Summer Loomis

Jan 2, 2025 | bookriot.com | Summer Loomis

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Recent US election results have brought me to revisit Harry Dunn’s Standing My Ground. If you don’t recognize him, Dunn was one of the police officers who risked his life defending the US Capitol from a violent, armed insurrection on January 6, 2021.

May 10, 2024 | bookriot.com | Makiia Lucier |Summer Loomis

I keep an eye out for Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander authors releasing new titles, and lately, I have seen a lot of especially interesting new and new-to-me releases. In the interest of spreading the love around and getting more adoring fans for these titles, here is a list of some awesome AAPI-authored young adult books publishing in 2024. If the AAPI acronym isn’t one you’re super familiar with, of course, you can guess that it covers a very large portion of the world.

Jan 17, 2024 | bookriot.com | Summer Loomis

Nonfiction has become one of my absolute favorite categories to read in, especially in the last few years, so I am excited to highlight the best nonfiction of 2023. It has been a good year for expanding one’s reading horizons, and like many other readers, I like to review the “best of” lists on an annual basis.

Jan 17, 2024 | flipboard.com | Summer Loomis

How To Get Ahead: Habits All Successful People Have In CommonIf you read a lot of self-help books, which we do, you tend to see patterns emerge – this goes for whether you’re devouring autobiographies of the …

Dec 11, 2023 | bookriot.com | Summer Loomis

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I love self-help, but 2023 was not my year to use that energy at all. In my case, 2023 was solely about recovering from some of life’s tougher blows, and to be clear, that was from life events that blindsided me in 2019 and 2020, my friends. That is how far behind I am in life right now.