Feature: The Impact of Youth with Influencer Parents – 2 Stories to Read If you’ve read the news this week, you may have seen that Washington state is taking steps to regulate child influencers. Child influencers are an evolution of child actors, with less privacy and even fewer protections. While […]
#SBS January & February Monthly Wrap-Up Welcome to our monthly feature where we talk about what we read, adopted into our libraries, and what’s on our minds. After hosting #SignedBookSundays on instagram for 4+ years, we are transitioning to this format as a way to share signed books and talk about bookish […]
Feature: Sci-Fi Books That Explore the Complexity of the (possible) Future Every day we get closer to living out a version of Black Mirror. ChatGPT, an AI dialogue service, is all over the news right now, with students and engineers using it for papers and code. Electric and automatic driving […]
Blog Tour & Feature: Reading & Watching Recs for Fans of The Buried and the Bound by Rochelle Hassan We here at BookCrushin are big fans of the weird and paranormal. I mean, we bonded over watching Supernatural! So books and other media in that realm are always a win. […]
Feature: Stranger Things Psychology: Life Upside Down by Travis Langley There have been a handful of fiction books that bridge Stranger Things TV show to a more in-depth character study, mostly prequels, giving insight into the characters they are on the show. There are show companion guides (those are just […]
It’s Personal: 2023 Reading & Blog Goals New year, new goals! Dive into our goals below and share yours in the comments! Let’s keep each other accountable! Kelly’s Reading Goals I really want to read 100 books this year, but set my goal at 90, because let’s be real these […]
#SBS 2022 Wrap-Up Well in grand 2022 fashion, for the first year in a while, we didn’t even make goals. I shared some reading challenges I was joining for the year on Instagram, and that was about it. Christy made some personal goals, and chose a reading goal number, and […]
Author & Illustrator Interview: Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Bestiary by S.T. Bende, with Art by Iris Compiet I have had the pleasure of knowing S.T. Bende for almost a decade, I was introduced to her bestselling Norse fantasy YA novels, and soon we met at a multi-day author signing convention, and […]
Preparing for Spooky Season with Team BookCrushin We here at BookCrushin are both big fans of reading with the seasons and Spooky Season happens to be our favorite! The multitude of genres and possibilities to read for #SpkySzn makes putting together list of recommendations even more fun. Today we each […]
Feature: Books Unite Us. Honoring Banned Books Week It’s hard to believe it’s been 40 years since Banned Books Week launched. During the Reagan era, of course, due to an increased call for libraries and schools to ban certain titles. It’s disappointing and frustrating that we still experience book bans, […]