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Review: Roma Enamorada by Jimena Yengle

Review: The Iliad by Homer

Review: Blankets by Craig Thompson

Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Review: Everything Under the Rainbow by Oskar Leonard

Essay: Atonement by Ian McEwan

Review: Heal-Ink by Awsaf Karim

Review: Cats Alone by Oskar Leonard

Review: Black ≠ Inferior by Tolu' A. Akinyemi

Review: Lighter Fluid by Oskar Leonard

Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Review: The Heir & The Crown by Kiera Cass

Review: A Thousand Perfect Notes by C.G Drews⠀

Review: Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

Essay: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer

Essay: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Best Summer Reads

Review: A Booktiful Love Poetry Collection by Tolu' A. Akinyemi

Essay: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Review: The Selection by Kiera Cass

Dec 28, 20213 min read

Review: Roma Enamorada by Jimena Yengle

Written by Giovanna Napoleone A special book review written by Giovanna Napoleone for Jimena Yengle, a young Peruvian self-published...

Sep 24, 20216 min read

Review: The Iliad by Homer

Written by Giovanna Napoleone "As we get older, we realize that life and death are cyclic, as is the Greeks' fighting, their wars, and...

Jul 30, 20212 min read

Review: Blankets by Craig Thompson

Written by Niha Hasan “𝘞𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵...

Jul 19, 20213 min read

Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Written by Giovanna Napoleone #prideandprejudice #janeausten #bookreview #darcy #elizabethbennet The first phrase within Pride and...

Jun 30, 20213 min read

Review: Everything Under the Rainbow by Oskar Leonard

Written by Giovanna Napoleone "Insecurity of identity in high school whether you are LGBTQ+ or not is faced by all characters of the...

Mar 22, 20215 min read

Essay: Atonement by Ian McEwan

Written by Giovanna Napoleone Written for an english class her senior year of high school, Giovanna Napoleone recounts the connection of...

Jan 29, 20212 min read

Review: Heal-Ink by Awsaf Karim

Written by Niha Hasan "Everyone has bad days sometimes, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel." Rating: 5/5 Heal-Ink is a...

Jan 25, 20212 min read

Review: Cats Alone by Oskar Leonard

Written by Giovanna Napoleone “We need harmony and togetherness…” Cats Alone by Oskar Leonard is targeted for middle school audiences,...

Nov 8, 20203 min read

Review: Black ≠ Inferior by Tolu' A. Akinyemi

Written by Giovanna Napoleone Tolu' A. Akinyemi’s “Black and Unique” poem was first seen on the GN Books website last Spring, as a...

Aug 26, 20203 min read

Review: Lighter Fluid by Oskar Leonard

Written by Giovanna Napoleone “Maybe they just wanted to get away from everything and everyone for a while, or maybe they wanted to try...

Aug 20, 20202 min read

Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Written by Niha Hasan "This is the beginning of their timeless love story." Written in the Georgian Era, Pride and Prejudice is a...

Aug 12, 20203 min read

Review: The Heir & The Crown by Kiera Cass

Written by Giovanna Napoleone “You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers." I JUST FINISHED THIS SERIES...

Jul 23, 20202 min read

Review: A Thousand Perfect Notes by C.G Drews⠀

Written by Niha Hasan Rating 5/5 "This story is emotionally charged about domestic violence, abuse, music, animal love, and one's own...

Jul 2, 20202 min read

Review: Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

Written by Niha Hasan “Bio always trumps foster...” This is a story about 3 teen siblings: Grace, Maya, Joaquin who are separated into...

Jun 17, 20209 min read

Essay: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer

"I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything." In his novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan...

May 24, 20204 min read

Essay: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.” Written during the 1500s, William Shakespeare's...

May 24, 20204 min read

Best Summer Reads

Everybody loves a summer read to take by the beach or pool, so here are some of our favorites! 1.I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson To...

May 24, 20203 min read

Review: A Booktiful Love Poetry Collection by Tolu' A. Akinyemi

A short yet entertaining read, A Booktiful Love by Tolu' A. Akinyemi is a poetry collection of works that assess the damage done to our...

May 24, 20206 min read

Essay: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

A rhetorical analysis on Quentin Compson - a suicidal character within a classic book written about Antebellum Southern Society using a...

May 24, 20202 min read

Review: The Selection by Kiera Cass

Just like the bachelor. But better. Welcome to the Selection: "The chance to change your life". When Miss America Singer, a young girl...

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