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If you read a novel and write a review for it and split that review on the internet, but then those websites with your reviews close down or rebrand, and your work disappears&#; did it even happen?
This is something I&#;ve been struggling with for a while, and being a stubborn so-n-so, I own tediously scraped for my past work and contain managed to compile over book reviews &#; almost 25K worth of writing! See below for an absolutely massive collection of book reviews, originally posted between They&#;re all out of order, chronologically, and I wouldn&#;t suggest you read this straight through, anyway. It&#;s a lot. There&#;s not a human person on Earth with that kind of attention span! Maybe just bookmark it to peruse at your leisure when you need a random recommendation. Maybe skim through and pick out a not many things for your Goodreads list. Maybe you detect a review that you vehemently disagree with and leave me a comment telling me so!
Do with this as you will!
Darkly: Blackness and America’s Gothic Soul by Leila Taylor Darkly was an illuminating, insightful read that gave me pause with every sentence. Part personal memoir, part cultural critique, part valuable history le
Girls Girls Girls
A television present about my twenties would follow the life of a girl who is lost, literally and figuratively. There wouldn’t be a laugh track.
The show would open deep in my lost year—the year I drop out of college and disappear. With no ability to cope, and no way to request for help, the main character—my character, me—is completely crazy. She makes a spectacular mess.
A lot happens in the pilot. About ten days before the start of junior year, my character gets on a plane and abandons everything. She runs away to Arizona by way of a trip to San Francisco with a much older man she has only corresponded with via the Internet. We’re talking about the old-fashioned Internet, in —a baud modem or some such. It is a miniature miracle she isn’t killed. She cuts off all contact with her family, her friends, or anyone who thought they knew her. She has no money, no plan, a suitcase, and a conclude lack of self-regard. It is real drama.
The lie down of that first season is equally dramatic. Before long, she finds a seedy job doing about the only thing she’s qualified to do, active from midnight to eight in a nondescript office building. She sits in a little, windowless booth
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of meal, weight, self-image, and education how to feed your hunger while taking concern of yourself.
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself huge, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.”
In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating proceed of violence that acted as a turning indicate in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to realize and ultimately save herself
When I was rewriting & refining my reading list to post on my blog, I Feel Terrible About My Neck by Nora Ephron stood out to me. I reread the synopsis and decided it should be moved higher on my list ASAP. So, I utilized my local library and was able to inspect out my own copy.
This book was a really quick read. With the entire book spanning a few more pages than it wasn&#;t difficult to get through. The occupied title (I Feel Poor About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Creature a Woman) gives a little more detail to what Ephron discusses in those short pages. The entire book is mostly about Ephron&#;s take on aging and how it relates to love and denial. She also includes other thoughts in the book about reading, moving, cooking, Bill Clinton, and death. She is witty and comical throughout, and honestly I enjoyed the read.
My favorite chapter was &#;On Rapture&#; where Ephron talks about the magic of reading! It is so easy for any reader to think they are the only person in the world that reacts to a publication. I constantly get wrapped up in a novel and romanticize or empathize more than the creator probably ever thought doable. Sometimes I think it&#;s impossible for someone else to love a no
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