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From ROHO to MOHO: Top 5 places to buy textbooks for classes at Mount Holyoke...
As the new term approaches, there is always the excitement of the new classes to look forward to. However, when reading the syllabuses, there is always the mandatory reading and books which put you...
View ArticleA Look Back: How to utilize our time after the holidays
So the Christmas-shopping craze has passed, the hams and turkeys have been eaten and forgotten, a new year has begun, and we can finally take a few weeks to just..breathe. But, in this free-time, we...
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Eckerd College: Tips to help you save on textbooks
“Photo Courtesy of Mike Starling” With all of the expenses college students face, overpriced text books are the last things we want to deal with. Sure, it’s easy to just go to the campus bookstore to...
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Homoerotic Subtext in Literature Classics
Nowadays, any type of close same-sex friendship causes speculation about the sexual orientation of said pair. Many members of the media, general public, and especially the academic world enjoy...
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A Meditation on the Effects of Genre
Every book we pick up is published with the intention of falling within the parameters of a particular genre, or sometimes, even a mix of several. This quarter, I am one of five students to be taking a...
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Amazing Memoirs Part 1: “Liars’ Club,”“Cherry” and “Lit”
Personally I love memoirs, especially memoirs that include psychological aspects. In this article series I will review memoirs that I have particularly enjoyed so that I can pass on and share my...
View ArticleFifty Shades of Grey and Relationship Abuse
Fifty Shades of Grey has sold over sixty-five million copies worldwide. The book is a phenomenon amongst young and middle aged women. It has been described as a great romance, a freeing story, and...
View ArticleGoing Mental: Reading Books More Than Once Has Mental Health Benefits
Are you feeling that reading Romeo and Juliet for the 8th time is going to make you insane? You probably think to yourself, “I’ve already read this once, why do I need to read it again?” Well, when you...
View ArticleDown With the Five Paragraph Essay
Five-paragraph essays are the training wheels of writing. The standard of writing for 7th-12th grades throughout the U.S. that seems to be the end-all of writing styles; that once one can fulfill this...
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The Benefits of Reading: 5 Reasons Why You Should Read More Books
Book lovers are a dying breed today due to the emergence of television, movies, and the Internet. In today’s fast paced world, people consider spending time reading a book to be expendable and are...
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8 Simple Rules for Writers in College
Writing by tonyhall/Flickr.com/Creative Commons When it comes to writing for oneself in college (fiction, non-fiction, or in between), the issue of time is the one that interferes the most. If you are...
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Amazing Memoirs Part 2: “An Unquiet Mind”
“An Unquiet Mind” written by Kay Jamison (photo by Anna Smith) I have been meaning to read “An Unquiet Mind” by Kay Jamison for years. Recently, I finally decided to stop putting it off and got it out...
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Literary Crushes
It happens to everyone. You’re in the book, running around on some great adventure, then you look at him, the hero of the story…and you slowly realize that you’ve been falling for him all along. The...
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Love and Philosophy
love hunt by theodoritsis/ flickr.com/ Creative Commons On an idle moment on Valentine’s Day, I found Great Philosophers who Failed at Love by Andrew Shaffer on my bookshelf. It was calling out to...
View ArticleSaving Adobe Books
I was originally going to write a piece about the dash cam phenomenon in mother Russia this week and how an estimated one million people have them installed in their cars due to police bribery,...
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5 Books from English Majors
Studying English at MSU has led me to many different kinds of genres of books, plays, poems, screenplays, memoirs and tons of other pieces of literature, both life-changing and dreadful. The point is I...
View ArticleWhat to Read over Spring Break
Spring break is coming up fast, and I don’t know about you, but I love having a few books to read while I’m lying out at the beach. Although the books that I read change every year, I find that I tend...
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Books vs. eReaders: Which Is Better?
Photo courtesy of Paul Floro via Mundobit With eReaders and eBooks on the rise, the traditional publishing companies are overseeing drastic changes; and many wonder where this leaves the physical,...
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Cheap Book Tips!
Everyone in the general college population knows what it means to live on a Top Ramen and Spaghettios diet. This is due to not only tuition costs, but also relies heavily on textbooks’ increased...
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When Life Throws a Curveball- How to Not Get Derailed
It’s finals week. You have exams, a paper to write, speech to give, and a book to finish. Mid-week, life happens. An unforeseeable circumstance completely out of your control threatens to throw you...
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