Literary Celebrities as Musical Celebrities: An Exploration
Because I teach literature, the idea for this blog post came from the classroom: how do you explain the persona of an author in terms that students can immediately grasp? … Read More
Corona Reads
Summer Tales Update: Our First Discussion is in the Books!
Over at the Summer Tales project we’ve wrapped up a successful month-long discussion of Neil Gaiman’s short story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties“! Students brought a lot of … Read More
Summer with New Jersey books and authors
Summer in New Jersey? Whether you are staycationing or longing to come back to campus, we’ve got you covered! Browse our summer reading recommendations below until the reopening of Rutgers … Read More
Summer Reads: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
(or the peculiar motives to read) It’s no secret that we at Books We Read also host the Summer Tales Book Club, the reading program of the Rutgers Summer Session … Read More
Recommendations: Fiction Books by Queer Black Authors
Going into this week we had planned to write a post to celebrate pride month. However, this week is not a celebration, it is a fight, and it is … Read More
Summer: Time for Audiobooks
Tired of staring at the screen? Finished all the print books at home you had purchased in the past few years? Libraries still closed? How about trying something new? If … Read More
Take a Look, It’s In a Book…
In times of stress we often turn to books for comfort, or even guidance about what to do. In a practice known as bibliomancy, or “book magic,” a person faced … Read More
Blind Dates With Books
Who doesn’t want to be set up with an enchanting stranger — particularly one you can simply put down on the shelf if you don’t find a spark? In the … Read More
From Humans to Gods: a Trip Through the History of Humankind
“This storm will pass. But the choices we make now could change our lives for years to come” – Yuval Noah Harari, Financial Times, March 20, 2020. Following the trend … Read More
Staff Picks: Around the World in 80 Days
Comfort in re-reading Kicked out of our comfort zone and trying to make sense of what is happening around us, I find that a few healthy regressions may help make … Read More