Book Review: Aroma of Beauty
“Beauty could not rebuild our cities, but it helped to rebuild our humanity and to bring us closer to one another. Beauty could not bring back family and friends, but […]
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: The Spirit of Appalachian Music
“We don’t charge for tickets, because sometimes hungry people need music the most.” (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, pp. 365) One of my favorite aspects of Suzanne Collins new […]
Celebrating Poetry: Hope is the Thing with Feathers
This month’s LitWyrm Book-a-month challenge is reading poetry. Since April is National Poetry month, we want to celebrate this beautiful form of literature. Whether by picking up a poetry collection, […]
American Son: A Poetry Book Review
“We cry for grief/ a long cry for grief/ America cries for we/ daughters and sons/ growing like grains of wheat in a dry and weary land/ put the tears […]
3 Reasons I Love “The Girl Who Drank the Moon” and Why You Will Too
“There is magic in starlight, of course. This is well known. But because the light travels such a long distance, the magic in it is fragile and diffused, stretched into […]
Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Transformation of a Family
When Gregor Samsa wakes up as a cockroach in Franz Kafka’s short story, Metamorphosis, the reader is left wondering how and why such a thing occurred. The characters themselves, however, […]