Here’s another backlist I recently read as part of a book club with my coworkers. I figured since it’s been slated for production as a television show with HBO though, it might be relevant to some media fans. Readers beware: spoilers are ahead! Also, tw: sexual assault, rape, violence. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor, 2010 Here’sContinueContinue reading “Meagan Reads Speculative Fiction: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor”
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The Benefits of Diverse Reading
Lately, I’ve made a much more conscious effort at reading diversely. We chose The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu for my cousins’ book club. I read Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat for the 2018 Madlibs reading challenge. And for my book club at work with my coworkers, we’re reading Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor.ContinueContinue reading “The Benefits of Diverse Reading”
Why It’s Important to Diversify Your Reading
A never-ending stack of books (Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay) I’ve spent the last two and a half years reading for a book challenge my best friend and I decided to take on. She’s a much faster reader than I am and finished in about a year. It was the first time I’d ever doneContinueContinue reading “Why It’s Important to Diversify Your Reading”
Growing Up With Anne of Green Gables
It took me a little over two years, but I finally finished the 26 book reading challenge! I ended the two-year endeavor with the category “a book you love, read it again,” with Anne of Green Gables. I read this book so many times between 4th and 6th grade that I lost count of howContinueContinue reading “Growing Up With Anne of Green Gables”
Meagan Reads Sci-Fi: The Martian by Andy Weir
The Martian by Andy Weir (Image from Goodreads) I feel like it’s been a while since I picked up a book that made me really excited and breeze through it so fast, even with a full-time job and part-time grad school. Andy Weir’s The Martian did that for me. I read it as my 24thContinueContinue reading “Meagan Reads Sci-Fi: The Martian by Andy Weir”
How a Reader Became a Comic Book Fan: The Comic Book Kid
Comic book onomatopoeia speech bubble (Image by Annalise Batista from Pixabay) I was not, in fact, a comic book kid. They just weren’t something on my radar as a child reader. I had a subscription to a Barbie book club. I frequented the library, and eventually as I got older, Borders Bookstore. But comics wereContinueContinue reading “How a Reader Became a Comic Book Fan: The Comic Book Kid”
A New Way to Book Club
After several years of liking one another’s Goodreads and Facebook statuses, my cousins and I finally had the brilliant idea to start a family book club. Virtual, of course, as we are spread around South and Central Florida, Virginia, and New Jersey. The only problem is, with such varied schedules and reading speeds, picking oneContinueContinue reading “A New Way to Book Club”
How to Get Rid of Books
As I go accumulating more and more books, I have less space available on my bookshelf, naturally. This has made me reevaluate what I allow space on my shelves, so I recently did a bit of a purge. I had kept so many books for so long that I’d never read because I kept tellingContinueContinue reading “How to Get Rid of Books”
How to Read More Books
Image by Eli Digital Creative from Pixabay Gone are the days when I could settle down with one book in my lap, perhaps a snack or two and a hot beverage, and focus on one story line at a time. My attention span has been shot to death with the invention of the internet, andContinueContinue reading “How to Read More Books”