Lois Boateng, Social Media Editor I had always heard about this book called “Homegoing,” by the Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, but I never actually got the chance to read it. I was eventually gifted the book by my aunt, who is a book fanatic and is always recommending different ones to me. I recently gained a strong interest in reading African literature. So, I was … Continue reading Book Nook: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Erioluwa Akin-Salami, Contributor I started “The Silent Patient” by Alex Michaelides twice. The first time, I read a few chapters and dropped it. A couple of months later, I gave the book another chance. Now, I can confidently say giving this book a second chance was one of the best decisions I have ever made. What hooked me was that every time I brought the … Continue reading Book Nook: “The Silent Patient,” by Alex Michaelides
María Castaño, A&E Section Editor “A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid situates you in the middle of Antigua, an island in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean known for its beautiful climate and beaches. It is a tourism haven for people around the world, and the book’s main critique is towards the systems that keep it that way. Kincaid offers a poignant critique of tourism … Continue reading Book Nook: A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Laili Shahrestani, Editor-in-Chief Back in 2022 — my senior year of high school — I remember sitting in my AP literature class, listening to my teacher explain how we were reading a 400-page novel about war, invasion, monarchy and so on. I imagined it to be something similar to what you would read in history class: extremely heavy and extremely informational. While that remained true, … Continue reading Book Nook: “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
Marc Veldhuyzen, Contributor A boat sinks in the middle of the ocean. You and a small crew of three barely escape on a row boat. You’re alone in an open boat at sea. No food, no fresh water and nothing but the consistent buoy of the ocean. This is a hopeless situation, and yet, you still struggle. You still desperately row your boat to try … Continue reading The Book Nook: The Open Boat
Marc Veldhuyzen, Contributor Do you hate yourself? Hopefully, no, and statistically the majority of the people reading this don’t. However, there always exists in every community the lowest experiences of human existence. You’re not alone, if your dice happened to land there. It’s not your fault either. One of the hard lessons of the school of life is that control is limited and often illusionary, … Continue reading Book Nook: The Power and the Glory
Marc Veldhuyzen, Contributor It was one of those days where I had little to do and too much to think about, when I decided to do something rash and different to break the suffocating mundanity of my life. So I took a short walk down to the New York Public Library, picked out a random book from the shelf, found myself a secluded section of … Continue reading Book Nook: Invisible Cities
Sunrise on The Reaping’s newly debuted cover. BLOG.BOOKSAMILLION/COURTESY Elizabeth Kalaj, Senior Writer On March 18, Suzanne Collins released her fifth book within “The Hunger Games” series, “Sunrise on the Reaping”. There was a large anticipation towards this release, being that Collins has said in the past that she “only writes when she has something to say”. The story is told in first person point of … Continue reading Book Nook: Sunrise on the Reaping
By Emmanouel Sofillas, Staff Writer As I read into the pages of Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations,” I found myself on an unexpected journey—one that traversed the depths of the human mind and offered an exploration into philosophy. While this book was written millennia ago, it still has valuable knowledge that is impactful today. Aurelius wrote this not as a book for public consumption, but rather as … Continue reading The Book Nook: Meditations
