Tag: writer
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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 girlβs imagination grew wild in the summer. With her fingertips grazing the soft paper of a new book,…
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What Chrysanthemum Taught Me About Being Different

Chrysanthemum I was only a couple of months old when Chrysanthemum came out. Just a bald, cranky baby who didnβt even know she existed. As I grew and learned my name, I realized it was different. So different that sometimes I wondered whether my parents even liked me when they chose it. As a kid,…







