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The Book Review: “Furiously Happy” by Jenny Lawson

“If you put a bunch of chameleons on top of a bunch of chameleons on top of a bowl of Skittles what would happen? Is that science? Because if so, I finally get why people want to do science.” ― Jenny Lawson This book I…

The Book Review: “Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe” by Max Lucado

  Advance Reading Copy Disclosure: Thanks to Booklookbloggers and the publisher for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review. I have not read anything else by Lucado before but what drew my attention to this book the most was the…

The Book Review: “The Art of Spiritual Healing” by Keith Sherwood

Advance Reading Copy Disclosure: Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review. I have not read anything else by Keith Sherwood before but what drew my attention to this book the most was the…

The Book Review: “If I Fall, If I Die” by Michael Christie

Advance Reading Copy Disclosure: Thanks to Blogging for Books and the publisher for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review. I have not read anything else by Christie before but what drew my attention to this book the most was…

The Book Review: “Street God” by Dimas Salaberrios

  “One day Tank and I became so desperate to get high that we robbed his next-door neighbor’s house. Talk about risky! I didn’t care where I sold, as long as I had enough money to replenish my supply and enough crack for myself to…

The Book Review: “All the light we cannot see” by Anthony Doerr

“He sweeps her hair back from her ears; he swings her above his head. he says she is his émerveillement. He says he will never leave her, not in a million years.”  ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See This was a book…

The Book Review: “American Housewife” by Helen Ellis.

Advance Reading Copy Disclosure:  Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review. I have not read anything else by Ellis before but what drew my attention to this book the most was the cover. This…

The Book Review: “Just Kids” by Patti Smith

“There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view grainy and immoble. We gathered our colored pencils and sheets of paper and drew like wild, feral children into the…

The Book Review: “Dry” by Augusten Burroughs.

“So that’s what I’m here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven’t felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and…

Book Review: “The Colossus of New York” by Colson Whitehead.

“No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey’s, or That used used to be the Tic Toc Lounge. You start building your private New York the first time you lay…



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