I miss quarantine. Okay, not really. I don’t miss most of it. But I do miss the space it created in my life for reading. Last year, in 2020, I read 48 books outside of school – my most ever in one year. I felt like the coolest little bookworm in the world! I miss those ethereal mornings my brother …

For me, the American Dream looks like a library with a rolling ladder. That’s when I’ll know I’ve made it – that’s when the most central of my dreams will have come true.

I have been lucky enough to spend a lot of time in New York City throughout my life, and some of my favorite memories with my mother are the ones that we have made in Manhattan. I remember small glimpses of those trips, and they fill me with nostalgia. 

If you managed to click on the title (and have made it thus far in this sentence), then you’re halfway there! 

Because if we’re being honest, there is only one list that matters in the world of book publishing, book selling, and book reading.