Brandie DeRusha

With her MA in English from Rutgers University-Camden, Brandie spends her days chasing around her toddlers and writing. She loves to pair wine with her reading; preferably a Brontë, or an Elliot, or a Woolf novel. Depending on the mood. She currently lives in Florida with her husband, two kids and furry beast.

29 Books That Make You Happy Long After The Last Page

Your Guide To The Essential Jacqueline Woodson Books

10 Speed Reading Apps to Help You Tackle Your TBR

15 Books For 4-Year-Olds That Are Absolutely Perfect

What books for 4 year olds are appropriate in this in between time of not quite being toddlers anymore and not quite ready for school? Here's the best.

Use Books to Inspire Your Kids to Love Fall

Libraries, picnics, and bedtime ideas to help your kids learn to love fall.

What I Read When I Miss My Mother

24 Poems About Family And Its Utterly Unique Bonds

Family sees the best and worst in us. What better art form can we find that examines the complicated nature of family than poems about family?

Why I Am Choosing to Read DRACULA Instead of FRANKENSTEIN This Fall

A reader on Bram Stokers treatment of the male ego, women characters, monsters, and on why she's reading DRACULA instead of her usual fall fave.

Black and Indigenous Authors You Should be Reading

Joy Harjo, Austin Channing Brown, and more Black and Indigenous authors for your TBR.

Slog Through the Summer of our Discontent with these Gothic and Science Fiction Titles

Cool down and escape the news with these chilling gothic novels and tales of the end of the world (and its recovery).