Crystal’s Corner: Ninth House Book Review
By Crystal Olague || Contributing Writer For this week’s book review, I wanted to talk about Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. This book is a dark academia fantasy fiction novel…
Crystal’s Corner: Better Than The Movies Book Review
By Crystal Olague || Contributing Writer One of the newest romance novels to hit the shelves is Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter. This young adult romance follows two…
Book Review: Ugly Love
By Olivia Schmid || Social Media Manager I know what you’re probably thinking – how do I go from reviewing my favorite self-help books on the market to writing about…
The Gist: Everything is F*cked
By Olivia Schmid || Opinions Editor When I first picked up this book at Barnes and Noble, I couldn’t help but laugh— a book about hope… titled Everything is F*cked?…
The Gist: Women Don’t Owe You Pretty
By Olivia Schmid || Opinions Editor Here’s the gist: it’s been awhile. At this point, we’re practically post-winter, post-Euphoria season 2 episode 5 or 6, and quite frankly, post-all the…
The Gist: The Four Agreements
By Olivia Schmid | | Opinions Editor Although it serves as the smallest book in my self-help book collection (so far), the wisdom found within Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four…
The Gist: Girl, Stop Apologizing
By Olivia Schmid | | Opinions Editor I remember sitting in the window seat of Cafe Arabella (which is just about the most adorable little cafe in my hometown, Lititz,…
One Last Stop Book Review: A Queer Romance Wonderland
By Emily Hanson | | Layout Assistant Picture this for a second: a relationship in mainstream media with two girls and time travel. It sounds too good to be true,…
The Gist: Buy Yourself the Fucking Lilies
By Olivia Schmid | | Opinions Editor One of my best friends from home bought me Tara Schuster’s Buy Yourself the Fucking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life…
The Gist: 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don’t Do (Part 4)
By Olivia Schmid | | Layout Assistant 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don’t Do (13TMSWDD) by Amy Morin makes some phenomenal points about ways women can succeed more in the…
The Gist: 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don’t Do (Part 3)
By Olivia Schmid | | Layout Assistant In the third installation of my miniseries on Amy Morin’s 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don’t Do (13TMSWDD), the focus will be centered…
The Gist: 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don’t Do (Part 2)
By Olivia Schmid | | Layout Assistant Do you consider yourself a perfectionist? Do you avoid being vulnerable because you don’t want to seem weak or too emotional? In the…
The Gist: Chasing the Bright Side
By Olivia Schmid || Columnist The one book I’ve read so far that has inspired me the most has to be Jess Ekstrom’s Chasing the Bright Side: Embrace Optimism, Activate…
The Gist: You are a Badass
By Olivia Schmid || Columnist Some people say that self-help books are useless and taboo; however, I would argue that personal development books (such as the one we will be…
For Memoir Writing Month, News Editor shares recommended memoirs
By Katherine Coble || News Editor November is a big month for writers. It’s NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and National Memoir Writing Month. This week I decided to look…