By Karlie Shoffner Taylor Jenkins Reid’s hit novel Daisy Jones & The Six is the story of a fictional 1970s rock band and their rapid rise to stardom. For fans of bands like Fleetwood Mac, this book encapsulates the drama that many bands at the time faced with their newfound fame: relationship issues, cheating scandals, […]

In 2022 I read a total of seventy books. Some books I didn’t care for and others I thought were just okay, but there were some that really stood out to me. It was difficult to narrow my picks down to just four and choose the best of the best, but after looking over what […]

Dustin Pearson is the author of three poetry books; A Season in Hell with Rimbaud, Millenial Roost, and A Family is a House. His writings have been featured in numerous literary journals and have won multiple awards including ones from the Katherine C. Turner and John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Awards and the […]

By Karlie Shoffner Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes Review Dead Silence is a science fiction story centered around the mysterious disappearance of a once-luxurious space cruise ship and the company conspiracies that surround it. Claire Kovalik and her crew are at the end of their final mission when suddenly they receive mysterious SOS signals from a […]

By Morgan Gunther As we head into the month of romance, here are a few of my favorite romance books from my bookshelf! “It Ends With Us” and “It Starts With Us” Colleen Hoover Made popular by BookTok, Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us tells the experience of Lily Bloom’s passionate romance with Ryle while grappling […]

By Karlie Shoffner If you don’t enjoy romances but still want to read books that discuss love for Valentine’s Day, these are the books for you. Though they still hold romantic scenes, these books offer so much more than just romance. Ranging from a novel about a mysterious circus that appears overnight to a book […]

By Faith Zochowski If you are looking for the perfect Christmas teen romance novel, you’ve found the perfect suggestion here. Writers Rachel Cohn and David Levithan collaborated to write Dash and Lily which is a series of three novels all telling the story of Dash and Lily and their romance during the Christmas season. Book […]

Shakespeare: Dying Classics By: Morgan Gunther As defined by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and Damned, a classic is “a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation”. As we look into what pieces of literature are considered classics to date, this definition reigns true. But what happens when […]

By Faith Zochowski The holiday season is upon us, and that means everyone is surely culminating items for their Christmas wish list. As an avid reader, books always take up a large portion of my list each year.  Check out some of the books below that I have on my Christmas list to see if […]

By Faith Zochowski  Studying, drinking coffee, and reading books are all typical activities for college students. Grounds for Thought and Novel Blends are two locations located in downtown Bowling Green where students can go to participate in these pastimes.  Grounds for Thought owners Kelly and his wife Laura Wicks opened the doors to their coffee […]