Tag: Writing

My Three-Year Blogiversary and Re-evaluating my Relationship with the Internet

Recently, I have been thinking a lot about my relationship with the Internet, and the history of my blog and the kind of content I write here.

February 2023 Wrap-Up: The Shortest Month of the Year… And It Really Felt Like It To Be Honest

It seems weird that it is already the last day of February. This month is, of course, the shortest month of the year, but it felt somehow even shorter than expected.

January 2023 Wrap-Up: A Paradoxically Eventful Month of Hibernation

Well, I’m finally starting to do wrap-ups on here again. I kind of fell off doing this last year, but I decided I ought to continue again because it’s nice to reflect back on the months, and I kind of like having this record.

Ranking All Of Ruta Sepetys’s Historical Fiction Books

Ruta Sepetys is an American Young Adult historical fiction author who writes about often-overlooked historical events, usually focusing on 20th-century European history. Her books are written with teens in mind, but they are often considered “crossover” novels because of their simultaneous appeal to adult readers. Her father was a Lithuanian refugee, and this has inspired some of her fiction.

How The Book Community’s Insidious Identity Politics is Stunting Literature

Literature has long been used as a way to communicate about the human experience, to broadcast ideas across continents, to connect with people of vastly different backgrounds, to expand empathy, to broaden people’s perceptions of the world.