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    Books: I Think My Eyes Are Bleeding? A New Moon Reread

    You didn’t ask, but I still answered. Once I started with the madness that is Twilight, I had to continue feeling pain, and that...

    Books: Exploring Uneven Relationships in Daisy Lafarge’s Paul

    Following her poetry collection, Life Without Air, comes Daisy LaFarge’s debut novel Paul, a literary novel following protagonist Frances Hawthorne. Frances is a medieval...

    Books: I Should Have Honor by Khalida Brohi

    In her 2018 memoir I Should Have Honor, activist and social entrepreneur Khalida Brohi writes about growing up in a culture in which domestic...

    Books: The Waiting Is the Hardest Part: Agency in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

    Some years ago, I read an essay that criticizes the women in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for sitting around waiting for things to...

    Books: Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke

    In this age of virtual independence (and dependence), one can travel the world with the click of a button. Over the past year and...

    Books: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    Here I go again. Writing about a woman author who became nameless through no fault of her own. It’s kind of my thing, and...

    Books: My Brain Is in a Supermassive Black Hole: A Twilight Reread

    Picture this: it’s 2008, and you’re in an endless line at the movie theater, waiting for someone to pull back the velvet rope so...

    Books: Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay

    Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay Author A. Manette Ansay was born and raised in the Great Lakes region of the United States. She had...

    Books: Girly Drinks by Mallory O’Meara

    When I met Mallory O’Meara briefly a couple of years ago, she’d just published her first book. The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood...

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    Books: I Hated This One: An Eclipse Reread

    I knew this one was bad, but I wasn’t prepared for the avalanche of nausea Eclipse brought me this go-round. I fully had to...

    The Tree of Life

    I just wanted to be in my car, with the windows up, listening to anything—a podcast, a book on tape, a wailing cat in heat—anything other than the sound of these voices in this clearing.

    Books: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

    Persepolis is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi. It is an emotional, informative, and humorous memoir about what it was like...