A little nostalgia hurt no one. Or at least that’s what I’ve been telling myself. This week, as I’ve been loading up on audiobooks for my car and trying to get the most out of my library card, I have been taking a trip down memory lane with all the books that made up my adolescence. Whether they helped me through a tough time, or simply made me laugh, it’s been nice to revisit them as an adult. Old New Favourites: A Favourites Friday 1. Georgia Nicolson books {Louise Rennison

Today is International Women’s Day, and I am so proud to be standing side-by-side with so many amazing women in this world. Everyone deserves a voice, and it is a day like today that reminds us what a voice women have. Some of these voices are shown in literature in amazing feminist books that everyone should read. They make us laugh, they inspire us to action, or they tell a story of exactly what life has been like for women in the past. I hope you will take time during Wome

A few weeks ago (yeah, I’m really behind on my organization) I was tagged by Sabrina from Books and Bark in the Social Media Tag. This tag is cool and different and I thought, “Hey, let’s reconnect with those books you’re always attempting to write.” Last summer I gave myself the challenge to write an entire book. And, oddly enough, I actually accomplished that goal. It took until the very last day of summer (to be finished right before 12am) but it’s a real thing now. And de

On Sunday, another article from me was published on Huffington Post. I’m not going to lie, this one is definitely something funny and goofy and if it doesn’t make you giggle a bit, you are reading it wrong. In this post I defend secondary characters in books and how fantastic they are, along with my favorite, Seamus Finnigan. I have, and always will be, an enthusiast, and this article is an enthusiast’s way to defend characters. Below I have posted the teaser and I hope you l

If you’ve been following my vague tweets all week, you’ll know that what I want to discuss today isn’t all laughs and squeaks. It’s something that has affected my life and all my classmates lives and many more in my community. It’s something that I’ve wanted to discuss for a while now, but haven’t had the motive to until now. Today isn’t all about laughs. I want to do something I rarely do: Be serious. Cancer. The very word makes you shiver. You can feel the negative connotat

On Twitter, Facebook, and even comments on here, I am always asked what books I like to read? What’s my favorite romance novel? Harry Potter or Hunger Games? So, to get it all over in one fell swoop, here are my book recommendation based on questions you’ve asked me. Favorite Book Series The Harry Potter series Best Novel About High School The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Favorite Romance (Hazel and Augustus Forever) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Best

When I was 14, I wrote a novel. And not an all-great American novel, or a heroic story of people surviving an apocalypse novel. It was a girly, frilly novel. The other day I was looking through some of the documents on the laptop, seeing which ones I could delete and which ones I should keep. As I perused all my old English assignments and random GIFs, I noticed the novel I’d written at 14. My first reaction was to delete it, remove it completely from any memory and hard driv

As many of the nerds of the world will tell you, books are great things. They are magical collections of pages that transport the reader sitting in their bedroom to fabulous places where anything can happen. Reading a book is like getting on an airplane. You start in a place you know, but as you get into the air, you have no way of knowing what’s going to happen, if you’ll even end up at your expected landing spot. Books are mysterious like that. I like it. My absolute favori

Last year, NewSouth Books released a copy of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain with the n-word removed. This particular account of censorship caused uproar and, well, I’m uproaring with the best of them. I am currently reading “Huck Finn” in my AP Language & Composition class. The pre-Civil War satirical novel about a young boy who runs away from his abusive drunk of a father and ends up travelling with a fugitive slave is one of the best books about racism I

Writing a Book 101: Tips and Tricks Don’t Make a Title First Make a Title First Everyone will tell you that you should not make a title when you first start writing a book because you should just let your mind flow and work it’s magic. They’re wrong. If you want to write a book, come up with a title and use that title for inspiration when you’re writing. I mean, you can change it whenever, so what’s the harm? Write Whatever You Want Know Your Facts If you are writing about a

A book I recommend reading to anyone is A Tale of Two Summers by Brian Sloane. I’ve read this book two times and each time I read it I end up loving it more and more. It’s incredibly good and a real favorite of mine. It follows the story of Hal and Chuck on their first summer apart. Hal, who is gay, ends up falling in love with a druggie French boy. Chuck, who is straight, falls for the beautiful Saudi girl at his theatre camp. The story’s told in blog form and is absolutely

Today’s Stumble Saturday is brought by Rate My Funny Pictures during my trip on Stumbleupon today. I love pictures like these, so if you know of ones like these (with the basic picture but amazing caption) please feel free to put them on my Facebook page. I would love it! WHY REALITY SHOWS ARE SO STUPID How many of you think that everything you see on reality television shows are real? Did you raise your hand? Well, guess what. It’s not. A lot of what you see is scripted or e

Twilight. You might know the world’s fascination with this vampire series. If not, I will give you a quick description of it. Because of this book, and the rest of the series and the films, teenagers are now wearing vampire fangs and thinking that vampires sparkle. Yes, it is that bad. I remember the first time I read Twilight. My friend had just finished reading it and was obsessed with the series (which was before everyone else was) and was trying to force me to read them.

As I posted a few hours ago, I went to go see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 today. I laughed, I cried, I grabbed for my friend’s hand, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have waited 5 agonizing days to see this film, but the wait was definitely worth the while. I even curled my hair. It was so incredible to see the ending of an amazing era of films and novels. First off, I’d been wondering all year how they were going to really start off the beginning of Part 2. The