It’s been another whammy of a week. I had been feeling better from the ulcerative colitis, and the several days of rest really seemed to help. The new strain of marijuana really helps with my ability to eat, although spending three days basically in bed has aggravated my […]
Well, it has been a doozy of a week over here. I spent several days in bed, feeling really under the weather. We went to the gastro and she ordered some tests and a scan to find out what is going on with my ulcerative colitis. It was […]
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, that New York Times bestselling author Clint Smith describes as “a book that left me breathless.” On a cold […]
Sociopath Thank you to libro.fm and Simon & Schuster Audio for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned […]
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 […]
Since She’s Been Gone Thank you to NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: eating disorder, death of a parent, self-harm, stalking, cancer, miscarriage, mention of addiction, mention of death of a child […]
Normally, I stick to the prompt that’s given, but I just wasn’t feeling this week’s prompt (characters from different books who should team up). So I asked my nephew to come up with a different prompt for me (I’m a bit tapped out on topics lately). And he […]
I spend a lot of time on here talking about books, but this week’s topic is a non-book freebie! This week I’m going to discuss ten random facts about me that will hopefully let you get to know me a little better. Some of these you might have […]
The Cartographers Thank you YA Books Central and HarperCollins for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. You can find my YA Books Central review here. CONTENT WARNING: suicidal ideation, depression As far as I could tell, I hadn’t learned a single […]
Pieces of Me Thank you to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: anxiety, mention of depression, mention of bulimia, suicidal thoughts, blood, suicide attempt, mention of self-harm, mention of alcohol abuse, mention of […]
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