October is the best month. It’s the perfect time to make your way through a stack of books, whether they’re cozy or witchy in nature, preferably while eating…
YA Books that Complement School Readings
The school year has already begun for most of you high school students out there, unless you’re one of the lucky ones, which means that you’re going to spend the next nine months reading a bunch of classics that you…
Ashes in the Snow Movie Review: Even Bel Powley doesn’t shine bright enough to save this melodrama
Inspired by the harrowing true events dramatized in Ruta Sepetys’s best-selling 2011 novel set in the midst of Stalin’s genocide of the Baltic people, Ashes in the Snow (a title that’s a bit too on-the-nose for its own good, but…
Read of the Week: Out of The Easy by Ruta Sepetys
It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life…