The book “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls was published in 2005. Photo from tigertimes.com. During my sophomore year of high school, I took a creative writing class. Our teacher gave us an excerpt of the first chapter of a book to read as an example of how to hook a reader in. “I was…
Short story “Turbulence” was written by David Szalay and published in 2018. Photo from Amazon.com. Short stories get a lot of flack, and I really don’t know why. Sure, no one is actively complaining about short stories in my inner circle, but it is rare to hear about someone invested in a compilation of tiny…
“Percy Jackson & the Olympians,” originally written by Rick Riordan, was made into a movie by directors Thor Freudenthal and Chris Columbus in 2013. Photo from TBIvision.com. Greek mythology is fascinating but often difficult to read in its original form. Within the context of Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” series, we had access to some of…
Author Jane Austen still inspires and entertains readers today. Photo from Columbia College. If you’re an avid rom-com watcher like me, then Jane Austen’s books should be the next thing you pick up in your local bookstore. At first glance, books like “Pride and Prejudice” or “Emma” seem dense, hard to understand and somewhat tedious,…