Marsh grounds a lot of their work in Buddhism and self love. Their work is relatable and powerful for anyone, but especially for people wanting to learn more about life and who they are. So here are the five life lessons I have been trying to practice since reading Marsh’s book. Continue reading
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Review of Rumaan Alam’s “Leave the World Behind”: What happens when we ignore nature?
This novel doesn’t give you the whole story of how this tragedy unfolds, but rather asks the question: what would you do in the first few days of the world’s end? How would you spend your time? Where would you go? What would you do? Continue reading
Book Review of Emma Gannon’s “Olive”: Fiction about Being Childless
The pressure to have a child as a cis woman is REAL. It is all encompassing. It comes up with every person you meet – and the expectation is not if you will have kids, but when. So there is no nuance for those of use, who just really don’t think kids are for them for whatever personal reason that may be. Continue reading
Where Is My Motivation? And what I have been reading lately
Find out what I have been reading since the end of summer! Continue reading
Book Review of “About A Girl”: transgender lives in Australia
About a Girl was written by Rebekah Robertson about her experiences as a mother of twins, and as a mother of a trans daughter. Although this goes beyond being just a memoir. I feel it is also a call to action which is both educational and deeply personal. Robertson wrote the book with Georgie’s (her … Continue reading
A Review of “The Mother Fault”: Australian climate-change dystopia and the ‘Chinese bad guys’
Why is it that in our imagined fantasies, Asian countries are the bad guys? In light of the pandemic, I feel like this is even more important to talk about. What internal biases do we hold as a country if this is our default bad guy? Continue reading
A Review of Elena Ferrante’s “The Lying Life of Adults”: a perfect study of human nature
Ciao miei cari lettori! Oggi io voglio palare di uno degli autori più famosi d’italia, Elena Ferrante. Today, I wanted to take you on a little literary journey and share some personal experiences with you. I first started studying Italian when I was in high school. I was eleven years old and had just come … Continue reading
A Review of “Adults” by Emma Jane Unsworth: on- and offline life
This book has all the trappings of contemporary adult living from social media and phone obsessions including the ways in which life online complicates our relationships, especially female friendships. The characters are generally dreadful in their own special ways, but there was something about them that also made them real, accessible, and relatable. The novel … Continue reading
Brexit Literature: a complete review of Jonathan Coe’s “The Rotters’ Club” trilogy including “Middle England”
This post as been a long time coming and I am so glad to be able to finally review all three of Jonathan Coe’s novels from his accidental trilogy, The Rotters’ Club. When his novel Middle England was published in 2018 it received worldwide literary praise. Despite it popularity many readers didn’t know that it … Continue reading
“American Dirt” Was Written for White People and it Shows
I didn’t intend on reading or reviewing this book until it was picked for a book club I attend. I felt very apprehensive about reading it because I had read so many articles from Latinx and Chicanx authors, reviews, and journalists who had already detailed all the issues with the book. When I have spoken … Continue reading
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