Island Bookstore, Corolla, NC

Whenever I’m on vacation, I always try to scope out a local independent bookshop. During my family’s week-long trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, I was happy to drag them to Corolla’s Island Bookstore! Island Bookstore has three locations across the Outer Banks, in Corolla, Duck, and Kitty Hawk, but I was most […]

Current Reads: May 28, 2019

What’s better than a day of reading on the beach? Absolutely nothing! As you can see from my packing list, I brought along quite a selection of books to choose from. Right now I’m filling my oceanside hours with Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage, which follows a young married couple as the husband is wrongfully […]

Packing the Paperbacks: A Week in the Outer Banks

One of my favorite parts about going on vacation is packing the books I want to read on my journey! Tomorrow morning my family and I will be making the twelve-hour road-trip to our rental house in Nags Head, North Carolina, where we’ll be for the entire week in the sand, listening to the ocean […]

White Teeth // Zadie Smith

I adored Smith’s latest novel, Swing Time (2016), when I read it back in January, though Zadie fans warned me it was her worst, that I should start with something well-loved like her debut, White Teeth. Here I am, just a few short months later, having finished White Teeth: and I can honestly say I […]

Short Story Collections I Want to Read

Fiction is my jam, but sometimes life gets too busy to immerse myself into a beastly novel. Enter: the short story. I don’t read many stories beside the occasional literary magazine, certainly not a collection of stories by a singular author, but I’d like to remedy that, starting with these. Each collection listed here is […]

Dept. of Speculation // Jenny Offill

I read Dept. of Speculation in one sitting, absolutely unable to put down Offill’s sparkling spare prose. If I hadn’t borrowed my copy from the library, I would have underlined basically the entire novel; Offill writes through a remarkably keen perspective. Dept. of Speculation is the kind of novel you want to sit and clutch […]

Normal People // Sally Rooney

It’s safe to say Sally Rooney is the author of the moment, and has been for a while now. I was nervous to pick up Normal People, Rooney’s sophomore effort, after loving her debut Conversations with Friends so darn much. I didn’t devour Normal People like I did Conversations; its time-jump structure begs for a […]