empathy and knowledge, the lack of diversity in employees is deeply troubling. It is consequently important for the non-Black book community to be intentional …
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Today, I thought it would be fun to combine my passion for books with my interest in the astrological and spiritual. I was inspired by Books and Lala’s recent video to provide book recommendations based on traits associated with various zodiac signs. That being said, I have somewhat limited knowledge of the zodiac signs (I …
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Hi all! This week I was inspired by this tweet to participate in the books-as-outfit trend! Putting together these book cover inspired outfits was a fun challenge to fill some quarantine down time. I would encourage you all to try this out yourselves, I’d love to see the results! I *love* the colors on the …
alternatively: Reading in the time of Corona In the frightening times of a global pandemic, some people have found themselves self-isolated and quarantined with little to do. After staring at a screen all day for online classes or working-from-home, more digital media might be headache inducing rather than relaxing. After spending all day inside your …
“…I have seen enough death and violence to know that there’s only one way we can talk about wars: honestly. Only through honesty can we learn about the truth.” (The Mountains Sing, pg 79) In a time of social-distancing and anxiety, many of us are turning to fiction for transportive experiences and authentic human stories. …
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(and why I don’t use Goodreads) For the organized or data-oriented reader, it can be an overwhelming challenge to develop a single, optimal system for tracking reading. While many people simply rely on memory to remember what they have read, others create systems to remember what we read, how we read, and how we felt …
As a writer and a reader, I’m interested in the questions of what makes successful contemporary fiction and why certain novels last over time rather than others. I recently took a course about these topics— inspired by the conversations held there and the end of the decade, I have culminated a list of the “best” …
As 2019 comes to a close and various literary publications share their “Top of 2019” lists, I thought I would culminate my own list of my top reads of the year. This year, I read a total of over 60 books (I am still hoping to finish up a couple before the end of the …
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