Category: Memoir
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Review: PURE by Linda Kay Klein
Many thanks to Touchstone Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual “stumbling blocks” for boys and men, and any expression…
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Review: OKAY FINE WHATEVER by Courtenay Hameister
Thank you so much Little, Brown and Company for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay Hameister lived in a state of near-constant dread and anxiety. She fretted about everything. Her age.…
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Review: JELL-O GIRLS by Allie Rowbottom
Many thanks to Little, Brown and Company for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In 1899, Allie Rowbottom’s great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that…
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Review: FROM THE CORNER OF THE OVAL by Beck Dorey-Stein
Thank you so very much to Random House for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein is working five part-time jobs and just scraping by when a posting on Craigslist lands her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama’s stenographers. The ultimate D.C. outsider,…
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Review: MANY LOVE by Sophie Lucido Johnson
Many thanks to Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents’ forty-year and still-going-strong marriage, Sophie realized that maybe the love she was looking for was down a road less traveled. In this bold, graphic memoir, she explores her…
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Review: END OF THE ROPE by Jan Redford
Thank you so much Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: As a teenager, in a fit of rage toward her father, Jan pits herself against a steep rock face near their cottage. At the top, fired up by the victory, she sets her sights on the…
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Blog Tour & Review: AMSTERDAM EXPOSED by David Wienir
Book Description: Amsterdam Exposed tells the true one-of-a-kind story of an innocent exchange student who moves to Amsterdam hoping to write a book about the red light district and everything that follows. It’s an American abroad story, and also a love story; it’s an uplifting tragedy, full of humor from beginning to end; it’s an…
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Review: HEART BERRIES by Terese Marie Mailhot
Book Description: Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given…
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Book Mail: SISTER OF DARKNESS by R. H. Stavis
Thank you so much to Wunderkind PR, Dey Street Books for this free copy! This sounds incredibly interesting and I cannot wait to read it! SYNOPSIS: The world’s only non-denominational exorcist tells her astonishing true story: a riveting chronicle of wrestling entities from infected souls, showing how pain and trauma opens us to attachment from…
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Amazon Purchase: HEART BERRIES by Terese Marie Mailhot
I have been waiting to read this one! I’ve seen this on a bunch of “must read” lists and the cover is gorgeous! It’s surprisingly short too! SYNOPSIS: Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional…