Challenge is one of the best and most critical components of life. While challenge is perceived to be antagonizing and inevitable, it allows us to develop in interesting ways.
Posts published in “Book of the Week”
Book of the Week is an Opinion culture column created by Keenan Yates ‘23 used to give weekly book recommendations in the form of short blurbs and reviews.
The word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the first Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of going on a trip to a lake with my friends is how much fun we will all have together.
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. Unless: in 2011, Jake Epping, an English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, sets out on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
As I reflect on this book, a thought welcomes itself into the menagerie of thoughts already bundled in my mind. It comes to me that a book cover never resonated more with the secrets it keeps within its pages as much as this dark satirical masterpiece.
In Dublin, summer of 1984, mothers call their children home. However, three children will not be returning home from the dark and silent woods that night, and two of those children will never be returning home.
Every family has its unfortunate realities, experiencing the harshness of life in such a way that seems like a perpetual cycle of misery and affliction.
Ove, a grumpy yet loveable man, finds his solitary world turned upside down when a friendly, loud, young family moves in next door.
Considered one of the world’s wonders, the Amber Room was a mesmerizing beauty built in the 18th century, a chamber paneled with 10,000 lbs of pure amber and decorated with mirrors and gold.
The protagonist in any crime or detective novel follows the stereotype of being a male detective who devotes his career to catching the antagonist in hopes of validation from himself or others while learning a lesson on how to embody the unbreakable masculine persona.