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Katie Hires

Katie Hires

Katie Hires is a book lover, pop culture nerd, and graphic designer. When she's not researching Game of Thrones fan theories, she's either reading or at home making pasta.

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Fiction

Presenting: The Real Housewives of Classic Literature!

Everyone loves The Real Housewives! OK, to be fair, not everyone is aware of how magical the Real Housewives can be on occasion. While a lot of people find them irritating, where else are you going to find crazy moments where weird rich women debase themselves like insane animals in…
Katie Hires
October 12, 2016
Fiction

The Books on Bridget Jones’s Imaginary Bookshelf

It’s hard to fully encapsulate the amazingness that is Bridget Jones’s Diary. Helen Fielding’s book is fantastic, and the movie is even better. (Seriously, come at me). Between the most relatable female heroine ever, the objectively least-crazy-most-sensible-while-still-being-attractive leading man, and quite possibly the greatest, least graceful fight scene in movie…
Katie Hires
September 16, 2016
Miscellany

A Drug Cartel-fueled Book List for All Narcos Lovers!

If you haven’t watched Netflix’s Narcos yet, you need to rectify that situation immediately. It follows the story of history’s most infamous drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, whose Colombian cocaine empire made him one of the richest men in the world in the early 1990s. Season 1, which premiered in 2015,…
Katie Hires
September 2, 2016
Fiction

Summer Reading: Books for Firefly Evenings

It is a truth universally acknowledged that fireflies are one of the best things about summer. They’re the beautiful glowy harbingers of lazy evenings that you stay outside to watch, even if the mosquitoes are getting at your ankles.    So, as summer dwindles down, let’s take a moment to…
Katie Hires
August 19, 2016
Fiction

Review: Dive Into Psychological Mystery on Peregrine Island

Tolstoy said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Diane B. Saxton, the debut author of Peregrine Island (She Writes Press, August 2, 2016), would probably agree. Her new novel dives into a memorably dysfunctional family, the Peregrines, living on the titular private island on Long Island…
Katie Hires
August 9, 2016
Fiction

Chill Out: 5 Books to Distract You from Your Sunburn

As a ginger, I happen to be aware of one of life’s fundamental truths: sunburn seriously sucks. From hot discomfort to peeling like a molting snake in the rain forest, having sunburn is frightfully unpleasant. However, in addition to light exfoliation with a warm wash cloth and gentle soap, I…
Katie Hires
July 21, 2016
Nonfiction

A Book Worth Savoring: Isabel Vincent’s Dinner with Edward

Some books challenge you. Others feel like cozy sweaters. It’s rare to find a book that does both. And that's exactly what Isabel Vincent’s latest memoir, Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship (Algonquin Books, May 24, 2016) manages to do, by striking the perfect balance between being bittersweet and making you so damn…
Katie Hires
May 23, 2016