Analysis
The Magic of Book Clubs: More Than Just Reading Together
M Mehran The first time I joined a book club, I thought it would be simple. Read a novel, sip some tea, talk about the characters, go home. What I didn’t expect was how deeply it would reshape the way I see people, stories, and even myself.
By Muhammad Mehran5 months ago in BookClub
The Problem With “Strong Female Characters”
For years, pop culture has celebrated the rise of the “strong female character”—the action-hero archetype who is independent, witty, tough, and often emotionally closed off. While these characters were a necessary reaction to decades of one-dimensional damsels in distress, they’ve created a new limitation: women who don’t fit this narrow mold often get overlooked, undervalued, or erased.
By Jocelyn Paige Kelly6 months ago in BookClub
Problematic Potter Plots: An Analysis of Harry Potter from a Sad, Jaded Adult (1st Book part 1)
Before you jump down my throat like my esophagus is a waterslide, I haven’t bought anything Potter-related in nine years. I do not support J.K. Rowling or her pointless crusade against people trying to live their own lives. She can say that continuing to read her content is an endorsement of her political views all she wants, but I’m a fan of using her own words against her because I’m very petty.
By CT Idlehouse6 months ago in BookClub
Daily Life
Daily Life is the fourth chapter in the book Lost Voices of the Edwardians by Max Arthur. Daily life in the Edwardian Era, in one way, wasn’t that much different to our lives today. They would go to work or school, cook, eat, drink, and have a roof over their heads. The main difference was how they did this and at what ages, and they wore very different clothes.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff6 months ago in BookClub
Messy, Moody, and Real
When I was 15, I vanished from the world for half a semester. No, not in some fantastical Chronicles of Narnia way—though I would’ve preferred that. I was homebound, too sick to go to school. My “classroom” consisted of crackly phone calls with teachers, and my homework was mailed back and forth in fat manila envelopes. (This was before Zoom, before Google Docs—back when connection had to travel slowly, on paper.)
By Jocelyn Paige Kelly6 months ago in BookClub
