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Samantha Gualito

Samantha works in the digital textbook world by day and lives in the book world by night and on weekends. She blogs at Book Beat and lives in Chicago. Follow her on Twitter @bookbeatblog.

On Reading in My Native Language

I learned to speak in one language (Spanish) and learned to read in another (English). This duality has been a ...

Genre Kryptonite: Books about Immigrants

August 2015 marks 20 years that my parents and I have been living in the United States. We came to ...

The Magic of Being a Bookish Older Sister

My little brother will be going to college this year, and I cannot wait for him to start. He’s planning ...

Reading Pathways: Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros is probably a name you’ve heard before, but it’s not a name that comes up in literary circles ...

I Was a Competitive Reader

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...

I Was a Competitive Reader

Samantha works in the digital textbook world by day, and lives in the book world by night and on weekends. ...

TBR Lists Are Too Much Commitment

Samantha works in the digital textbook world by day, and lives in the book world by night and on weekends. ...