Tag Archives: book recommendations

Review: Children of the Depressed by Dr. Shoshana S Bennett

I grew up in a home where one of my parents was depressed. And I will go into my personal analytics another day. For the purposes of this book recommendation, I will disclose that in the twelve years since moving out on my own, I have done A LOT of work on myself to get […]
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What are the best YA books?

When I was a teen, I read pretty much everything in my high school’s library. And I enjoyed most of it. I never really got into the vampire or zombie thing though. Nowadays, I don’t read very much YA at all, but I am interested to know what the stuff I should read is! I […]
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Literature– My Way

I am a contemporary kind of girl. Whether fictional or reality, present day or looking back in time— the style of storytelling or perhaps the lack of stylistic expectation, is what carries me along. It’s been a bit of a slog attempting to find some “classic” literature predating the 20th century that succeeded in captivating […]
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Review: An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

I have an uncle who works with governments in second and third world countries to build systems, policies and help advance their protocols into the new millennium. Right now, I believe he is in Bangladesh and has been for a few years on and off. When I was growing up, his home base was mostly […]
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Review: The Bees by Laline Paull

When I finished reading Laline Paull’s The Bees, I felt the next logical step was to go and learn about the behaviour and lifestyle of honeybees. Who knew I would find just what I wanted to know on the Orkin Pest Control website! I found that while Paull’s invented bees were hyper-advanced in their communication […]
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