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Favorite Reviews:
I have reviewed many books over the years, and some reviews have been more interesting or fun to write than others. The below list were my favorites to write.
• Ada, or Ardor
• Choose Your Own Autobiography
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• If Not, Winter
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• The Kid Table
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lolita
• The Monk
• The Night Circus
• Oathbringer
• Return of the Native
• Rhythm of War
• S
• Things Fall Apart
• The Unit
• The Woods Are Always WatchingCategories:
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- Africa
- Asia
- atmospheric
- audio
- BBAW
- body image
- Bra Hunt
- callback
- circus horror
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- collection
- comfort
- Cosmere
- cruise
- divinity
- dream-invader
- education
- end of year
- favorite
- fitness
- food
- gender studies
- goals
- Harry Potter
- health
- historical
- house
- humor
- I made a thing.
- joint review
- KonMari
- Latin America
- LGBTQIA
- lists
- memorable
- Middle East
- mini-review
- multi-read
- nonfiction
- photography
- place-character
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- psychology
- quarantine
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Tag Archives: tarot
The Gifts That Bind Us, by Caroline O’Donoghue
After the traumas of spring, life is meant to go on as normal. Except now, Maeve and her friends are filled with burdening magic, stressed by separations and worries of the future, and suspicious of new activity from the extremist … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Prose, Young Adult
Tagged divinity, LGBTQIA, RIP-worthy, speculative, tarot
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I feel gross. I feel dirty. I don’t want to be seen. Shame. Ugly thoughts. Loathing and disgust. I hurt. I am angry. I am too overwhelmed to be angry. I sink into depression. I cannot move. I cannot act. … Continue reading
All Our Hidden Gifts, by Caroline O’Donoghue
Maeve is a bit of an outcast at school, trying desperately to fit in by any means necessary, even if that means cutting out older, un-cool friends like Lily. Her most recent stunt comes when she discovers a contraband pack … Continue reading
Posted in 2021, Prose, Young Adult
Tagged divinity, LGBTQIA, RIP-worthy, speculative, tarot
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Quarantine Diaries – Weeks 55 and 56
Still sitting in equilibrium here in SA. There’s been little news or developments, and we’re in a race against this disease with vaccines now… Week 55 – March 26 to April 1 205,777 cases, 3,152 deaths, 190 seven-day rolling average … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – Searching for Clarity
CW: mental health, anxiety, disordered thinking/behavior. There is something I’ve needed to do for a very long time, but haven’t yet been able to do. I need to, and I even want to, yet every day I put it off … Continue reading
Wellness Wednesday – Grief and Identity
Most people have heard of the five stages of grief, and by now many people know that these stages aren’t exclusive, linear, or clear-cut. I, for example, never really do much with the bargaining stage, but bounce between denial and … Continue reading
The Death of Mrs. Westaway, by Ruth Ware
Hal is struggling to get by in the years after her mother’s death, reading tarot cards for tourists and dodging loan sharks who want their money repaid. When the notice of her supposed grandmother’s death arrives, with promises of potential … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – Another House Update
When your house is ripped apart and coming back together slowly, your world eventually sharpens until that work, the last stages of it, becomes all you can do and think about. You just want it to be over and done … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – Fight, Flight, Freeze
Not long after my sixteenth birthday, my mom moved us to a new house across town. My sophomore year wasn’t quite over, and it was a big upheaval that I dreaded. Part of moving in was to bring all our … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – Putting 2016 Behind Me
Let me start my first post of the year by joining my voice to the many shouts of HURRAH that 2016 is finally over. Woohoo! Yay for the first day of the new year! Have you heard the superstition that … Continue reading