I remember when Taylor Swift’s 1989 album came out. After a couple of years of liking Swift’s music in secret, almost overnight, she became the new celebrity of the moment—it was now officially cool to listen to Taylor Swift. Many fans still ardently uphold 1989 as her best album—undoubtedly, it was the album with the most cultural influence, launching Swift from a country singer to a mainstream...
Fourth Wing For fans of fantasy, romance, and action. Synopsis: Having trained her whole life to be a scribe, Violet’s life is upturned when she is enlisted in the dragon rider quadrant of Basgiath War College. She’s faced with a series of challenges and forms alliances (both human and dragon) throughout her training. Outside the school’s walls, a war escalates and Violet suspects that what...
Your Next Netflix Binge Might Not Be What You’d Expect NB: spoilers have been denoted with spoiler warnings. A little while ago, my partner had some classmates over at his place to study. I was heating up a leftover poke bowl (yuck, I know), listening to him and his peers debate the delicacies of obstetric medicine. One of them popped into the kitchen to grab a drink. While I picked at my...
Not only have I been an avid dog lover for most of my life, I would even go so far as to say that at times, I could have qualified as a cat hater by some standards. I didn’t understand why so many people would prefer to keep pets that were harder to train, more aloof, less friendly, and veritably moodier than dogs. I didn’t get cats. I didn’t understand how some were “outdoor,” or how “orange”...