Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely too much tea. She is a regular co-host on the All the Books podcast who especially loves mysteries, gothic lit, mythology/folklore, and all things witchy. Vanessa can be found on Instagram at @BuenosDiazSD or taking pictures of pretty trees in Portland, OR, where she now resides.
This film is a cinematic masterpiece. Fight me.
Show off your love of libros with these tees, totes, mugs, and more!
Here's to having more fun, being more annoying, doing more life.
If you know of any authors living a double life, your secret is safe with me.
Evaluating saucy fruit pics, managing cinnamon roll feelings, HR violation typos: all in a day's work.
Get your myth on with these gifts for Greek mythology lovers, from sweet prints and wooden bookmarks to sneakily funny tees.
Think you know that myth? The recent wave of feminist mythology asks you to think again. Vanessa unpacks what makes these retellings so compelling and offers recommendations.
I don’t know when I would have learned about this aspect of Mexican history if reading Like Water for Chocolate had not sent me in search of it.
Getting your first library card is a very big deal, okay? If you have to stay up all night to practice your signature, so be it.