Between the Pages

Hello! Here is an article that recently ran in my high school paper about banned books by me! Enjoy! In 1982, Banned Books Week was launched in response to a surge in challenged books in school districts, libraries, and bookstores. Another wave of book banning is taking place now - 40 years later.  Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: these are just a few of the numerous titles that are banned and challenged classics, according to the American Library Association (ALA). Although HH's curriculum continues to include these books, in a lot of high schools around the country, books like these and other classics are being contested, as they have been many times in America’s history.  In 1982, District V. Pico, a Supreme Court case that ruled school officials cannot ban books in libraries for their content, sparked what we know today as the Banned Books Movement. That same year, the American Booksellers Asso...

I am finally getting around to giving you the quick facts on my reading last year! These stats are straight from my yearly spreadsheet. Enjoy! 33 BOOKS Dearly In Cold Blood Where the Crawdads Sing A Study in Charlotte The End of August A Case for Jamie Night Siddartha The Stranger Hamlet 12 Angry Men Good Girl, Bad Blood Mrs. Dalloway Kisses and Croissants American Royals They Wish They Were Us Majesty (Amerian Royals II) Kind of a Big Deal The Midnight Library The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Beach Read People We Meet on Vacation Box in the Woods Finlay Donovan is Killing It A Question of Holmes Poirot Investigates Just Mercy The Inheritance Games It Ends With Us The Royal We The Royals Next Door Frankenstein The Hawthorne Legacy TOP 3 AUTHORS Brittany Cavallaro Agatha Christie Emily Henry MY GENRES

 Hello everyone! Here is a little update on my reading and book goals this week. 

 Hello everyone! Here's the review for a sequel I have been awaiting for a long time: The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. SPOILER - this series is a confirmed TRILOGY. The third book is called The Final Gambit.  SUMMARY First a little recap of the first book in this Hawthorne series presented by September Hallie's review of the first one -  "One day Avery is barely making ends meet, the next she is on a plane to the Hawthorne House, the mansion and estate of Tobias Hawthorne the Texas billionaire. One day Avery doesn't have a house, the next she is the beneficiary of the late Tobias Hawthorne's fortune. The list of questions/'catches' is long. (1) Avery doesn't know and has never known a Tobias Hawthorne in her life. (2) Hawthorne's extended family is vast and each member was close to the late billionaire. Why didn't he leave his fortune to them?" Avery is back at it again with another mystery. Or, rather, the same mystery, differ...

   There were 2,635 pages under the tree just for me this Christmas. Pages full of analysis, reviews, history, pictures, fiction, and true crime. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction; I also, as any normal person did, gave books this Christmas. Not quite 2,635 pages worth, but enough to hold my status as the reader of the family. Here lie the highlights of what this booklover was gifted this Christmas.  #1: The New York Times Book Review    125 years of literary history all bound into one beautiful book that combines my two passions, literature and journalism, is a collection of 368 pages I found myself gawking at on multiple occasions. All alone, on its pedestal in a warmly lit bookstore, stood my one true love: the one and only New York Times Book Review . Over the past couple of months and over the course of 6+ visits, at least three Parnassus employees said some version of, "That book is amazing. Inspired, really," as I stood drooli...