Wandering Stars Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There There —winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, the American […]
This week’s prompt is cinnamon roll characters, but since I missed last week, I want to revisit that prompt instead. It’s about mental health representation which I think is so important to have in books, and unfortunately, has been less than stellar. Mental health is a topic that […]
Nocturne Thank you to NetGalley and Del Rey Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: death of a sibling, death of a parent, grief, blood, murder, violence In this haunting, lyrical fantasy set in 1930s Chicago, a […]
Since September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, now is the perfect time to highlight books that include good mental health representation. And I’ve read a few that have some really good depictions of characters with various mental health issues depicted on page. Here are some of my favorites: […]
Weather Girl Author: Rachel Lynn Solomon Genre: Romance Publication Date: January 11, 2022 Publisher: Berkley Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her […]
Transcendent Kingdom Author: Yaa Gyasi Genre: Contemporary Fiction Publication Date: September 1, 2020 Publisher: Knopf TRIGGER WARNING: depression, addiction, overdose, racism, animal experiments, parental abandonment, suicide attempt Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and […]
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