Tag: Book Review
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October Reading Wrap Up
Here’s all the books I read in October! It was a bit of a slower reading month. I am learning German, and am trying to listen to the language as much as I can, so most of my audiobook time was taken over by the Easy German podcast, which I highly recommend. I think I…
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September Reading Wrap Up
Below are all the books I read in September. Lots of great reads and a lot that I would recommend. If you’re interested in purchasing any, you can click on my Bookshop affiliate link to support this blog. Enjoy and I hope you find something new to try!
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The Upstairs House // Julia Fine
Have you ever read the synopsis for a book and thought “This book was written for me“? That’s how I felt when I heard about The Upstairs House by Julia Fine which comes out February 23, 2021. “A provocative meditation on new motherhood—Shirley Jackson meets The Awakening—in which a postpartum woman’s psychological unraveling becomes intertwined with…
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Book Review: The Book of Longings // Sue Monk Kidd
Honestly this book really got to me. As someone who grew up in the church, went to a Catholic school during my formative years, and continued to go to church all the way up through my junior year of college, I couldn’t help but relate this book to my own feelings about Jesus and religion.…
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Book Review: Writers and Lovers by Lily King
*This review contains ~light~ spoilers. “Now I understand it’s how boys are raised to think, how they are lured into adulthood. I’ve met ambitious women, driven women, but no woman has ever told me that greatness was her destiny” (King 232). I didn’t know what to think about this book before I read it. Truly…
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Book Review: A Nearly Normal Family // M.T. Edvarsson
I typically don’t seek out books that are thriller-esque or murder mystery-y, however there was something about the Book of the Month review of Edvarsson’s book that caught my eye. I’m not even sure what Scandinavian-noir means, but I think my years of pretending to know what things are for the sake of impressing people are clearly…
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