Liz Fusco

  Click here to watch the video on Instagram “While the Chaffinch sings on the orchard bough in England - now!” Books that Ruined My Life Part 4: My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan Keywords: Books; bookstagram; booktok; romance books; England; Julia Whelan; My Oxford Year; Bookworm; Reader; GoodReads; Goodreadschallenge; Goodreadschallenge2025; favorite books

  Click here to watch on Instagram! Cheers to Ellis Bell, and you, if you made it through this video. Books that ruined my life part 3: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë ft. my 16 year old lore. Keywords: books; bookstagram; booktok; bookworm; reader; classics; brit lit; Brittish Literatrue; English major; Wuthering Heights; Emily Brontë; Brontë Literary Family; Charlotte Brontë; Anne Brontë; Jane Eyre; goodreads; goodreads reading challenge; goodreads reading challenge 2025  

 Watch the video here! What a beautiful world that I can get a new Hunger Games book at age 25.  Happy double-release day to “Sunrise on the Reaping” and “Everything is TB.” Keywords: Books, Bookworm, Bookstagram, Booktok, Reader, Goodreads, Goodreads reading challenge, Good reads reading challenge 2025, John Green, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Sunrise on the Reaping, Everything is Tuberculosis

 Click here to watch on Instagram This is the last one I swear (maybe). Books that Ruined My Life Part 2: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Read it and weep (probably). . Keywords: books; bookstagram; booktok; favorite books; Daisy Jones; Daisy Jones and the Six; Taylor Jenkins Reid; TJR; The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo; DJATS; Amazon; bookworm; book review; GoodReads; GoodReads challenge 2025 

When I was 13, I read John Green’s most famous novel, “The Fault in Our Stars,” and, like most people who read it in middle school, loved it. I finished it in one day, made my friends read it and watch the movie with me, and envied Shailene Woodley’s effortless-looking midwestern pixie cut for years. The novel was my favorite book for the next two years. That’s 10 percent of my life, just for the record.  Recently, I’ve noticed people who have read “The Fault in Our Stars” starting to bash the book and John Green, which honestly makes me pretty upset. Is it the holy grail of novels I thought it was at age 13? No, of course, it’s not, but it shaped me heavily as a reader and made me realize the joy a good book can bring when it totally encompasses your life. Last summer, I read Green’s debut novel “Looking for Alaska,” and ultimately deemed my favorite of all of his works.  Have you ever imagined what your life would be like as a high school senior away at boarding school in Al...

Back to school — you see it, you hear about it, you’ve probably experienced it at least 12 times if you’re an undergraduate student here at the University of Rhode Island. Maybe you love it, maybe you dread it, maybe you feel like it ruins the precious month of August for you or maybe you think it makes September great.  However you feel about it, going back to school during a pandemic isn’t the easiest thing to do. But being able to do many things on campus that we haven’t been able to do in a year-and-a-half is pretty exciting. And there’s nothing better to put you in the back to school mood than reading a good back to school themed book.  For years, my best back to school stress relief tool has been reading some of my favorite comfort books. But in addition to that, I find that reading books that romanticize the idea of school and academia not only help relieve stress, but also help me get excited for the start of school. So without further ado, here are my top four recomme...

Jeffery Eugenides is thought of as one of the most influential contemporary writers of our generation. Some of his most famous novels include “Middlesex,” “The Marriage Plot” and “Fresh Complaint.” Eugenides’s most famous work, “The Virgin Suicides,” was published in 1993. It won a Pulitzer Prize and was even adapted into a movie in 1999 directed by Sofia Coppola that starred a 16-year-old Kristen Dunst (though I’ve never seen it).  In the fall of 2019, knowing of its elite fame and having been wanting to read it for three years, I finally picked up a copy of the novel at my favorite used bookstore and began reading it. It took me a week to get through — I even read it while waiting at the infamous University of Rhode Island John Mulaney show. With the dedication I had to finish the novel, you’d probably think I loved it.  I hated it.  Look, this isn’t the first book I’ve read and hated. Obviously, everyone has a book they hate, but I would say that this book is the book ...

Last year, this very week, Rhode Island and the rest of the Northeast was hit with a massive blizzard. Maybe you remember it, maybe you don’t, but I certainly do.  The weekend of the blizzard I went home to spend time with my dog and help my parents shovel. Since it was the first weekend of school, I didn’t have a lot of homework, so I decided to take home a book I had been meaning to read for a while.  The book is called “From Lukov with Love”   by Mariana Zapata. I found out about it on TikTok. I had been wanting to read it for a while, but decided that this weekend would be the perfect time, since I knew the book had to do with figure skaters; and not only was this a snowy week inside, but it was also the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games.  The weekend was perfect indeed. Almost too perfect.  I read the entire 538 page book between Saturday and Sunday. The majority of it on Sunday between the hours of 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. I finished the book before wa...

Welcome to track two of the “Daisy Jones and the Six review” — You made it!  Once again, if you haven’t watched the Amazon Prime series or read the book and you plan to do so without spoilers, you’re gonna want to skip this article and come back later.  As I said in last week’s article, according to Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of “Daisy Jones and the Six,” adapting a book into a TV show or movie is not about whether or not changes will be made, but rather, if the changes that are bound to be made reflect well against the overall feelings and world created by the book.  In this  interview , Reid said that this ideal held true for her — and that when watching the “Daisy Jones and the Six” TV show, she felt the exact feelings that she felt while writing the book, even if every detail wasn’t the same.  This statement by Reid is very important to me and how I perceived the show. But as a super fan of all things Daisy Jones, how did the statement hold up among fans?...

Here’s your warning now — If you haven’t seen the Amazon Prime “Daisy Jones and the Six” adaptation and you don’t want to be spoiled, turn away.  “Daisy Jones and the Six” is a story about love triangles, women’s rights (and their wrongs) and soulmates — but it is also a story about music, and we cannot properly analyze the show before we analyze the music.  So analyze, we shall. In the book, the album “Aurora,” consists of 10 tracks. In order, they are “Chasing the Night,” “This Could Get Ugly,” “Impossible Woman,” “Turn it Off,” “Please,” “Young Stars,” “Regret Me,” “Midnights,” “A Hope Like You” and “Aurora.”  However, the “Aurora” album that came out of the TV show consisted of 11 tracks. In order, they are “Aurora,” “Let Me Down Easy,” “Kill You To Try,” “Two Against Three,” “Look at Us Now (Honeycomb),” “Regret Me,” “You Were Gone,” “More Fun to Miss,” “Please,” “The River” and “No Words.”  According to Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of “Daisy Jones and the Six,” ...