The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon is an adult fantasy series. In it, Claire, the main character accidentally touches some ancient stone in the Scottish Highlands and gets transported back in time to when the Jacobites were uprising against England (around 1745). This creates many problems for Claire because she was on her honeymoon and … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2019
Children’s Book Series with a Nostalgic Flavor—Ariel Crego
I’ve been cleaning out my closet recently, and I’ve come across a huge box of books in the back—all books from my childhood that I thoroughly enjoyed. They’re good comfort books, and they helped me make the jump to decide to write my own manuscript and enjoy learning to write. Magic Tree House series … Continue reading
My Favorite Book—Hannah Schriever
One of the few things I was known for in high school was being a book nerd. Which I guess is the only thing anybody ever got right about my personality. Overall, during summer months I can read up to ten books a month. Their stories usually mesh together at some point, over the years. … Continue reading
The Light Pole—Emma Bozenda
I’m flickering. My light is growing dimmer each day. I don’t like it. It’s supposed to be either off or on. Off during daytime and on at nighttime. It’s always been that way, always. Hazy. I feel hazy. Trying to remember makes me feel worse, but I don’t want to forget. Some of the sidewalk … Continue reading
Spun Sugar—Claire Tollefsrud
Adrian and Adrienne grew up in the same town, same school. They saw each other in passing and didn’t spare a second thought, not as children, not as adolescents, not until one day at the spring fair when they were almost grown. He was 18 and she was seven months younger. That day some primal … Continue reading
Dinner at Ray’s—Bridget Atkinson Moore
Characters: RAY: Stay at home father VERONICA: Working mother with postpartum depression PATRICIA: Overworked, caring mother JACKSON: Bachelor party man (An immaculate dining room with a long table and six matching chairs perfectly placed around it. The room is well decorated and all of the paintings, potted plants and knick-knacks on the shelves are … Continue reading
Review of Japan’s Cultural Code Words—Melissa (Milo) Schmitt
Slang nowadays is changing so drastically, a college student such as myself can’t even keep up. Obviously, slang isn’t just an American thing. In fact, most slang terms are international, they’re just different words with the same, or similar, meanings. I personally traveled to Japan over the summer of 2018 and had to quickly learn … Continue reading
Fangirl Review—Taylor Nosekabel
In the book Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, a girl, Cath, begins her freshman year of college at the University of Nebraska. It is a coming of age story, and a book that I think every person coming into college should read. It deals with learning how to live on your own without your parents, family … Continue reading
Morgan—Susan Bryant
Morgan arrived in my bathtub early in January. I worried about him, at first. Was he starving? Dehydrated? Bored to tears, just clinging to the side of the tub like that, always in the same spot, day after day? Then I said to myself, “You’re just a silly old woman. There’s nothing you can do … Continue reading
The “Craziness Due to Writer’s Block” Aesthetic—Elizabeth Watts
“I’m gonna slam this laptop against the wall. I swear I fucking will.” Kazuya Takahashi writes because…well, there really isn’t a “because”. He just does it because somehow he actually likes it, and despite his threat of slamming his expensive laptop against a perfectly innocent wall, he knows that he’s going to continue to write. … Continue reading
Coe Review 