Book Review, Fandom books, classical mythology, fantasy, fiction, mythology, Percy Jackson, Percy Jackson Project, Rick Riordan
THERE ARE SPOILERS HERE. You have been warned. Welcome to the Percy Jackson Project! Today I am discussing book two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians — The Sea of Monsters. I really liked The Sea of Monsters. It was a book that I finished quickly — speeding through books is a bit my style […]
Exclusive Content, Flash Fiction Complete, CW, fiction, Flash Fiction, prose
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Book Review books, family, fiction, gothic, Mexico, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Speculative Fiction
Call me dramatic but I swear this is true – it was a dark and stormy night and when I sat down to read Mexican Gothic, wine glass in hand and candles burning merrily on my altar. Captivating in the truest sense of the word, I could not help but be charmed by Noemí, our […]
Book Review black literature, BLACK LIVES MATTER, blackness, books, fantasy
Friendship & family bound by more than blood as the highest form of love? Check. Top-notch worldbuilding with fantasy fully integrated into the modern day? Check. Unapologetic acknowledgement of systemic racism and police brutality as more than just a metaphor? Check. LITERAL Black Girl Magic? Check. A Song Below Water is a balm on the […]
Exclusive Content, The Innkeeper creative writing, serial story
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Book Review, Uncategorized books in translation, Greek, poetry
The tricky thing about translating poetry is that poems often rely on the singular meaning of a word. Often a single word will stand alone, though perhaps accompanied by fragments of a sentence, and it is the task of the translator to imbue the meaning of that word or fragment into different words in the […]
Reflection, Social Justice BLACK LIVES MATTER, Critical Race Theory, hope, marginalized communities, optimisim, pessimism, queer
A year and some months ago, in March 2019, my worldview was entirely different, both in its scope and in its perception of reality. I was taking a critical race theory class at the time, and I was quite frankly frustrated by it, partly because of the material (which was at times triggering) and partly […]
Exclusive Content, poetry breakfast, Dr. Seuss, poetry, politics, Robert Frost
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