Category: Books/Reading/Art
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Adventures in Reading: 2024 Review
Changing my approach to reading was instrumental in me getting back on track with my reading goals this year; choosing books that were vetted by content creators I trust, friends and my TBR list really solidified it as a great reading year.
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From Voracious to Sated: Reading with and in spite of depression.
All relationships change as we grow; we either hold ourselves open to that possibility or we contend against inevitable stagnancy. I was struggling with reading the way I used to; reading every single book in existence wasn’t sustainable. Finishing each book I started, when I started it didn’t always fit. Being hard on myself for…
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Lovecraft Country
Its rare that first episodes draw me in as aggressively as this past Sunday’s Lovecraft Country. I immediately purchased the book after watching the pilot.
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BC // Day 3: Love is Worship
Love is the ultimate worship – first, the discovery of by seeing others, the finding of self through others, the exaltation of self as the greatest love and then the actual real work; loving outside of yourself.
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BC // Day 2: The Princess and the Pea
We are on day two of the Blogging Challenge and I decided on #11: Your favorite childhood book. It’s hard for me to choose just one book so I’ll go with the title that actually is categorized as a kids’ book; The Princess and the Pea. I remember it being the only one that I…
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Bone – Yrsa Daley-Ward
Emergency Warning I fell out of love with poetry for a while but was happy to rediscover it again in the say two years. Yrsa Daley Ward made me feel like she was writing for me and the women I knew so intimately through nothing but heart ache. I encourage you to explore yourself…
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New Year, New Books
It took me a few days but I finally got the first few books I’m going to be reading this year: Book One: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange Book Two: The Indigenous People of the Caribbean by Samuel L. Wilson I look forward to new explorations, amazing characters and moving prose in this…
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Strand Book Store – They get me
Picked up these two magnets today on my lunch break run along with The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides They have t-shirts as well. Clearly they give no damns about my budget.
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Now Reading: I, Slutbot
I walked by this book while on one of my lunch time B&N and I couldn’t help but do a double take. The cover is beautiful and eye catching and a quick read of the back made me confident that it would be a great choice to add to my library. The name of the…
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The Color Complex
Snapped while reading. I really always have a problem with the insistence that Jesus would have been white but that’s not my battle to fight. The Color Complex: Kathy Russel, Midge Wilson and Ronald Hall. This is my second read through and it was less devastating this time around. I could take the emotion out…
Lux 