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A red book near a candle and hourglass
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Book Review: East, West by Salman Rushdie (1998)

East West by Salman Rushdie is a short collection of fiction published in 1994. It centres the…

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Piranesi is My Favourite Book of the Year So Far

Piranesi is a fantastic novel. It’s sad, horrific at points and utterly gorgeous. I read this with…

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Book Review: Mindful Thoughts for Walkers, Adam Ford (2017)

Over the years I have encountered quite a few books that have some kind of spiritual or…

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When Men Write Witches: Circe

Circe, a lesser known goddess to the Greek pantheon, is a mythological retelling by Madeline Miller. There’s…

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Where the Crawdads Sing is a Poetic Disappointment

⋆ Spoilers Ahead and Trigger Warning for Mentions of Sexual Assault and Neglect⋆ Pastoral Poetry and Nature…

A red and blue bird on opposite sides
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Book Review: This is How You Lose the Time War (2019), Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

This is How You Lose the Time War is a romance/science fiction novel, which is a genre…

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Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half & Anti-Blackness

I picked up The Vanishing Half in the middle of winter at my local pharmacy. I have…

A line drawing of a physical heart with an arrot through it
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Book Review: Girl in Need of a Tourniquet (2010) by Merri Lisa Johnson

Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is a memoir by someone with Borderline Personality Disorder. It’s a…