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7 Short Stories and Novellas to Get You Through December If you’re anything like me, you obsessively set goals— resolutions, if you will— every January and fall through most of them by December. However, a goal that I will set my life around is the Goodreads Reading Challenge. Since 2019, I’ve been setting goals ranging from 50 to 75 books a year, and since 2019,… Continue reading
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The New Chapter: Saying Thank You and Goodbye to NaNoWriMo October— fall, Halloween, pumpkin spice, Preptober. And Preptober can only mean one thing: next month is November, NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo, or NaNo for short) challenges writers to write 50,000 words of a manuscript in 30 days. I attempted this challenge four times— all in high school— and won 3 of those times (the… Continue reading
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September Reading: Ocean Vuong, Donna Tartt, and Hemingway In September, I read two novels and a few of short stories. Here’s what I thought. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong My rating: 5/5 stars “The monarchs that fly south will not make it back north. Each departure, then, is final. Only their children return; only the future revisits the past.” You’ve… Continue reading
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It’s Been a Year: Reflecting on my High School Study Abroad Experience with CIEE Meandering through cobblestone paths, eating on cathedral steps, riding the metro, speaking in French, and, like what French icon Edith Piaf said, living la vie en rose— that was how I spent the summer before my senior year of high school. I participated in a CIEE Global Navigator High School Program in Rennes, France. This… Continue reading
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