A poet is, above anything else, a person passionately in love with language. – W.H Auden Poetry, like anything else in life, is a matter of preference. There are those who …
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Ari Augustine
Wordy Wednesdays
As I was writing PCSR, I struggled because I wanted to use words that brought my world to life. I felt myself resorting to words like “rough” or “glowing” to …
Review: Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
Title: Lord of ShadowsSeries: The Dark Artifices #2Author: Cassandra ClareGenre: Urban fantasyPublisher: McElderry BooksFormat: HardbackISBN: 9781442468405 Summary: A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of …
10 Ways To Stay Creative
Writing, no, life in general, can be exhausting. If you’re anything like me, you’ve filled your days with stimulating experiences, books, and music. Occasionally, I become overwhelmed with all the …
What’s A Word Count?
Don’t be ashamed if you are new to the writing world and haven’t the foggiest what a word count is. Part of the life of a writer is encountering a …
Ten Genres Defined
What the heck is a genre? For a word we use so often to describe our taste in music, books, or art, do we know what it means? A genre …
We Are Okay Book Review
Title: We Are Okay Author: Nina LaCour Genre: YA Fiction Length: 234 pages My rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Blurb: You go through life thinking there’s so much you need… Until …
April 2017 Book Releases
I’m going to keep this short: I want to read these books. You want to read these books. Everyone wants to read these books! The covers are tantalizing, the titles …
A Review of Ozone Journal By Peter Balakian
Title: Ozone JournalAuthor: Peter BalakianGenres: Poetry, #Ownvoices Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: HardcoverISBN: 9780226207032 Summary: The title poem of Peter Balakian’s Ozone Journal is a sequence of fifty-four short sections, each a …
Book Review: The Grownup
Title: The GrownupAuthor: Gillian FlynnGenre: ThrillerPublisher: CrownFormat: HardbackISBN: 9780804188975 Summary: A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April …