Blizzard Reading Wrap-Up

Posted March 9, 2026 by Emmy Mahoney

Hey everyone! We are a few weeks out from the blizzard of February 2026, and my personal highlight of this major storm is that it rescued me from my reading slump. The blizzard had knocked my power for five days, and for five days, I did nothing but read. Here is my blizzard reading recap. 

Over the course of the outage, I read books both required for my classes and for fun. For my class–Gender, Sexuality, and the Carceral State–I finished two books. The first was Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 by Mary E. Odem and the second was From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutitionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945 by Anne E. Parsons. For another one of my courses–Reader’s Advisory & Popular Cultural Trends–I read Mia Sosa’s The Wedding Crasher. With no distractions, it was very easy to finish these books.

In terms of reading books for enjoyment, I was able to finish two books: Strange Pictures by Uketsu and The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale. I was also able to start two other books, including A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe. 

Although not having power for several days was not ideal, the silver lining of this storm is that I was able to get back into my passion for reading. I do not remember the last time I read so many books in such a short period of time. I hope you all have similar successes with coming out of your reading slumps!