Laura Sackton is a queer book nerd and freelance writer, known on the internet for loving winter, despising summer, and going overboard with extravagant baking projects. In addition to her work at Book Riot, she reviews for BookPage and AudioFile, and writes a weekly newsletter, Books & Bakes, celebrating queer lit and tasty treats. You can catch her on Instagram shouting about the queer books she loves and sharing photos of the walks she takes in the hills of Western Mass (while listening to audiobooks, of course).
For our spreadsheet nerds out there: here are the most interesting stats one reader tracked this year.
Reading challenges that won't stress you out, and that you can take as long to finish as you want!
Easy instructions for how to gift a kindle book, some great tips for how to creatively wrap ebooks, and a few other great ideas for digital book gifts.
How Upper Story Books became one reader's haven, where she was not labeled other, weird, "the poet, or "the lonely writer."
Looking to weave racial justice into your reading life? Here are ten tips to help you become a more actively anti-racist reader.
An avid reader of romance talks about her decision to exclusively read queer romance, and the prevalence of straight stories in publishing.
"In every romance novel I’ve read so far, I know what’s going to happen: two (or more) people want to be together, and in the end, they will be."
One reader on the love of buying local.
Ways to keep time spent doing book-adjacent things from getting in the way of actually reading books.