• Hotel Nantucket Book Review

    Hotel Nantucket Book Review

    Summers for me have always meant chirping cicadas, humid evenings, and melting on the porch with a sweating glass of sweet tea in hand. I’m quickly learning, however, that summer should be for Elin Hilderbrand novels instead! Though I am new to this author entirely, Hilderbrand herself is not new to the literary world in…


  • My Thoughts on Mary Oliver: An Upstream Review

    My Thoughts on Mary Oliver: An Upstream Review

    Mary Oliver is undeniably one of my favorite authors. Through her writing, she is able to take some of the most mundane aspects of life and transform them into extraordinarily poetic experiences. What I would give to crawl inside her head and see the world as she does. In Upstream, I am able to do…


  • What I’m Reading, Vol. 1

    With the new year comes new reading possibilities. As a graduate student, my TBR list is full of textbooks covering topics of information organization and retrieval. When I need an escape from the complexity of academia, I have recently found myself turning to young adult fantasy novels. This genre is fairly new to me as…