Blog Art Prevails in Quarantine, Even in the Smallest Acts LRR, April 16, 2020February 8, 2025 By Brenna Sarantides The day that UConn closed campus and moved to online classes, I told myself I would have a lot to show for all my free time. I’d read a few books a week. I’d finally start writing the novel I’ve been story-boarding. I’d finish a large canvas… Continue Reading
Blog 6 Books to Get You Through Your Quarter Life Crisis LRR, March 26, 2020February 8, 2025 By Brenna Sarantides We all can agree that times are weird right now. In the midst of quarantining, existential dread is abundant. For those in their 20s, panic was already on the horizon. These conditions have merely exasperated the effects. On the brink of adulthood, many people find themselves questioning… Continue Reading
Blog What Quarantine Book You Should be Reading Based on Your Star Sign LRR, March 25, 2020February 8, 2025 By Jennie Fetzer It’s Monday, March 23, 2020, and the CDC has officially closed all non-essential businesses in the state of Connecticut. It has also been advised that we practice social distancing to stop the spread of COVID-19, better known as “Corona”. For many, this means hunkering down in our… Continue Reading
Blog Anna Coronina… or How Classic Books Would Change if the Main Character had Coronavirus LRR, March 16, 2020February 8, 2025 By Alyssa Grimaldi Part of the magic in reading emerges from the distinct ability of imagining yourself in the place of any protagonist. You can be Elizabeth Bennet at the ball with Mr. Darcy, Harry Potter fighting Voldemort, or Hamlet avenging his father’s untimely death. But what if characters from… Continue Reading
Blog Books: The 19th Century Vibrator LRR, March 5, 2020February 8, 2025 By Anna Zarra Aldrich The male ego has been a fragile thing for centuries; and in the 19th century, this ego was especially threatened by a particularly heinous device that could eliminate a woman’s need for a man entirely: Books. Sinister, seditious, patriarchy-disestablishing books. When women became more active members… Continue Reading
Blog Writing With Sound: Making playlists for your stories LRR, February 18, 2020February 8, 2025 Sometimes to see, you need to listen first. For almost all of the projects I would create before 2016, I ran into a wall over and over again: For some reason, I couldn’t visualize anything about my stories the way I needed to. It wasn’t because I didn’t have a… Continue Reading
The Smell of Books > The Smell of the Screen LRR, February 17, 2020February 8, 2025 When I was in elementary school back in 2009, I remember being envious of the kids whose parents let them borrow their Nooks (or Kindles?). It made those kids look cool and sophisticated. Then again, when you’re young anything new looks cool. I was there when my teachers started using… Continue Reading
Blog 8 Unconventional Uses for Books LRR, February 6, 2020February 8, 2025 Ah books. We all have them. We love them. But sometimes we have books that could be put to better use than sitting around gathering dust on a shelf. Maybe it’s a 1973 field guide of Birds of New England or How to use Myspace for Dummies or your old… Continue Reading
Cracking a Cold One with the Books By: Parker Gregory Shpak LRR, May 26, 2017February 8, 2025 Two of my most frequented hobbies are reading books and drinking beer. My favorite hobby, however, is reading books while drinking beer. Herein lies a primer for those of you who have perhaps dabbled in these pastimes, but have not yet mastered them in combination. Beer has as rich a… Continue Reading
Books and Videogames: A Marriage of Two Mediums By: Autumn Magro LRR, April 7, 2017February 8, 2025 I love videogames more than books – sometimes. It’s not easy to admit that books are not my one bountiful passion in life (because how romantic is that?), and it’s taken me even longer to rationalize the two together. Unlike books, there is a negative connotation with video games. There… Continue Reading