Cassandra Neace is a high school English teacher in Houston. When she's not in the classroom, she reads books and writes about them. She prides herself on her ability to recommend a book for most any occasion. She can be found on Instagram @read_write_make
On my evening commute through the city of Houston, I pass a billboard that looks a lot like this: In ...
I’m always surprised to hear someone or to read a comment that says that books and politics should never mix. ...
One of the most frequent concerns that I hear from people who haven’t given audiobooks a try is the time ...
The theme for this group of great listens is coping with chaos. In one case, it is the chaos associated ...
It’s not unusual to find a contemporary author that includes recipes within a book’s pages (see Sarah McCoy’s The Baker’s ...
If one of your readerly resolutions this year is to listen to more audiobooks, we’re here to help. Periodically, we’ll ...
While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...
I was in high school when I first read “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. I found it in an old ...
I’d been hearing behind-the-scene’s buzz about Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven for a while before I finally picked it up. ...
Several months ago, a copy of Robot Uprisings, an anthology of stories about…well, robots rising up against their human overlords, ...