This review was originally published on The Rainbow Hub on April 14th, 2015. I have been given permission to reprint the review here. Enjoy!
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Book Review: Good Enough to Eat by Jae and Allison Grey
This review was originally published on The Rainbow Hub on March 30th, 2015. I have been given permission to reprint the review here. Enjoy!
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Book Review: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
I had the pleasure of reading The Interpreter of Maladies in a class called “Gender and Diaspora” when I was in college. I was familiar enough with Jhumpa Lahiri to know that her writing was mesmerizing and that I wanted more. I found The Namesake in a free mini library at the Dandelion Communitea Cafe in Orlando, and immediately devoured it.
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What I’ve Read This Year, So Far
I only started reading books again in April, and so far this year, I’ve read 27. Since we’ve got about 4 months left of the year, I figured now was a good time to break down what I’ve been reading, why, and what’s next.
5 books, 24 hours
I have been a reader all my life, but as a child I read so much more than I do now. Part of this is because I know have a full time job, part of it is because I can’t seem to find books I love the way I did when I was a kid, and part of it is just the world we live in now. Social media is a total time suck, and while some of it is valuable, you have to wade through a lot of dirt to get to the gold.
I recently took two 12 hour plan trips over the span of 4 days, flying from Orlando to Sacramento in two to three hour bursts. This, along with the fact that I wasn’t going to pay $12 for access to wifi bred the perfect conditions for reading. So I read, and it was amazing. Over these flights, I read some amazing books. I don’t have expansive thoughts on all of them, but I do have a few things I want to talk about, so here is goes:
The Life Changing Magic of Taking What Works for you from a Text
I recently read (well, listened to) The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Mari Kondo. People across the internet have reviewed this book, and I am not going to sit here and review the good or bad things. It’s been said, I don’t want to say it again. There have even been NY Times think pieces about her new line of organizing items from Target, which talked about the hypocrisy of selling organizing bins when the book advocates for using basic shoe boxes to organize.
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Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Gather round folks, this ones going to be super reflective!
This is a re-read for me. I loved Stargirl when I was in middle school, but didn’t know about this book until I started high school, and it’s been nearly 7 years since I last read it.
Book Review: The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
This is a book I picked up purely for its gorgeous cover:
I love how simple it is, and it really pulled me in while I was at the library. We often say to never judge a book by its cover, but the reason for covers is to draw in the eye toward something that may be magnificent.
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