I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. After her grandmother dies, Kate Galway can’t help but thinking of her beloved aunt’s suicide fifty years before. No one on Meredith Island can forget it, not when Emma was so loved and had such a bright future ahead of her. While clearing …
1. I don’t know how to start this and I don’t really know what to say, I only know that I want to say something. I’ve had parts of this post sitting in a draft for months now preparing for today. I had planned to get my thoughts out early, to say what I wanted …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “The first line/of my eulogy is this: ‘I would cross/the River Styx for you.’ I would,/I honestly would,” (Ramoutar 9, “Baby Cerberus”). Ramoutar’s newest poetry collection does a perfect job of balancing light-heartedness and grief, of looking back towards the past and finding joy …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “I tried to be happy, but sometime your own happiness comes at the expense of other people’s, doesn’t it? It’s hard to balance being both happy and considerate. I often tried to be both by lying, but that usually made it worse,” (Austin). …
“If you do something that is forbidden, it is the action that is the target. If you do something that isn’t forbidden, and they intervene, then it’s not the activity that’s attracting attention, it’s you yourself,” (Harpman 35). Thirty-nine women and one young girl are kept in a deep underground bunker and watched by guards. The …
“Maybe this is love, the things we endure for the other, the willingness to face death, to stare it down, and not be afraid,” (Ernshaw 216). Travis Wren has a gift for finding missing people, all he has to do is touch an object belonging to the missing person and he can get an image …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “We may be nomadic and seem a little lost to people, but we’ve stripped away all the nonsense here. What’s the rush to get back to a conventional life? What’s the rush to go back and become good little corporate citizens, and lose …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Despair was like that, eating away at you from the inside, so that you hardly recognized it when you went dark. There was no point arguing with it at times like that. It would always win,” (Fahner 176). Lizzie Donoghue wants more out of …
“A child’s worry was not like an adult’s. It gnawed deep, and was so unnecessary. Why did people not realize children could withstand the truth? Why did adults insist on filling children with the deceptions their own parents had laid on them, when surely they remembered how it had felt to lie in bed and …
Today would have been my mom’s sixty-sixth birthday. I don’t usually make a post for her birthday, only on the anniversary of her death. I’m sure it’s to the annoyance of those who follow me online and maybe even to some of my friends. I’m sure some people see it as morbid, that others are …
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