Honest, thoughtful, and passionate book reviews and recommendations.
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Jess Ekstrom’s Chasing the Bright Side: Embrace Optimism, Activate Your Purpose, and Write Your Own Story is a wonderfully uplifting, joyful, and honest exploration of the ways in which entrepreneurs and go-getters of all kinds and in all stages can stay positive, live a life with purpose, and achieve their dreams.
Thanks to the amazing author, Jess, for sending me a free copy of her book!
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Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy is an utterly astounding account of the heinous ways in which the American justice system gets incarceration and the death penalty so wrong – disproportionately in the lives of disenfranchised and marginalized people.
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Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House is a fantastically unique, searingly honest memoir of one woman’s experience with abuse in a same-sex relationship.
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Lindy West’s The Witches are Coming is a hysterical, fierce collection of essays jam-packed with social commentary ranging from the political state of America to whether Adam Sandler is actually funny.
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Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs is a beautifully written, heartwarming memoir of the life – in stages from boyhood to womanhood – of trans activist, mother, and professor, Jennifer Finney Boylan, and the lessons that the many dogs in her life left her with.
Thank you to Celadon Books for the free advanced copy of this book!
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Mira Jacob’s Good Talk is a stunning graphic memoir that follows Jacob from adolescence through parenthood as she grapples with her identity as an East Indian woman and with the state of America pre- and post-Trump.
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Sarah McBride’s Tomorrow Will Be Different is a moving and empowering memoir about the power of passionate individuals, the fight for trans and LGTBQ+ equality, and McBride’s journey to coming out, finding love, and solidifying her purpose in the world.
