Jeffery Eugenides’s ‘The Virgin Suicides’ is meant to be left on the shelf. PHOTO CREDIT: Amazon.com Jeffery Eugenides is thought of as one of the most influential contemporary writers of our generation. Some of his most famous novels include “Middlesex,” “The Marriage Plot” and “Fresh Complaint.” Eugenides’s most famous work, “The Virgin Suicides,” was published…
Randy Pausch inspires with “The Last Lecture. PHOTO CREDIT: Contributed by The Chicago Tribune In a quaint, local bookstore in Pittsburgh, a small, blue book caught my eye. “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. I hadn’t read a book in quite some time, so I decided to buy it….
Stan Column: Books can provide an escape in uncertain times. PHOTO CREDIT: time.com Okay, the confession’s out — I was a book nerd. No, not just the typical kid who liked to read. I took my craft seriously. I was the kid who waited outside of Barnes & Noble in the dead of December for…
September offers a promising introductory chapter to the school year. PHOTO CREDIT: goodreads.com Back to school — you see it, you hear about it, you’ve probably experienced it at least 12 times if you’re an undergraduate student here at the University of Rhode Island. Maybe you love it, maybe you dread it, maybe you feel…
Books provide an escape for some in the times of COVID-19. PHOTO CREDIT: time.com Okay, the confession’s out — I was a book nerd. No, not just the typical kid who liked to read. I took my craft seriously. I was the kid who waited outside of Barnes & Noble in the dead of December…
Photo from amazon.com. “BookTok” has been rising in popularity on TikTok this summer, providing many books a boost in readership, even years after their initial release. As a kid, I was an avid reader, but as I got older, the only time I read books were for high school English class (and let’s be honest,…
Pride month is a time to celebrate LGBTQIA+ people; real and fictional. While there has been an increasing amount of representation both on-screen and off-screen in recent years, many LGBTQIA+ characters and storylines have fallen into tropes ranging from “please get this off of my screen, this is setting gay rights back another 50 years”…
Everyone knows John Greene’s “The Fault in Our Stars,” but there’s another book of his that you should really be looking at. Photo from amazon.com. When I was 13, I read John Green’s most famous novel, “The Fault in Our Stars,” and, like most people who read it in middle school, loved it. I finished…
If you’re looking for something new to read during quarantine, take a look at the ‘Mortal Instruments’ series. Photo from amazon.com. It’s a big trend to ask people what they’ve learned how to do in their free time during the nearly year-long pandemic we’ve all been stuck in, and I, for one, have perfected the…
Want to read but can’t find the inspiration to pick up a book? Here are 6 suggestions to respark your inner bibliophile. Photo from goodreads.com. It’s really easy to fall out of love with reading when all you read are textbooks and class-related articles and essays. But, the best way to get back into it…