Chelsea Ciccone

Middle East Meets West With Ambitious Woman’s Cross-Cultural Upbringing in Saudi Arabia

Jasmin Faulk-Dickerson spent much of her young life with a foot in two different worlds, belonging to one culture that restricted her individual freedoms and to another that promised more to its women than marriage, children and subservience to men, including their own sons. A strong-willed, sensitive and highly creative…

Chelsea CicconeMay 24, 2022

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6 Utterly Suspenseful Tales Written by and Starring Women

Anticipation is a delightful sort of agony, and within the realms of fiction, it’s what keeps us turning pages. In romance novels, it’s the clear tension between characters, the will-they-won’t-they of it all. In fantasy and science fiction, it’s the adventure, knowing something wonderous and impossible awaits us as we…

Chelsea CicconeMay 2, 2022

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Can’t Put This Clock in a Box: 5 Time-Manipulating and Genre-Shattering Reads

One of the decidedly fraught areas of fiction is genre. Very rarely is a book so limited in its story or its characters that it can neatly fit into the confines of any one category, and yet, that’s one of the first things prospective readers want to identify. So, we…

Chelsea CicconeApril 18, 2022

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6 Autistic Authors You Should Be Reading

April is Autism Acceptance Month, and though I wish it went without saying, the first voices anyone should seek out when learning about autistic folks, or any marginalized group for that matter, are voices that come from within that very community. If you're unsure how to support someone, ask them!…

Chelsea CicconeApril 8, 2022

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Move Over, John le Carré! 5 New Masterful Tales of Cold War Espionage

It feels impossible to discuss Cold War fiction, or the whole of espionage fiction for that matter, without mentioning the master of the spy novel himself, John le Carré. As The New York Times notes in the late novelist’s obituary, his “exquisitely nuanced, intricately plotted Cold War thrillers elevated the…

Chelsea CicconeApril 5, 2022

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Laugh at Yourself, Love Yourself: 6 Humorous and Heartfelt Guides to Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness

Sometimes, well, maybe more than just sometimes, we’re our own worst enemy. On the ever-winding road to finding happiness or love or fulfillment, it’s often self-criticism, bad habits and insecurities that we trip over. We just can’t seem to get out of our own way, can we? They say admitting…

Chelsea CicconeMarch 29, 2022

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What Lurks Beyond: 6 Entrancing and Horrific Tales of Otherworldly Foes

I often think about this one episode of the 1998 TV series Charmed, “Once Upon a Time” (2000), in which the Halliwell sisters must protect a young girl who is being stalked by dark, mythical creatures that lurk in the “in-betweens,” points of time and space at which two worlds…

Chelsea CicconeMarch 22, 2022

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5 Unconventional Families Searching for Their Place the Universe

To say families come in all shapes and sizes feels a bit cliché, even if it is true. Of course, if some of said family members happen to be aliens … well, I suppose that old cliché takes on new meaning, doesn’t it? Reptilian scales, wings, horns and many, many…

Chelsea CicconeMarch 8, 2022

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Open the Door to V.E. Schwab’s “Gallant,” an Eerily Magical Homecoming

Olivia Prior knows hardly anything about her family or where she came from. Raised at the Merilance School for Independent Girls, the only link she has to anyone outside its walls is her mother’s journal — a slim, worn volume that offers very few answers as she watches her mother’s…

Chelsea CicconeMarch 2, 2022

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Canine Chronicles: 5 Novels From a Dog’s Perspective

I once wrote my own eulogy from my dog’s perspective. Totally weird, I know, but it was an assignment for a Public Speaking course. I figured using my dog’s voice would somehow make the whole endeavor feel less morbid. Besides, haven’t you ever wondered what your dog is thinking? How…

Chelsea CicconeFebruary 22, 2022

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Disappeared But Not Forgotten: 6 Novels Touched by Argentina’s Dirty War

I first learned of the Dirty War in college. My minor advisor was teaching a Latin American History course and was enthusiastic about having an English major/Gender Studies minor infiltrate the ranks of students who haunted the History department. There’s something to said for perspective and for context, I suppose,…

Chelsea CicconeFebruary 17, 2022

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Agents of Israel: 6 Thrillers Featuring Israeli Intelligence and Special Forces

May I interest you in a bit of spycraft? Or, perhaps, a few covert military operations? How about an assassin or two? I’ll admit, the allure of espionage and black ops missions is difficult to ignore in fiction. First, there’s the combat, those fast-paced sequences that get your pulse pounding.…

Chelsea CicconeJanuary 27, 2022

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1960s Historical Fiction Holds Up a Mirror to Current Reproductive Health Challenges

“The words ‘knocked up’ … signified disaster on a mythic scale, the termination of respectability, the cancellation of any claim to future success and happiness, an irreversible and public shaming.” While that phrase still carries a certain amount of stigma in 2022, particularly for the young and unwed, it doesn’t…

Chelsea CicconeJanuary 6, 2022

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The Capital of Crime: 7 Thrillers Set in Washington, D.C.

New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles play host to more than their fair share of crime novels. The last six months alone gave life to major releases such as Pulitzer Prize-winner Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle (review), Emmy Award-winner Tamron Hall’s As the Wicked Watch (review) and #1 NYT bestselling…

Chelsea CicconeDecember 21, 2021

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Escape From Communist Bulgaria Inspires Others to Reach for a Better Life

“I am not a writer,” confesses Antonina Duridanova in the first line of her memoir, but during her retirement party, she promised a friend that she’d write a book about her life. New Beginnings: From Behind the Iron Curtain to America (Fulton Books) proves that the author keeps her promises. …

Chelsea CicconeDecember 15, 2021

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7 Magically Mysterious Adventure Series for Middle-Grade Readers

Once upon a time, I worked at a bookstore. When I started, it was no mystery that a huge part of the job would be recommending books to customers, but what did surprise me was that the struggles of our parent clientele almost always fell into one of two categories:…

Chelsea CicconeDecember 7, 2021

Chelsea Ciccone

Middle East Meets West With Ambitious Woman’s Cross-Cultural Upbringing in Saudi Arabia

6 Utterly Suspenseful Tales Written by and Starring Women

Can’t Put This Clock in a Box: 5 Time-Manipulating and Genre-Shattering Reads

6 Autistic Authors You Should Be Reading

Move Over, John le Carré! 5 New Masterful Tales of Cold War Espionage

Laugh at Yourself, Love Yourself: 6 Humorous and Heartfelt Guides to Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness

What Lurks Beyond: 6 Entrancing and Horrific Tales of Otherworldly Foes

5 Unconventional Families Searching for Their Place the Universe

Open the Door to V.E. Schwab’s “Gallant,” an Eerily Magical Homecoming

Canine Chronicles: 5 Novels From a Dog’s Perspective

Disappeared But Not Forgotten: 6 Novels Touched by Argentina’s Dirty War

Agents of Israel: 6 Thrillers Featuring Israeli Intelligence and Special Forces

1960s Historical Fiction Holds Up a Mirror to Current Reproductive Health Challenges

The Capital of Crime: 7 Thrillers Set in Washington, D.C.

Escape From Communist Bulgaria Inspires Others to Reach for a Better Life

7 Magically Mysterious Adventure Series for Middle-Grade Readers

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