Category: Unpopular Opinions
Today, March 8th, 2017, is International Women’s Day. It makes sense that the day would fall in March, which also happens to be Women’s History Month. There are quite …
It probably goes without saying that most classic novels are really good— I mean, they’re classics after all, and there’s usually a really good reason they’ve stood the test …
In an ideal world, a gender-swapped version of Twilight would have a narrator that does not make the reader want to slam their foreheads against their desk (repeatedly). Cushion your …
There are plenty of holidays the calendar year has to celebrate the past, but I’m hard pressed to find one better than President’s Day, especially at the moment. The …
If you’ve been following book news, you’ve probably heard that George Orwell’s 1984 hit the best seller list on Amazon. In light of the new Trump administration, the possibility of …
Teenagers wishing to fit in, a hidden pink secret hidden inside a dark closet, and some seriously questionable parenting skills. This is Ava’s world in the young adult fiction …
Amazon is one of the most valuable online retailers in the United States, functioning as an accessible, free-to-use online market that helps customers and sellers to exchange goods. Surpassing …
According to Sister Mary Carmel, my 4th grade teacher, retracting gossip is as simple as gathering feathers that have blown away on the wind. Same goes for fake news. …
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that a woman’s privacy rights are “broad enough to encompass the right to terminate her pregnancy.” Now, despite the decades …
After quite the hiatus, the story of Beaufort Swan and Edythe Cullen in Stephenie Meyer’s Life and Death continues in its epic and completely fresh plot. You might wonder, …
One would be hard-pressed to find a topic more talked about and controversial than the Muslim ban executive order Trump signed on January 30, 2017. The ban made it …
As far as billionaire romances are concerned, there are many books a person can read. However, whenever anyone thinks of sultry and sexy books, E.L James Fifty Shades of …
In light of recent political discourse in America, the growing divide between Republican and Democrat values has slowly been growing. This brooding distemper has even pulled books into the …
January 20th saw the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States of America. Great crowds of people showed up to watch the event …
Kathy Gates
January 24, 2017
Adult, Book Lists, Classics, Emily Bronte, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Reviews, Unpopular Opinions, Walt Whitman
I love reading book reviews but I always take them with a grain of salt. Thing is, no matter how much of an expert the reviewer is, a review …
Friday, January 20th marks the end of one Presidency and the beginning of another. As President Trump is being sworn in, we can look back on the styles of …
You thought it was over, didn’t you? Until today, I had no idea that Stephenie Meyer published Life and Death, the gender-swapped version of the first Twilight novel. Yet, I …
I first read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby during my junior year in high school. To be quite honest, I showed no particular interest at the prospect of working …
There is no question that the United States is in great political turmoil. Protests and rallies are being held everywhere, and they are only escalating as Donald Trump’s inauguration …
Lacey Kupfer Wulf
January 10, 2017
Book Lists, Book Lovers, Chick Lit, Classics, Human Interest, Jane Austen, Literary Fiction, Literary Quotes, Romance, Unpopular Opinions
I am a Jane Austen character. Well, sorta. Aside from the two-hundred-year gap and the fact that they are fictional, I feel right at home with those ladies. I’m …