Book Listicle

In the midst of yet another year marked by collective anxiety and disillusionment, I clung to stories for solace, strength, and happiness. I have yet to articulate what it feels like to so thoroughly lose myself in a book — to be so consumed by a story that you don’t feel hungry until it’s 9:00pm, […]

Last year, at the height of the pandemic, I both lost and almost lost a few family members. There are many coping mechanisms in the face of such mortality: denying, crying, praying, comedy, throwing yourself into work, not being able to work, and so on. Mine was binge-reading books about death, and not only has

Want to know what books anthropology majors read for their degree? What we study (spoiler alert: way more than just witchcraft) and how we study them? Here is my book list!  Similar to how literature students read novels, poems, and perhaps nonfiction, anthropology students read texts called “ethnographies.” These books combine nonfiction narrative storytelling with theoretical

Are you new to the feminist movement and don’t know where to start? Are you already a feminist and want to read under-rated books on feminism? Then this article is all for you! Here, I discuss 4 non-fiction books that are excellent at educating people about feminism. People have countless misconceptions and prejudices against feminism

I put off reading self-help books for a long time because I couldn’t comprehend how something as simple as reading a book could change my mind, habits, and overall lifestyle. But girl, was I wrong. As I started reading, I quickly realized that indeed, self-help books won’t automatically make your life better. Instead, they give

I’m a ho for Jane Austen, which is why I finally finished reading all 7 of her completed novels last January. I tried my best to rank them–as one naturally does–but really didn’t know how to. I was stumped, because each book deals with a different theme, heroine, hero, and ensemble of characters that made