Book

In light of this week being the National Young Readers Week, I thought it would be nice to share some of my favorite story books growing up. My grandmother was an elementary school teacher who won Teacher of...

When I heard the news that Veronica Roth, the “New York Times” bestselling author of the “Divergent” series, was coming to Fairfield University to promote her newest book, I immediately purchased a...

Reading is a great way to engulf yourself in a new world with new characters and their individual plots and character arcs. While being entertained by a new setting is fun, sometimes it’s good to have...

Summer is fast approaching and the excitement that surrounds this season is already kicking in: more free time, trips to the beach, long summer nights and seeing friends from home. However, my favorite summer...

I’ve been called a “dirty feminist” and enough offensive words against my gender to charge up a small motor that runs on fragile masculinity. Thus, I’ve read a lot of phenomenal “woman power,”...

I have a few fond memories surrounding Fairfield’s downtown bookstore but one, in particular, stands out. My freshman year, I was doing homework in the Starbucks on Post Road, inside the bookstore, and the...

Last year I wrote an essay on the Native American Cinderella story. In its most recent rendition, it was published as a children’s picture book called “The Rough Faced Girl” by Rafe Martin. In the...

This might sound ridiculous, but there’s something magical about a public library. I grew up with this magic.  See, I read quite quickly. At the peak of my book consumption, I could blow through 10...

I’ve always been a big reader, but when I’m on campus I struggle to even finish a single book. I go back and forth to my classes and clubs, get my work done and by the time all of that’s over, all I want...

Laura Ivy is an employee at the Fairfield University Bookstore and the concept artist behind the Silent Book Club. She read about it in a National Public Radio article and went searching for something similar...