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Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
What It’s About:
Something strange is happening to the people of Harrow; they’ve all grown obsessed, addicted, to the apples growing in Dan Paxton’s orchard. It’s an apple so delicious that it can help anyone who eats it achieve their inner desires. But at what cost?
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Chuck Wendig’s writing never fails to keep me at the edge of the…
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Got an old issue of the school newspaper. Circa 1956.
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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
Don’t you just hate it when someone on the Internet feels the need to compare a movie to the book it’s adapted from? It bugs the piss out of me, right? It’s so annoying? I am so glad we’re in agreement, because last month, I decided to hunker down and watch one romcom flick a day for all twenty-nine of them (thank you leap year!). One of those movies was The Map to Tiny Perfect Things. Of course,…
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How to Accidentally Settle Down [With Your High School Boyfriend] by Katherine Ryan
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Rating: 3 out of 5.
What It’s About:
Follow Katherine Ryan as she navigates us through her life from her high school on-again, off-again boyfriend to being a single mom while building her career as a stand up comic and how life sometimes comes back full circle.
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I wasn’t certain if this book would be up my alley, but I needed to take a break from the…
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nex was 16. they had a cat. his name was zeus. they played Minecraft. they were 16. they were beaten to death. they were a straight-a student. nobody called an ambulance. they loved rock music. they listened to the radio after school. they were 16. they were choctaw. they were 16. were.
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Indoctrinated As Straight
Photo by Kamaji Ogino
“There ought to be a time in one’s adult life which is dedicated to rediscovering the most important readings of our youth. Even if the books remain the same (though they too change, in the light of an altered historical perspective), we certainly have changed, and this later encounter is therefore completely new.
–Italo Calvino, Why Read the Classics?
90s Queer
I came…
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Dear Gloria
What follows is a slight rewrite of a class assignment. The assignment was to write a response letter to “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers” by Gloria Anzaldúa which can be found in the pages of A Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, an anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa. Because I am a creature of habit, I did deviate from just…
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They Look Alike by Nikki Crescent
The Kindle edition cover (blurred background) was too NSFW for WordPress & the GoodReads (tablet) was too fuzzy to use on its own.
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⭐⭐
Rating: 1.5 out of 5.
What It’s About:
Two years ago, George met the woman of his dreams. There’s just one problem: he lost her number after their first date and he never asked for her name. He held onto the hope that he may one day run into her again,…
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The Sissy Spell by Nikki Crescent
The Sissy Spell is anything but a case of mistaken sissification
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Rating: 3 out of 5.
What It’s About:
Jeremy hopes that Lily can cast a spell to make Amanda fall in love with him. The spell requires his blood and something special and deeply personal to Amanda, which he procures from the girls changing room. Just one problem: Lily is no expert in Latin.
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The Ephraim Enterprise, Utah, January 25, 1935
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Kansas Farmer, Topeka, Kansas, February 6, 1896
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I never wanted anything more
genuinely inconsolable I can't have one of these pompeii bread plushies fr.
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