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Dream Me The World: A Review Of “The Raven Cycle” By Maggie Stiefvater

LRR, February 24, 2022February 23, 2022

If you’re looking for a dreamy, atmospheric contemporary fantasy series, Rylee Thomas cannot recommend Maggie Stiefvater’s “The Raven Cycle” highly enough

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Teenage Nostalgia Plus Free Time Equals Writing Prompts

LRR, April 24, 2020April 23, 2020

TLDR you can make a writing prompt out of anything By Natalie Baliker After several weeks at home, stuck staring at the walls as if they’re going to change any time soon, I’m desperate for distraction. But at the same time, I’m incapable of sitting down and channelling that energy…

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The Person Behind the Face: Review of Elif Batuman’s ‘The Idiot’

LRR, April 11, 2020

By Samantha Bertolino The title Batuman chose is emblematic of Dostoevsky’s 19-century novel, in which Knyaz Myshkin’s goodness and simplicity fool others into believing that he lacks intuition and intelligence. In much of the same manner, Batuman’s central character, Selin, appears at times to be kind and uncomplicated, while in…

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‘Queen of Nothing’ and female fantasy archetypes

LRR, March 31, 2020

By Alex Houdeshell As I got my hands on each new installment of Holly Black’s Folk of the Air trilogy, I went through the exact same speed-reading, can’t-put-it-down-until-I’m-finished, suspense-filled experience. Starting with The Cruel Prince and ending with Queen of Nothing (released last November) Holly Black kept my eyes glued…

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Three Young Adult Books That Everyone Should Read, and Why You Should Read Them

LRR, March 2, 2020March 10, 2020

By Jordan Shaw For the past 10 years of my life, my go-to sections in bookstores and libraries have been the Young Adult shelves. I liked that it was a place where many of the books I picked up featured magical creatures or people with miraculous powers, and I found…

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