BookTok’s Hottest Romance Reads
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9 Chilling Thrillers About Marriage
Domestic thrillers primarily focus on interpersonal relationships, with marriage as a popular theme. As a setting, marriage provides the world in which the primary characters live. Their home, their lives, even their jobs are contextualized by the often volatile marriage that sets the tone for the main plot. The particular marriage of a thriller has its own culture and rules which the protagonist struggles to live by.
What’s Your Read Harder Challenge Strategy?
We’re a couple weeks into the 2025 Read Harder Challenge, and I want to know: what’s your strategy? Do you do the tasks in order? If not, do you start with the easiest ones or the most difficult ones? Do you wait for the recommendation post/newsletter to come out for that task before you attempt it? Do you come up with a TBR for every task beforehand?
Envisioning a Student Bill of Rights in an Era of Censorship
Anti-censorship advocates champion students’ rights to a robust public education and wide access to a diverse, inclusive array of materials in their public schools and public libraries. The curriculum and materials must represent the reality of the world around young people and provide the tools, skills, and insight into the world into which they’ll become adults.
9 of the Hottest Romance Reads on BookTok
BookTok, in some ways, moves at a snail’s pace and, in other ways, moves at the speed of light. Sometimes, Toks from June or October come up, and we’re having the same conversation again. And sometimes, things go wildly viral overnight.
These Horror Novels Don’t Have Monsters
New horror fans and seasoned readers alike can appreciate the terrifying ideas and slow creeping dread of monster-free horror. Without the supernatural goblins and ghouls to provide the shivers, these novels rely on deep-seeded fears of humanity.