Fiction teaches us lots of things we might never need to use: how to win the Hunger Games, how to react upon learning you’re a wizard, what to do if a werewolf falls in love with you. But it also gives us life lessons we actually need, wrapped in narratives we can’t stop reading: how to empathize […]
With news that Rainbow Rowell’s next YA novel will be Carry On, a fantasy novel based on the fanfic epic embedded in last year’s Fangirl, comes joy, flailing, and a desire to reread Fangirl immediately. And after you’ve raced through Cath and Levi’s adorable, slow-motion college romance, with stops in the Harry Potter-esque world of Simon Snow, read these […]
Being the Flawless Human that she is, Taylor Swift is clearly top-notch BFF material. Let’s face it, she just gets us. All of her songs are like perfect little completely relatable stories distilled into three minute sonic gut-punches. Listening to her sing about love and betrayal and heartache makes you wonder how Taylor could have possibly […]
If there’s one thing anyone who’s watched The Breakfast Club knows, it’s that anyone can be a misfit. It isn’t just about how you fit into the world around you, but how you fit into your own skin. As adults we eventually learn that what makes us different is what makes us cool, but in […]
She’s blonde, she’s a cheerleader, she’s out to get your best friend for no apparent reason, she’s the ever-popular mean girl of the fictional teen universe! And while we love a good mean girl, we also wonder about her backstory. Why does she hate everyone? What’s going on behind the scenes? Here are some of our favorite books […]