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Our Favorite Indie Bookstores

  • Post published:September 11, 2020
  • Post category:books/life

Almost a week ago I held a giveaway over on Instagram, and asked everyone to mention their favorite independent bookstore in the comments. Not only did people list a million…

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Books That Make You Feel Okay When Struggling

  • Post published:August 27, 2020
  • Post category:books/life

“As a wolf, I’m a diamond in the rough. I crack jokes. My whole life is about trying, about speaking up in order to be seen, about howling with laughter…

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My Summer Book Thoughts 2020

  • Post published:August 13, 2020
  • Post category:books

I’ve been away for a couple months, mostly thinking and processing. Social media has been a bit paralyzing recently, so I took a step back. Life is wild, and weird,…

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Review: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

  • Post published:May 15, 2020
  • Post category:books

Well, hi there! Long time no see! Before we get to my review of In Five Years by Rebecca Serle, I want to acknowledge that I’ve been missing for a…

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Review: Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin

  • Post published:February 13, 2020
  • Post category:books

Saint X Summary Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island…

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Everything I Read in 2019

  • Post published:January 9, 2020
  • Post category:books

Okay, not everything. (You can check out my Goodreads for that.) But I’m hoping that by the end of this post, you will get a sense of how the year…

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Review: The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers

  • Post published:November 21, 2019
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Impeachment szn is here, and boy is it depressing! Here’s the cure: Dave Eggers’ new novella. (At least I think it counts as a novella, feel free to politely correct.)…

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Review: The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

  • Post published:November 5, 2019
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The Grace Year by Kim Liggett Summary SURVIVE THE YEAR. No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to…

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Review: Frankly in Love by David Yoon

  • Post published:October 2, 2019
  • Post category:books

Frankly in Love Summary High school senior Frank Li is a Limbo–his term for Korean-American kids who find themselves caught between their parents’ traditional expectations and their own Southern California…

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Review: The Reason You’re Alive by Matthew Quick

  • Post published:September 10, 2019
  • Post category:books

The Reason You're Alive Summary After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his wartime Agent Orange exposure. He wakes…

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Hi! I'm Grace. This is my space for all things literary, lifestyle, and creative (and the one place I don't obsessively proofread).

I'm a reader and writer who finds almost anything interesting. (I flit around from hobby to hobby -- frankly, it's amazing I've been doing this blogging thing for as long as I have.)

I'm originally from the southern United States, but I now live in the U.K. If you stick around, you'll learn that I listen to a lot of audiobooks and feel very passionate about indie bookstores.

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