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Brighter Side: Romance novels
March 24, 2025By: Dani Santos, Peak Associate There’s nothing like being engrossed in a good romance novel. One minute, I’m on chapter one, and the next, the author is concluding the characters’ story in an epilogue — time can go by really fast when you’re invested. Many people criticize the genre, often calling it “unrealistic” or claiming it’s “the lesser” literature, but can you blame us romance readers for just wanting a taste of a fairytale? Each page transforms a mundane rainy day or keeps me company on a sunny one spent at the beach, and that’s the best part! Each novel…
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Academia needs a lesson in simplicity
October 10, 2023By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer We’ve all tried to read a paragraph in a text, only to go back and reread it, with no greater success in absorbing the information. Why is academia so convoluted? It doesn’t need to be…
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Contemporary African authors you should add to your reading list this summer
June 26, 2017By: Jackline Obungah 1.Taiye Selasi Ghana Must Go Ghana Must Go is a deeper illustration of Selasi’s “afropolitanism.” A fresh breath into the diverse realm of African literature, the book weaves through cultural complexities whilst tackling themes such as migration…
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Book of the Week: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
May 16, 2017It is hard to know where to begin with this one. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an extremely talented writer. She conveys the emotions and thoughts of each of her characters in a very real and relatable way; it is impossible…
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Stuff We Like And Don’t Like: Summer Reading Edition
May 5, 2017By Gabrielle McLaren Stuff we like: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016) Effia is a village girl in Ghana who grows up to marry a British slaver. Unbeknownst to her, her half-sister Esi is sold from the very castle in which…
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Save your disdain for eReaders!
November 24, 2014How many times have you asked or been asked: “How can you read on that thing? I love the feel of a real book. I hate eReaders.” Whether you’re the one hearing it or the one saying it, I understand…
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To read, or not to read
September 2, 2014How do the words of a dead man affect you? In Shakespeare’s case, the ways could be countless. This year marked the Bard’s 450th birthday, and consequently raised the following question: are his works still relevant today? The answer is…
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