What has Marvel Comics taught us?
We all love our superheroes. With everyone impatiently waiting for the next Avengers film (after the emotional heartache we went through with Avengers: Infinity…
Literature
The Kite Runner: A Book Review
I had a love-hate relationship with kite flying as a kid. It was always so hard to get the flimsy thing flying above shoulder…
Discovering Early Feminist Literature: Before 1990
In light of the recent events surrounding the issues of sexual harassment, gender pay gap and the controversial status of women in today’s world,…
Top 5 Literary Podcasts
Our lifespan is far too short to read books all the time. This realization has led me to podcasts, which I have admittedly become…
Merman Romance: An Analysis of The Pisces by Melissa Broder
2018 sees a resurgence of merfolk in literature and popular culture. The year began with famous director, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of…
Book Recommendations: The All-Time Favorite Kind
Not all books have the ability to keep getting to you no matter how many times you read them. Both personal differences as well…
How to Get Out of a Reading Slump
We’ve all suffered it at least once. Every reader’s worst nightmare- reading slumps! They are the absolute worst. One minute you’re engulfing books one…
The Profound Realities in Neil Gaiman’s Fantasy Novel
‘Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.’ I recently bought and read ‘The Ocean at The End of the Lane’…
Dreams, Religion, Literature In Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols
There are great similarities between religions and mythologies since most mythologies have at some point been religions. Greek mythology is called so because it…
Why Do We Re-Read Some Books?
If you guys are anything like me, you’ll have a weekly shopping binge, the scientific term being Retail Therapy (Rifai, 2018) and you’ll end…