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let’s judge a book by its cover
In Defence of the Act by Effie Black — a hot mushrooms style book review
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Poetry Pamphlet Appreciation Department
this post is about poetry and only slightly snarky about Taylor Swift
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Can a Shoe Ever Be Just a Shoe? Can I Ever Write a Review that is Just a Review?
a long-awaited (entirely by me) essay on High Heel, a book by Summer Brennan
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The Unbearable Biology of Being
or: Ottessa Bodies Moshfegh’s Body of Bodies Work
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Buffy, Brutus, Churchill, and Cicero Walk Into A Bar
and you'll never guess what happens next!
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Mrs Dalloway Said She Would Finish The Book No Matter What
I wish I hadn’t watched The Hours before reading Mrs Dalloway
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All I Want For Christmas Is Books, Baby
please read the title like Mariah Carey singing All I Want For Christmas Is You
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On Being Afraid of Fairies
and why the real world is much more terrifying
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Reading Really Is So Much Better Than Social Media
This year I made a concerted effort to read more books and to do so I made sure to include a “reading” section of my bullet journal to encourage and…
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before I watch Daisy Jones & The Six
I clearly had some thoughts to work through about the book and the upcoming (at the time of publication) show
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hot girl depression, I whisper to myself
you like me, you like me not... on book-clubs, likability, and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
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no one likes a mad woman
the second edition of my Reading Journal examines a book of short stories all about mad women
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