Earlier this year I saw a thought-provoking video from a BookTuber named Saajid considering the question, “Is the book community American-centric?” I’ve been pondering things Saajid mentioned in the video […] Read More
Category: Essays
This past Friday, the highly anticipated Shadow and Bone series premiered on Netflix and fans of the Grishaverse all over the world logged in to watch their favs come to […] Read More
The struggle is real! I am writing this at 5pm on Wednesday when I usually prefer to have my posting up before the start of the day. What happened this […] Read More
Yesterday an old tweet came across my timeline on Facebook and said this “Academia’s obsession with preserving the white man’s ‘classic’ literature within secondary schools’s curriculum is the reason why […] Read More
Last year was my first NCTE annual conference and I was completely overwhelmed. Trying to balance sessions with visiting the exhibit hall and all the author signings, whew! This year, […] Read More
Last week a parent posted on Twitter an excerpt of a note sent home by her child about free reading choices. Sadly to say, the note had a number of […] Read More