About Me
Christina Peng, 19
Christina is a second-year student at Brown University who studies English and Computer Science. While she’s not busy penning stories, she loves playing chess, consuming all kinds of literature, and investigating any topic that piques her curiosity. Lately, she’s been into MBTI personality types, The Settlers of Catan, and morally gray book characters.
Book Reviews
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | Book Review
October 23, 2021
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The opening line to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is one of the best-known l...Read More
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini | Book Review
September 24, 2021
Set in 1970s Afghanistan, The Kite Runner tells the extraordinary friendship between Amir and Hassan, a wealthy Afghan boy and his Hazara servant. Though they weren’t born to the same mother, they had...Read More
A Crystal of Time by Soman Chainani | Book Review
June 1, 2021
Rhian, a false king, has seized Camelot’s throne—sentencing Tedros, the true king, to death. Rhian, a false king claiming to be the Lion who’d driven out the villainous Snake, had only been plotting w...Read More
Publications
Writer, The College Hill Independent (2023)
Featured Poet, The Rising Phoenix Review (2021)
Writer, Los Angeles Times HS Insider (2019-2020)
Blog
My Experience as an Online Therapist (Quarantine)
April 20, 2020
Since being stuck in quarantine, I could not survive a day without my laptop, my laptop charger, or my books. Now that I finished reading all the books I stashed for Spring Break, my essentials are re...Read More
Where are Mothers in Children’s Books?
April 12, 2019
Mum flips the crisp pages of my favorite book, her eyes squinting in the moonlight. I ride the pegasus of her voice, swooping into one story, then another. A lucid smile crawls up my face as my heavy ...Read More
Trying Topiary | Floral Teddy Bear
December 9, 2018
After spending three hours a day writing about the ameliorating effects of topiary, I decided it was high time to experience this magic by making a topiary bear of my own! Tag along with me!Read More
