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Unlearning and Relearning: Reading and Writing, Again
In the past few years, I’ve been finding my way back to reading that excites and inspires me. Part of the process has been unlearning what I’ve been taught for so many years, and relearning ways that are more playful, open, and spontaneous. I don’t read only to “interpret” or “uncover,” but to simply experience.
There is no Freedom: Chain Gang All-Stars Review
In 359 pages, Adjei-Brenyah delivers soul-shattering violence and shines a light on the brutal love of spectacle that already exists in America today.
The Misrepresentation of Mental Illness: The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
While I think there is room for discourse surrounding mental illness and mental health in all genres, there is no reason for an awful trauma to be presented as the rationale for a murder mystery.
The Pestilence
It protests that it would never, and that two can travel, and hunt, more safely than one. This is again the truth, and the man is the sturdiest person it has seen in some time, which is good for protection and, if protection fails, for food.
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