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Happy New Year! Lit Shark’s Best Of 2024 Anthology Is Out Now!
Happy Friday, readers, writers, and shark fans! Happy, Happy New Year to each of you! I hope you're having a wonderful week! I've been enjoying my first full week off of work in the past nine years, and I had a wonderful time disconnecting from my workspace, making...
Celebrate Tonight’s Full Moon & Reflect on September’s Super Moon with the NBCB!
In light of tonight's full moon, the "Cold Moon" and the last full moon of 2024, we're excited to introduce our newest contributor, Pamela Rafalow Grossman, and to hear an amazing story about last September's Super Moon, which she experienced with the North Brooklyn...
Great White Sharks & Black Friday Weekends!
Happy Friday, readers, writers, and shark fans! To those who celebrate, I hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving! And if you're like us and doing something this weekend instead, we hope you have a wonderful time. With Thanksgiving also comes historically the biggest...
Latest Book Reviews
Learn How the Mind Works to Slow Down Time, Enjoy Life, and Make the Most Out of the Hours in Your Day with Jean Paul Zogby
Slow Down Time: The Power of Time Perception by Jean Paul Zogby looks at how we see and process time. As Einstein said “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours....
What Makes a Villain? A Review of ‘Verity’ by Colleen Hoover
This review contains spoilers of Verity by Colleen Hoover. Content Warning: Abuse, Death, Mental Health, Violence, and Sexual Assault Exploring Character Intent and Actions Many books craft a story with a clear villain and a hero, providing the reader with a...
Make a Joyful Life in 30 Days with ‘The Joy Plan’ by Kaia Roman
The Joy Plan by Kaia Roman outlines a 30-day experiment where the author concentrates solely on joy, quitting complaining, and stopping worrying! She puts the results of the experiment into this book. It’s easy to read, fun, joyful—and super inspiring. The book starts...
Balancing Rejection, Acceptance, Grief, and Groceries: A Review of Michelle Zauner’s ‘Crying in H Mart’
Content Warning: Death, Depression, Abortion, Cancer. Death comes in many forms, whether it's the loss of a pet, a family member, a friend, or an acquaintance. For many, this loss propels those affected into periods of self-reflection as they do their best to...
Make a Joyful Life in 30 Days with ‘The Joy Plan’ by Kaia Roman
The Joy Plan by Kaia Roman outlines a 30-day experiment where the author concentrates solely on joy, quitting complaining, and stopping worrying! She puts the results of the experiment into this book. It’s easy to read, fun, joyful—and super inspiring. The book starts...
Congratulations to Han Kang for Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature!
Happy Friday, readers, writers, and shark fans! We're very excited to share that the results are in for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the winner is none other than the incredible Human Acts author, Han Kang. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 is awarded...
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Creative Highlight: “Listing”
Happy Wednesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! In response to our "We're Making a List" writing prompt, Julie A. Dickson wrote this wonderful poem, "Listing," which also went on to appear in Issue 1 of Lit Shark Magazine. Here is Julie's poem, recreated as a...
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Latest Author Interviews
Dickinson & One-Thousand Rages: An Interview with ‘Armed to the Teeth’ Poet, Ellen Hirning Schmidt
Happy Thursday, readers, writers, and shark fans! We love celebrating our Lit Shark community here, so we are excited today to share Ellen Hirning Schmidt's latest poetry collection, Armed to the Teeth. Ellen graced us with her presence in Issue 2 of Lit Shark...
This Charming Equestrian Thriller Has Surprises at Every Turn, Even for the Author
How many lives can one woman save in one romantic equestrian thriller? Well, Betty Briggs pushes the envelope in her novel, Pressure Point, in which Stephanie receives a letter from her ultimate nemesis, who mocks her with the kidnapping of her future adoptive...
Anne Hathaway Fulfills the Boy Band Fantasy of Our Dreams in ‘The Idea of You’
Happy World Book Day, readers, writers, and shark fans! To celebrate, we're sharing a fun book that will be available to watch early this May. Our Editor-in-Chief was invited to attend an early viewing event of the film adaptation of Robinne Lee's 2017 romantic...
The Game of 2,000 Words & Other Tips from R.L. Stine
Happy Tuesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! We love Motivation Mondays and Tuesday Tips around here, so today, we thought we'd share an interesting series of tips from Goosebumps YA horror author R.L. Stine. We recently sat in on an interview between some of the...
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Happy New Year! Lit Shark’s Best Of 2024 Anthology Is Out Now!
Happy Friday, readers, writers, and shark fans! Happy, Happy New Year to each of you! I hope you're having a wonderful week! I've been enjoying my first full week off of work in the past nine years, and I had a wonderful time disconnecting from my workspace, making...
Celebrate Tonight’s Full Moon & Reflect on September’s Super Moon with the NBCB!
In light of tonight's full moon, the "Cold Moon" and the last full moon of 2024, we're excited to introduce our newest contributor, Pamela Rafalow Grossman, and to hear an amazing story about last September's Super Moon, which she experienced with the North Brooklyn...
Great White Sharks & Black Friday Weekends!
Happy Friday, readers, writers, and shark fans! To those who celebrate, I hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving! And if you're like us and doing something this weekend instead, we hope you have a wonderful time. With Thanksgiving also comes historically the biggest...
Announcing: Lit Shark Magazine’s November Poem of the Month!
Happy Thursday, readers, writers, and shark fans! And Happy Thanksgiving to our US community members! We hope you're having a wonderful week. We want to say Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate, safe travels, and also happy decorating and happy shopping...
Announcing: Lit Shark Magazine’s October Poem of the Month!
Happy Thursday, readers, writers, and shark fans! And Happy Thanksgiving to our US community members! We hope you're having a wonderful week. We want to say Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate, safe travels, and also happy decorating and happy shopping...
10 Top Titles
Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh
Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh Harper Muse: January 9, 2024, 352 pages ISBN-13: 978-1400233946 "The Titanic was only the beginning. What she survived has become legend. "Violet Jessop is Miss Unsinkable. "After her mother becomes too ill to work, the responsibility to...
Devotions by Mary Oliver
Devotions: Selected Poems by Mary Oliver Penguin Books: November 10, 2020, 480 pages ISBN-13: 978-0399563263 "A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club" “No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much...
Life on the Rocks by Juli Berwald
Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs by Juli Berwald Riverhead Books: April 4, 2023, 352 pages ISBN-13: 978-0593087312 "NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND BOOKLIST" "The story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why it matters...
Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Little, Brown Spark: April 4, 2023, 240 pages ISBN-13: 978-0316426497 "Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place where science and spirit meet" - Robin Wall Kimmerer "In...
Windfall by Erika Bolstad
Windfall by Erika Bolstad Sourcebooks: January 17, 2023, 320 pages ISBN-13: 978-1728246932 "At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband...
Consumed by Aja Barber
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber Balance Books: October 5, 2021, 304 pages ISBN-13: 978-1538709849 "A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we...
Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Back Bay Books: April 21, 2011, 257 pages ISBN-13: 978-0316019118 "There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity...
Silent Came the Monster by Amy Hill Hearth
NOTE: We've included this book because it's an incredibly interesting read, but DO NOT let the title tell you everything. There is so much more to this book than its title and subtitle. We're here to end the stigma around sharks, not to perpetuate it, and despite its...
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Penguin Books: May 7, 2019, 368 pages ISBN-13: 978-0735224315 “Witty, wise, and tender. It's a marvel.” — Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning “To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s a...
Santa Shark: A Great White Christmas by Mike Lowery
Santa Shark: A Great White Christmas by Mike Lowery Orchard Books: October 3, 2023, 32 pages ISBN-13: 978-1338803952 "Here's Santa as you've never seen him before -- get ready for a hilariously, fintastic underwater holiday story, from New York Times bestselling...