Black Coffee Motel

In my junior year of high school, I sat behind a girl. She and I were good friends, we got along well enough, though nothing ever too deep. Such a shame, really. I don’t think it was something either of us really intended. Some friendships are meant to pass, to not go further than what…

I was first introduced to S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders in the eighth grade by a teacher whom we’ll call Mrs. Swift. She was blonde, pretty, tall, smart, and I distinctly remember a classmate of mine saying she reminded her of Taylor Swift, who was real big at the time on our middle school campus. I…

My high school library was weird. Small, crowded, and a little stuffy, it wasn’t the best library in the world and as a result, I never found myself there much in my teenage years. No wonder so many kids don’t like to read, I’d thought. If the library sucks, they’ll never go in there! In…

Normal People remains as a top-notch book to TV series adaptation. The casting, dialogue, setting, and most importantly, its close attention to plot points, sets a spectacular example that other directors should follow. At its core, Normal People is a unique but realistic love story. Conflicts and challenges are realistic. We cannot delude ourselves into…

Every once in a while I think about the book Holes, one of the few books I actually remembered reading in elementary school. My favorite books in the fifth grade were more of the fun adventure genre than classic children’s lit, which was perhaps why many of the assigned books I’d read at the time…