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Reads, Reviews, and Recommendations

| By Keira McDonough, Media & Communications Manager, and continued by Lili Temper, Media & Communications Manager

This column features Keira's and Lili's candid thoughts on the many books they have read since writing for the Nest!

Entertainment & Media

Reads, Reviews, and Recommendations: 2024-2025

I’ll admit, it’s been very difficult to make time to read during my senior year. Between college application season, my AP classes, and my extracurricular tasks (I’m looking at you, theatre), I’ve been drowning in endless to-do lists, so I’ve only managed to read five books—and, yes, three . . .

May 2025 | By Lili Temper, Media & Communications Manager

Entertainment & Media

Reads, Reviews, and Recommendations: Summer 2024

Thanks to my newfound determination to make a dent in the mountain of books sitting on my nightstand and my transition from AP Lang to AP Lit, I’ve managed to knock out quite a few . . .

October 2024 | By Lili Temper, Media & Communications Manager

Entertainment & Media

Reads, Reviews, and Recommendations: 2023-2024

Though a reader at heart, I have not had the time to crack open many books this year thanks to my suddenly overwhelming workload. It’s only because of AP Lang, my newfound commitment to book club, a few late nights, and sheer stubbornness that I’ve managed to read anything at all . . .

May 2024 | By Lili Temper, Media & Communications Manager

Entertainment & Media

Reads, Reviews, and Recommendations: Summer 2022

Howdy folks, hope you all had a literary summer. I, for one, read a truly obscene amount of romance novels, so unfortunately the majority of my reviews will be put on hold until my . . .

October 2022 | By Keira McDonough, Media & Communications Manager

Entertainment & Media

Reads, Reviews, and Recommendations: 2021-2022, Semester 2

Y'all, it's the final issue, so here are the books I read this semester, the books I recommend, and the hastily-written reviews of books I read during exams and didn't really have time to . . .

June 2022 | By Keira McDonough, Media & Communications Manager

Entertainment & Media

Reads, Reviews, and Recommendations: Keira's 2021 Rom-Com Round Up

[The Hating Game by Sally Thorne: 4/5 stars] This book moved way too quickly. Enemies to lovers should be a very slow burn. But despite the fact that they kissed on page 65, overall, it was . . .

January 2022 | By Keira McDonough, Media & Communications Manager

Entertainment & Media

Reads, Reviews, and Recommendations: Summer 2021

[The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid] Summary from Goodreads: "Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her . . .

October 2021 | By Keira McDonough, Media & Communications Manager

Entertainment & Media

Reads, Reviews, and Recommendations: 2020-2021

Man, did I enjoy this book! The plot was carefully thought out, and the plot twists were crafted in such a way that I sort of had an inkling of what was coming next, but I wasn't sure exactly what, or how. The ending toed a very very fine line between a plot twist that nobody sees coming at all . . .

May 2021 | By Keira McDonough

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