We Were Liars had been on my Amazon wish list for more than six years. After its publication in 2014, the YA novel spent quite some time on bestseller lists. Then again in 2020 – because of TikTok. The book ...
Have you ever heard of the Streisand effect? The Streisand effect is a phenomenon whereby the attempt to suppress something only brings more attention or notoriety to it. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-watching-streisand-effect-barbra In 2003, Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman for a photo ...
Emma Cline’s stories have been published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Granta. She got a major book deal for The Girls (2016) and won prizes for her writing. And a while ago, her first book was all ...
So, I read classics, I recently learned I enjoy reading memoirs, I like contemporary literature, fantasy as well as urban and historical fiction. Romance novels are something I have never really read before. There is no reason for it really, ...
Writing about memoirs is something I find really hard, because the book’s content is so personal to someone I have most likely never met in my life. After having listened to Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton on ...
A few years back, Everything I Know About Love was all over Bookstagram. You would see the cover everywhere. Only four years later, I finally read it. Or, rather, listened to Dolly Alderton, the author, read the book. It has ...