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The Reviews
Krystle DiCristofalo
Nov 17, 20213 min read
Review of A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell
Why didn’t any of the girls get their periods in The Hunger Games? If this question ever crossed your mind, or you aren’t a fan of how...
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Phoebe Lu
Oct 28, 20216 min read
Review of The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
The moment I began to define myself as a feminist was after attending the 2017 women’s march. I had been interested in feminist ideas...
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Liana Eisler
Oct 28, 20213 min read
Review of Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson
Hilarious, reflective, and authentic, New York Times bestselling author Phoebe Robinson’s Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside...
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Sarah Closser
Oct 28, 20212 min read
We Know You Remember: Tove Alsterdal’s Sensational American Debut
Set in a rural Swedish town, Tove Alsterdal’s We Know You Remember, like any good mystery, wastes no time introducing its first victims....
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Frankie DeGiorgio
Oct 28, 20214 min read
Review of Before we Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson
Trigger Warnings: parental figure/guardian abuse, confinement, period-typical racism. Review contains minor spoilers. Shaun David...
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Ava Benavente
Oct 28, 20212 min read
Review of Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach
Last Monday, I sat down to read, expecting to feel that all too familiar feeling of reading a cheesy young adult love story and falling...
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Eris Sker
Oct 28, 20213 min read
Review of Earthly Delights by Troy Jollimore
I made two mistakes before beginning my reading of Troy Jollimore’s collection of poems Earthly Delights. The first was my aim to read it...
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Henry Zhu
Oct 28, 20214 min read
Review of Tenderness by Derrick Austin
A mother gleams in happiness as her child babbles "ma-ma" for the first time. A father prides in his child when he finally learns how to...
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Lilienne Shore Kilgore-Brown
Oct 28, 20214 min read
An Actual Review about The Actual Star
If you pick up The Actual Star, open it to the middle, and read it for 10 minutes, you might not realize that the storyline and character...
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Tatiana Gnuva
Oct 28, 20215 min read
Review of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
T.J. Klune, the author of The House on the Cerulean Sea, once again outdoes himself with his latest published work, titled The Whispering...
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Lia Jung
Oct 28, 20213 min read
Holding On and Letting Go: Absence, Space and Speech in Ozeki's The Book of Form and Emptiness
EMPTINESS takes form in the absence of a father, taken away by a tragic accident, leaving an irreversible gap in the life of Benny Oh,...
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James Yiu
Oct 28, 20212 min read
How Do You Deal with the Loss of a Child? Or with Seeing Justice Served 20 Years Too Late?
The Necklace by Matt Witten follows the journey of Susan Lentigo, the mother of a young girl named Amy who was killed and raped. Twenty...
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Regan Mies
Oct 27, 20215 min read
Indeterminate Destinations: Amor Towles’ The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles’ captivating literary arc has taken him from the era of 1930s flappers and speakeasies to the political turmoil of early...
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Ruby Zeidman
Oct 27, 20212 min read
Ali Hazelwood Sets Classic Romance Tropes Against Grad School Backdrop in ‘The Love Hypothesis’
Ali Hazelwood’s debut book, The Love Hypothesis, has pretty much taken the romance world by storm. Although it might not have racked up a...
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Hattie Rogovin
Oct 27, 20215 min read
Beautiful World, Where Are...the Complex Female Characters?
Beautiful Word, Where Are You is the third novel from 30 year old Irish author, Sally Rooney, that has seemingly placed an entire...
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Anna Eggers
Oct 27, 20213 min read
“The Wish” Provides a Snapshot View of a Love That Survives the Test of Time
Life moves in a fluid motion. We constantly march forward, leaving memories, people, and who we once were to the past, sometimes never to...
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Sadia Haque
Oct 27, 20214 min read
The Modern Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice I Wish I Could Have Written
I was the girl reading Bronte in the fifth grade, crying over Dickens in middle school, and ranting passionately about Homer in high...
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