Tag: reading
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The Boy Who Talked to Dogs: A Memoir

The Boy Who Talked to Dogs: A Memoir An unexpectedly enjoyable adventure. I thought this would read differently, but it plays out like an actual story, which isn’t a bad thing at all. Honestly, I had no idea what to expect. I didn’t really read the blurb and went in thinking it was about someone…
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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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The Deliverance: Movie Review.

Review: The DeliveranceThe Deliverance is inspired by the alleged demonic haunting of Latoya Ammons and her family in Gary, Indiana, back in 2011. After moving into a rental home, the family reported swarms of flies, strange voices, and physical possessions. This eventually led to multiple exorcisms performed on Ammons and her children. The case was…
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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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Gut by Giulia Enders

Book review on Gut by Giulia Enders. Did you know that around the beginning of the twentieth century, dermatologists in Germany began calling for people to bathe at least once a week to stay clean and help lower sickness? And yet, it took until the 1950s for families to even start bathing weekly, because they…
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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,…



