Ladies/women/girls/moms/females, lend us your ears: Is 2015 going to be your year? Then you’re going to want to take a look at this list. Sixteen books by impressive women, about impressive women, and for impressive women to make you…a more impressive woman (and more fulfilled, and financially stable, and successful, and centered).
In an official unofficial poll of me by myself sitting alone at my desk, Mean Girls is the most popular teen movie of the last decade(ish). Why? Because it’s about an outsider who becomes an insider (who becomes an outsider who decides she doesn’t care about being a -sider at all). And who, may I […]
I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that the title of this week’s episode (“Rent”) is also the title of a very well-known late twentieth-century musical written by Jonathan Larson. While this episode was not a musical, strictly speaking, it adhered to some tropes found in classical theatre. These included moments such as Claire […]
Young adult novels have been attracting Hollywood’s attention since before the category existed (The Outsiders, anyone?), and in recent years, many of the most successful box office hits and buzziest television series have come directly from the YA shelves. Page to Screen is a series in which authors whose novels have been adapted for the screen share […]
October’s here, and brings with it one of my favorite times of year—Halloween! Admittedly, it’s not because of the dressing up or the candy, but the chill outside and the horror movies on my TV, the possibility for something truly scary to happen. And graphic novels and comics are a perfect medium for horror, combining […]