New Year’s Resolutions are hard. We all know that. We also all know how lovely it would be if we could read more. But, alas, we don’t have the time. We have to watch the new Netflix show. We have to binge conspiracy theory videos on YouTube for four hours. If you are looking to get back into literature, but cannot be bothered with a generalized resolution that will definitely be broken, here are five more specific and more attainable resolutions for book lovers. 1. Find a New Genre Image via Medium Rather than vowing to …
What is BookTube? It seems as though you can find absolutely anything on YouTube these days. There are plenty of communities and creators that are guaranteed to make you fall down a rabbit hole or two at 3 a.m.. The book world is no different. Bookstragram has recently exploded as literary fanatics take to Instagram to post and discuss their new favorite readers. BookTube is very similar. Bookworms get behind a camera and talk to their subscribers about their favorite reads of the moment. Image via The Books Across What kinds of videos exist on BookTube? I’m glad …
The gender nonconforming pronoun as been named the 2019 word of the year after searches for the term increased by 313% within the past year. Image via Reddit The definition joins three other definitions of the word and goes as follows: “used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.” It was officially added to the dictionary this September. Image via ABC7 Chicago This choice should come as no surprise as the rise of nonbinary figures in the mainstream continues to increase. Just this year alone, we have seen Sam Smith and Jonathan Van Ness come …
Following a trend of Christmas themed ventures arriving on Broadway for the end of the year festivities, a new version of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater on November 20 and will run through January 5, 2020. The constant reproductions of this timeless tale might appear stale at this point, but with such a treasured story, it can’t hurt to take another shot at the bah humbug star we all love to hate. Traditions like this one hold the holiday season dear and promise stability and ritual in such a …
So I know I have been complaining about the lack of ensemble scenes we have gotten so far in this season of Riverdale. This has been rectified slightly…even if it is not in the way that I would have wanted. We have a wonderful Thanksgiving night dinner at Pop’s featuring all of the parents (except Molly Ringwald because she is busy saving Archie’s life- more on that later). We get a lot of Falice (FP and Alice) content in this episode, which I am not mad at except that it could possibly hinder Jughead and Betty’s relationships, which is not …
