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Love and Ruin by Paula McLain
Martha Gellhorn is my role model. Just a heads up as we move forward. She is my life, well, hopefully one day my life is like hers, to put it mildly. But I promise, more or less, that I will stick to the depiction Paula McLain illustrates between the 400 pages of Love and Ruin. To […]
MoreDaughter of the House by Rosie Thomas
One word: unexpected. In every what way, unexpected. It took an unexpected amount of time for me to finish this book: fault of a rigorous school semester. It took unexpected turns in unexpected places: although followed the pattern at other points. But the end, the end still has me thinking. I finished the last fifty […]
MoreHow To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
Before talking more about this book, I need to confess something. It’s been a few months since I read it, August to be exact. I’ve just kinda let the story meld around in my brain through the fall, it’s a complex question to say the least. How to be a woman is the question of […]
MoreEuphoria by Lily King
So, if you’ve heard of this book at all, you’ve probably heard the rave reviews. And, I got to be honest here, I completely agree. This book is incredible. Honestly, the best book I’ve read in a really long time. I guess I should explain that a little bit. When I was in High School, […]
MoreLongbourn by Jo Baker
I am going to preface this review with the clear understanding that the following is my opinion, and my opinion only. Take it as you see fit, ignore it at your own pleasure. The New York Times, The Washington Post, even NPR acclaim this book. I, on the very other hand, criticize this book. To […]
MoreSex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti
If there was one book I could have the entire male population read, it would be Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti. It is honest, undramatic, unromantic, and blameless about the objectification of females. As much as we want to bring our heads below our faces, cover the catcalling with our headphones, and clutch […]
MoreBorn A Crime by Trevor Noah
The South African apartheid government was a brutal and legal form of racism that reigned over the nation for fifty years. However, racism and hierarchical classification systems had existed from the first conquest in the fifteen hundreds. The confusing and complicated history of South Africa, is, for the most part unknown by many present-day students. […]
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