#Bookstagram is this magical corner on Instagram where book nerds come together and talk about books. You can find very aesthetically pleasing images of books and lust after meticulously organized shelves. Also, selfies of people reading in the most unrealistic places! I started my journey on #bookstagram when I started my first book blog three […]
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Summary CW: domestic abuse Have you ever witnessed your friend or family member in a toxic relationship? Have you yourself ever been in a toxic relationship? To an outside perspective it seems impossible why anyone would ever stay in an unhealthy relationship. But to the person inside the relationship…it’s not that easy. In this story,
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Girlfriends, a foundational television series about four Black women loving, working, and understanding in Los Angeles, premiered in 2000 on UPN. Joan Carol Clayton, along with her friends Lynn, Maya, and Toni share a unique bond that is cozy, powerful, and real. Some background on Joan. She is a lawyer working on the path to
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Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer is the debut novel of Jamie Figueroa. Her bio on her website states that she is “Boricua (Afro-Taíno) by way of Ohio and long-time resident of northern New Mexico.” Boricua is a person from Puerto Rico by birth or descent and the Taíno “were an Arawak people who were the indigenous
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Natalia interviews Dr. Samantha Montano, disasterologist and professor at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy about her newest book DISASTEROLOGY: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis. They discuss why emergency management, something traditionally seen as “wonky” is actually hella feminist, how to battle fatigue when hearing the news, why flood plain maps are important and
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Opinions can be the bane or bridge of our existence. With people sharing more hot takes than a cactus garden in Phoenix, it can be harder to decipher through the noise. My concern lies with the influx of opinions. I know social media is not an intellectual buffet. However, it would not hurt people to
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As a freelancer, every day is a new adventure. Depending upon which deadlines I’m juggling, I engage in a mix of research, Zoom interviews, brainstorming, pitching, writing, and yes, let’s be real, scrolling through my Instagram feed. But now that I’m an editor at a literary magazine (a magazine devoted to creative, hoity-toity, literary writing
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Review This book tugged on every heart string I had. I did not expect the ending at all. The story started out a little slow for me – building up the family dynamic between Lucy and Sam took a few chapters for me to get into but I was eventually hooked. Lucy is the classic
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I often get asked “How do you read so many books?” One of the biggest things I’ve done to read more books is downloading an ebook app to my phone! I love to read during those in-between moments and am always surprised by how those moments add up. Here are three strategies to read more
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Know My Name is Chanel Miller’s memoir where she writes about her life, including her now highly publicized sexual assault in January 2015 and the events that unfolded after that. The memoir focuses on the day of the assault as well as the court case, People vs. Turner. Turner was convicted of three charges of
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (SMG) was born and raised in Mexico, and moved to Canada in 2004, where she later graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Master’s degree in Science and Technology Studies. SMG has published short stories in fiction magazines and anthologies for many years. Her debut novel Signal to Noise published in
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Renee unboxes our Back to School September box (sign up here!) and chats briefly about each small business featured in the box. Then Christine sits down with the queen of romance herself, Jasmine Guillory, to discuss her latest book While We Were Dating. Follow and support our hosts: Renee: Instagram Christine: Instagram // Twitter Follow
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