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I’ll Look So Hot in a Coffin

🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 For anyone who has ever considered their body, and judged it not “good”, without really stopping to wonder — Not good for what? Or whom? — this memoir, written by a woman who has explored that question, painfully and from birth, will definitely set your head spinning. Diagnosed with…

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All the Colors of the Dark

🌟🌟🌟💫 A book that has been incredibly well-reviewed, and for this reader, unfortunately, fell more than a little flat. A sweeping, ambitious story, this tale begins with the friendship between Patch, a thirteen year-old boy with one eye, and Saint, his best friend, complete with single braid and dungarees. The…

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A Chest Full of Words

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ It is impossible to put into words (so ironic is that) how much this reader adored this little children’s picture book, — the tale of a boy named Oscar. The book is illustrated beautifully, with soft-palette images so gorgeous and charming any reader (of any age) would love to…

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Arden

🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A fascinating, meticulously-researched story starring both William Shakespeare, and a real-life sixteenth-century convicted murderess, Alice Arden. Told in alternating first-person voices of each of the main protagonists, the story oscillates between the timeline leading up to Alice’s involvement in the historical murder, which took place in 1551, and Shakespeare’s…

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The Sister-in-Law

🌟🌟🌟🌟 An easy read with a fast-paced plot and lots of intrigue. The perfect read for an afternoon lie-in during a blizzard (or any reading day at all). Megan - our first-person-POV narrator - is a twenty-eight-year old recent widow - an ethereal beauty with white-blonde hair and an aversion…

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Facing the Unseen

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An immensely readable discussion of the U.S health care system and its treatment of mental health illness, as seen by a practicing physician and psychiatrist. Damon Tweedy, M.D has penned a book that is not only informative and thought provoking, but easy to read, blending the insightful story-telling of…

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The Unlucky Ones

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Edgy and raw, this is Book 4 in the Black Harbor series, and the first this reader has had the pleasure to read. Hazel Rydelle, our first-person POV narrator, is an ex-police-transcriber and and ex-occupant of Black Harbor, Milwaukee, — by her accounts a terrible place; black at heart;…

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The god of the woods

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Beautiful and intricate, this is both a character-driven novel and a tantalizing mystery, — and one of epic proportions, in every way imaginable. A haunting story that unfolds from multiple perspectives, all centering in and around the inhabitants (local or summertime) of a tiny rural town in a wild…

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How to Be Enough

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 For those of us who have found it hard (no, impossible) to ignore that little voice, (coming from inside, but imagined to be coming loud-and-clear by those outside of us) telling us to work unremittingly harder, faster, smarter for after all, we are just not good enough (yet?) -…

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