Zendrah Bonnick, Assistant News Editor In 2024, Kaveh Akbar published his debut novel, “Martyr!” Akbar is an Iranian writer with extensive experience writing poetry and is known for “Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Pilgrim Bell. Martyr!” is a tragic yet beautiful and lively story of a human search for meaning, dealing with difficult subject matters of substance abuse, suicide, war, and violence. “Martyr!” is … Continue reading Book Nook: “Martyr!”, by Kaveh Akbar
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 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
Cover of The Clementine Complex by Bob Mortimer.SIMON & SCHUSTER/COURTESY Flynn Myers, Contributor The Clementine Complex, a fictional novel written by author Bob Mortimer, demonstrates that dry humor woven into a murder-romance makes for a fun read. For readers who enjoy blunt humor, awkward situations and a good mystery, this is the novel for you. The story follows Gary Thorn, a legal assistant in London, … Continue reading Book Nook: A Review of The Clementine Complex
By Elizabeth Kalaj, Web Editor “Smash the patriarchy, sweetheart” is the dedication of the novel “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”. These words alone and the fact that the novel shares an author with “Daisy Jones and the Six” inspired me to read the book. This book is a standalone read, which also made it appealing to me. Taylor Jenkins Reid is notorious for creating … Continue reading Book Nook: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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
Rebecca Yaros, just released the second novel in the series, which has already received widespread praise. AMAZON/COURTESY By Adrianne Hutto, Production Editor “A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead,” is the opening line of the intense fantasy novel Fourth Wing. The author, Rebecca Yaros, just released the second novel in the series, which has already received widespread … Continue reading Book Nook: Fourth Wing
