Tag: reading
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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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A Psalm for the Wild-Built Review!
My first thoughts: Robot wars and tea? Not quite… I started this book because my family decided to start a little book club. “Why not!” I thought. We chose short novels to make things manageable, and the first pick was A Psalm for the Wild-Built. I’d seen the cover before but never really looked into…
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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,…
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I am still writing
Hello! Just wanted to give a quick update that I am still here. And I am still writing. This year’s just been crappy and I know a lot of people can relate to that. And some new health issues decided to pop up because that’s lovely. So I’ve been slow at editing my books but…
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The Dawn of Oblivion
The planet is dead. Can she escape being next? “Clinging to the last vestige of a world in ruins, Amaya must fight tooth and nail to carve out a place for herself and save the people she loves. Faced with rival survivors, bloodthirsty monsters, and the ever-looming threat of starvation, the wasteland will push Amaya…
Coushatta LaRue 