Tag: book-reviews
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Book Review: This World We Live In
Book Review: This World We Live In Rating: 3.5 / 5 Stars It wasn’t what I expected. The book starts off echoing the vibe of the first novel, but it slowly cranks up the intensity. As the characters run out of food, you start to genuinely worry about them, watching them scramble for ways to…
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Amour Fati
The world outside is burning, but Addy doesn’t know why. Yes, it’s been taking awhile for me to release something. Life isn’t easy with mental illness and a chronic illness. Plus, life is too dang expensive. It’s hard to get anything done when life is so bleak sometimes. However, I am still writing. My love…
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Book Review: Life As We Knew it.
Book Review: Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. “I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it’s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.” I actually bought the third book in this series first and realized quickly it wasn’t book…
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Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher: A Review
Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher is a witchy, magical retelling of Jane Eyre. It features a gifted healer named Jane Aire who takes a position at Thornfield Hall, a cursed estate with a mysterious and reclusive master, Edward Rochester. Full disclosure: I had no idea this was a retelling of Jane Eyre. I’ve…
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Addy and Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Through the weeds and reeds, past swampy ditches with the small, beady eyes of gators, stood a trailer park beside a murky pond filled with dragonflies and turtles. With salt twisting through the Gulf wind, a young girl’s imagination grew wild in the summer. With her fingertips grazing the soft paper of a new book,…
Coushatta LaRue 