Here are very short reviews of a few good books — During the pandemic, I actually haven’t read as much as usual. Real life has been distracting lately. Combined with some personal struggles and my final semester of college, reading just hasn’t been at the top of my list of things to do. …

Rating: 5/5 Stars This book is good for: People with a basic understanding of Biology/interest in modern medicine, Pre-med students, students interested in research, anyone interested in end of life care or health policy. This book is not good for: A light/fun casual read. Do NOT send this to a…

Roxane Gay takes up space. In your brain, on the page, on Twitter — and she wants you to know it too. In the Bad Feminist essayist’s newest book Hunger, Gay tackles her own complicities and insecurities, tracing her life as a black fat queer woman through the events that…

What does it mean to die with dignity? This is the question that I found myself pondering constantly throughout Doughty’s second book (230 pages), but the answer seems to change based on where you are and who you ask — and I came away from the book thinking that the…

Between the World & Me is the first 5 star read I’ve had in a long time, but it deserves every single star. I first learned about Coates after he spoke at the Ohio State University this past spring. Before then, I’d only seen his name on Twitter and in…

When I first picked up I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, Maggie O’Farrell’s 300-page memoir, at the end of April, I thought it would be a quick afternoon read, but I pretty quickly decided that this wasn’t going to be the case after the first couple…

The new documentary covers the fight for religious freedom in the United States in a unique and entertaining light — COLUMBUS — When you first think about Satanism, you probably think about sex cults, blood, and people wandering around in black cloaks trying to kill babies. …

Millennials are ruining everything and now they’re destroying books too. This is a sentiment that I’ve seen repeated over and over again on the internet, from headlines to Facebook posts to concerned inspirational posters in classrooms. When E-readers were introduced in the 2000s people stumbled over themselves to publish think…

Spring Finals Week is always one of the most relaxed weeks of the year for me. My freshman year of college I watched all of Game of Thrones during spring finals week and my sophomore year I watched stand up comedy specials. Being a creative writing major means that most…