Categoría: Books
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Mexican Gothic made me remember why I love Gothic literature
Mexican Gothic is a novel by author Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and it reminded me why I love the Gothic genre so much.
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Range: Try, try, try, and then focus
This is the story of how a book helped me stop worrying about not specializing earlier.
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Michelle Obama’s «Becoming» and The Big Question
Michelle Obama has lived a very interesting life. This book is a glimpse into her life and her mind, and I was surprised to find myself in those pages, asking myself the same big question that has always haunted her: Am I good enough?
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The Portrayal of Teenage Mental Health: Turtles All the Way Down
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.” John Green Aza Holmes is 16 years old, she lives in Indianapolis with her mom, and she has OCD. There is a callus on her finger that she presses every time she gets anxious about […]
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Of Women and Literature: A Room of One’s Own
“But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that got to do with a room of one’s own? I will try to explain.” Thus begins one of the most famous essays on women and literature, by the one and only Virginia Woolf. It always takes me a […]
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Into the Twilight Zone, Chapter 1: On Twilight and YA Literature
The Twilight Saga is a four-book series that debuted in 2005. It was written by American author Stephenie Meyer and it is a young adult novel that chronicles the romance between a teenage girl and a mysterious and handsome vampire. On Twilight In case you have not read any of the four books, watched any […]
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Review: Miss Burma
“I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t both intrigued and frightened by the myth of my mother and her native country, by their secrets and contradictions.” Charmaine Craig Miss Burma is a novel written by American author Charmaine Craig. It is a fictionalized version of her own family story, following the lives of her […]
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Review: To The Lighthouse
“It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain.” To the Lighthouse is a 1927 book written by modernist author, Virginia Woolf. Even though it is […]
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