I acknowledge that some people may like this book, and find it helpful and enjoyable, but frankly, this was not for me. This book discussed a lot of manifesting and affirmations and how you were the only thing standing in the way of everything you want in life. It was written in a really chatty …
Month: April 2020
I thrive on structure and routine. Pre-COVID-19, a fair amount of the structure and routine in my life depended on external factors. School, spending time with friends, going to the gym. I still am doing those in some form, but the specifics of what they look like have changed radically. It’s been an adjustment, for …
I’ve been gardening for a long time. When I was four or five years old, I had a small planter that was shaped like a deer where I planted pansies, in high school I grew swiss chard and purple carrots, and I’ve been nursing a little jade plant and a large split-leaf philodendron for two …
Twelve, almost thirteen years ago, it was the summer between middle school and high school. I read Looking For Alaska for the first time, and I really loved it. Over the next several years, I became a fan of John Green’s books. His most recent book, Turtles All The Way Down, came out in 2017, …
This book was a great mix of being entertaining and engaging while also digging into issues of racism in America. The book alternates between two primary timelines – the present day, where Candice Miller and her mom have moved to her deceased grandmother’s house in Lambert, South Carolina for the summer, and Lambert in the …