It’s no secret that I love Greek mythology. I referred to myself as a “mythology girl” on our Odyssey episode of Novel Pairings and shared my love for my tattered copy of Edith Hamilton’s book of myths. As an adult reader, I can’t resist a mythological retelling. Most of the retellings I’ve encountered recently have […]

There’s something about Spring that evokes the desire for renewal. Whether we’re cleaning out our closets, reemerging from a (particularly brutal) winter hibernation, or recommitting to our yearly intentions, the spring season is all about fresh starts. Here are 8 books featuring characters who are starting over, reinventing themselves, or trying something new to help […]

I’m trying not to get ahead of myself, but the temperatures in Denver are climbing and I can taste summer reading season in the air. This March, I read two of what are sure to be summer’s buzziest books, and I’m breaking down what I loved about them to help you decide if they’re right […]

Between the website launch and the inaugural month of the Novel Pairings Patreon community, March was a very busy month for me, but I still managed to fit in some really wonderful books, delicious meals, and fun movies. I also did quite a bit (read: too much) shopping because March is my birthday month, so […]

I am not great with habits. Every January, I think about how I’d like to institute more routines into my daily life, and every year I fail. But while I don’t have daily habits or rituals that make me feel like a reader, I do have some general practices that make my life more literary […]

In honor of this weekend’s Academy Awards, I’m sharing my five favorite book to movie adaptations. I generally think the book is always better, but some of these films prove that adage wrong by doing justice to, or even outshining, their source material. Sense and Sensibility (1995) Since I was about 10 years old, I’ve […]