Julia's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 11 May 2025 10:50:21 -0700 60 Julia's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The History of Everything: A Graphic Novel]]> 213656350 Best friends Agnes and Daisy must learn to say goodbye in this coming-of-age YA graphic novel perfect for fans of Booksmart and Pumpkinheads from debut creator Victoria Evans.

Daisy and Agnes have always had each other.

And łŮłó˛ąłŮ’s all they’ve ever needed—or wanted, at least. So when Agnes’s mom drops the bombshell that she and Agnes are moving at the end of the summer, the girls are crushed.

All seems lost until the pair unearth "The History of Everything," an old friendship scrapbook with the ultimate bucket list to make their last summer together unforgettable. But when Daisy starts dating a charming drummer, her social calendar suddenly has less room for her best friend. Insecurities bubble to the surface, and Daisy and Agnes begin to question if their friendship is meant to last the summer, much less forever.

In this tender graphic novel debut, Victoria Evans delves into the heart of a best friendship and explores what it means to grow up without growing apart.]]> 240 Victoria Evans 0063268892 Julia 0 to-read 3.89 2025 The History of Everything: A Graphic Novel
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]]> Visitations 200982311 Inspired by true events, this haunting yet hopeful young adult graphic novel weaves together family dynamics, mental illness, and religion―perfect for fans of Hey, Kiddo.

Corey’s mom has always made him feel safe. Especially after his parents� divorce, and the dreaded visitations with his dad begin. But as Corey grows older, he can’t ignore his mother’s increasingly wild accusations. Her insistence that God has appointed Corey as his sister’s protector. Her declaration that Corey’s father is the devil.

Soon, she whisks Corey and his sister away from their home and into the boiling Nevada desert. There, they struggle to survive with little food and the police on the trail. Meanwhile, under the night sky, Corey is visited by a flickering ghost, a girl who urges him to fight for a different world―one outside of his mother’s spoon-fed tales, one Corey must find before it’s too late.

Drawing inspiration from his own upbringing in the Mormon church, Corey Egbert welcomes readers on an emotionally stirring, nuanced journey into the liminal spaces between imagination and memory, faith and truth.]]> 336 Corey Egbert 037430842X Julia 0 to-read 4.04 2024 Visitations
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]]> <![CDATA[Midlife Private Parts: Revealing Essays that Will Change the Way You Think About Age]]> 222019063 One of Zibby's Most Anticipated Books of 2025

Midlife Private Parts is a soulful and revealing collection of essays that explore the many facets of this transformative time in life. Each story sheds light, with humanity and good humor, on what it really feels like to move through the world as a midlife woman and beyond.

Whether it's sexual pleasure, midlife reinvention, menopause, friendship, redefining style at a certain age, dating after divorce, feeling invisible, or simply being in the last place you ever thought you'd be, you'll feel seen in these essays that acknowledge the changes and challenges but capture the power, freedom, and confidence that comes with age.

Told through the eyes of contemporary women writers, authors, and creatives, each shares a story of coming to terms with aging and confronting the unexpected moments that define midlife. In their candid personal narratives, you will find connection, validation, promise, and inspiration.

If you are craving community, Midlife Private Parts will be akin to a safe haven where you will feel seen, heard, and understood. A place where women are empowered to age boldly and unapologetically.]]> 224 Dina Alvarez Julia 0 to-read 4.67 Midlife Private Parts: Revealing Essays that Will Change the Way You Think About Age
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]]> Wine For A Shotgun 16148707 70 Marty McConnell 0985094621 Julia 0 to-read 4.26 2012 Wine For A Shotgun
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]]> <![CDATA[A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb]]> 220999008 The bestselling author of High Achiever reckons with life after addiction in this darkly funny and emotionally raw new memoir

“For as long as I can remember my mind was like a train with only three stops. Stop number one—getting money for drugs. Stop number two—getting drugs. Stop number three—getting high. During the years I should have been learning to save money, file taxes, and pay bills, I was stuck on a train to nowhere. Now some­how my train was on a brand-new course to somewhere I’d never been, and I was the friggin� conductor.�

After a brutal struggle with opioid addiction that landed her four months in prison, Tiffany was ready for a fresh start. What she didn't expect was just how fast life would happen once she was out of prison.ĚýShe went from felon to married, sober mom of three in just two years. But life doesn’t stop happening; her marriage collapsed a few years later, a crisis that forced her reckoning with the foundations of her mental health and sobriety.

As she forged her future, Tiffany learned to feel emotions and live life without numbing herself with drugs. She had to figure out how to be a mom, how to have a career, how to be married, how to get divorced, how to be an adult, and how to have feelings all at the same time. With dark humor and page-turning storytelling, she shows how she learned to survive when her crutches and band aids were taken away from her, and the gratitude and peace she found on the other side of addiction.]]> 304 Tiffany Jenkins 0593232631 Julia 0 to-read 4.56 A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb
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]]> <![CDATA[Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries]]> 60310691 A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead

The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born ˛Ń±đ±ô±ąľ±±ô±ô±đ’s lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our dead.

˛Ń±đ±ô±ąľ±±ô±ô±đ’s Over My Dead Body is a lively (pun intended) and wide-ranging history of cemeteries, places that have mirrored the passing eras in history but have also shaped it. Cemeteries have given birth to landscape architecture and famous parks, as well as influenced architectural styles. They’ve inspired and motivated some of our greatest poets and authors—Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson. They’ve been used as political tools to shift the country’s discourse and as important symbols of the United States' ambition and reach.

But they are changing and fading. Embalming and burial is incredibly toxic, and while cremations have just recently surpassed burials in popularity, they’re not great for the environment either. Over My Dead Body explores everything—history, sustainability, land use, and more—and what it really means to memorialize.

Locales visited in Over My Dead Body
Shawsheen Cemetery � Bedford, Massachusetts
The 1607 Burial Ground � Historic Jamestowne, Virginia
Burial Hill � Plymouth, Massachusetts
Colonial Jewish Burial Ground � Newport, Rhode Island
Monticello’s African American Graveyard � Charlottesville, Virginia
Mount Auburn Cemetery � Cambridge, Massachusetts
Green-Wood Cemetery � Brooklyn, New York
Laurel Grove Cemetery � Savannah, Georgia
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery � Concord, Massachusetts
Central Park � New York, New York
Gettysburg National Cemetery � Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Arlington National Cemetery � Arlington, Virginia
Woodlawn Cemetery � Bronx, New York
Boothill Graveyard � Tombhill, Arizona
Forest Lawn Memorial-Park � Glenwood, California
The Chapel of the Chimes � Oakland, California
Hollywood Forever Cemetery � Los Angeles, California
Nature's Sanctuary � Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]> 272 Greg Melville 1419754858 Julia 0 to-read 3.96 2022 Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
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]]> <![CDATA[The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise]]> 214351536 From the head curator of the most famous cemetery in the world—a moving story about a place where joy, grief, and wild nature converge in unexpected and inspiring ways.

“Père-Lachaise in Paris, whose tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and many other artistic icons have made it a popular tourist draw, has become a haven for wildlife.”—from the New York Times profile of author Benoît Gallot

For Benoît Gallot, Père Lachaise is best explored without a You’re guaranteed to lose your way. You’ll feel as though you’ve stepped out of time, out of Paris, and into another place entirely. In his debut memoir, Gallot, head curator of Père Lachaise and son of a grave stonemason, pulls back the curtains on his otherworldly workplace—a cemetery crammed with tourists in the high season and mourners year round, but also a natural paradise, where foxes roam, birds flit between trees, and wildflowers and moss encroach onto tombstones.

In elegant, engrossing chapters, Gallot reveals the secret world of Père Lachaise—its Napoleonic origins, its unusual graves and monuments—alongside touching stories from his working life in the cemetery. Born into a family of undertakers, Gallot was named curator of Père-Lachaise in his early-thirties, inheriting the complex job of managing over 100 acres of green space, overseeing 70,000 graves, and arranging burials and cremations, all while contending with millions of tourist—plus film crews, birdwatchers, ghost hunters, and the occasional nude performance artist. Gallot, who also lives on the cemetery grounds with his wife and young children, demystifies his unusual and often misunderstood profession, which in reality requires much more contact with living people than dead ones. In doing so, he provides insight into the history of graveyards and our evolving relationship with death.

Gallot also shares vivid descriptions of flora and fauna, which have reemerged in recent years thanks to a huge rewilding effort. Initially unsure about the idea, he embraced it as the cemetery alleys blossomed and birdsong proliferated. Then in April 2020, with the city in lockdown, Gallot took an early-morning stroll and crossed paths with a fox—in the middle of Paris! He snapped a picture and posted it, unwittingly setting off a media frenzy. Gallot’s daily photographs of Père-Lachaise’s flourishing animal and plant life have attracted followers from around the world, helping to change the public perception of cemeteries, which ultimately exist as places for the living.

A bestseller in France, lauded as “a superb book � full of humor, empathy, and great sweetness� by the French literary press, The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a life-affirming read that will stand the test of time.

]]> 240 Benoît Gallot 1778401589 Julia 0 to-read 4.09 The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise
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]]> <![CDATA[The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year]]> 123087784 The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer.

Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author—and from us. For, as Renkl writes, “radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world.�

With fifty-two original color artworks by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.]]> 270 Margaret Renkl 1954118465 Julia 0 currently-reading 4.17 2023 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
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]]> Speak No Evil 36489607
On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer—an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders—and the one person who seems not to judge him.

When his father accidentally discovers Niru is gay, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed.

In the tradition of Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Speak No Evil explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. It is a novel about the power of words and self-identification, about who gets to speak and who has the power to speak for other people. As heart-wrenching and timely as his breakout debut, Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala’s second novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves us reeling in its wake.

One of Bustle’s 35 Most Anticipated Fiction Books Of 2018 | One of Paste's 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2018 | One of The Boston Globe’s 25 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018]]> 229 Uzodinma Iweala Julia 4 4.08 2018 Speak No Evil
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]]> Sociopath 176443093
Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn’t understand. She suspected it was because she didn’t feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn’t like the way that “nothing� felt.

She did her best to pretend she was like everyone else, but the constant pressure to conform to a society she knew rejected anyone like her was unbearable. So Patric stole. She lied. She was occasionally violent. She became an expert lock-picker and home-invader. All with the goal of replacing the nothingness with...something.

In college, Patric finally confirmed what she’d long suspected. She was a sociopath. But even though it was the very first personality disorder identified—well over 200 years ago—sociopathy had been neglected by mental health professionals for decades. She was told there was no treatment, no hope for a normal life. She found herself haunted by sociopaths in pop culture, madmen and evil villains who are considered monsters. Her future looked grim.

But when Patric reconnects with an old flame, she gets a glimpse of a future beyond her diagnosis. If she’s capable of love, it must mean that she isn’t a monster. With the help of her sweetheart (and some curious characters she meets along the way) she embarks on a mission to prove that the millions of Americans who share her diagnosis aren’t all monsters either.

This is the inspiring story of her journey to change her fate and how she managed to build a life full of love and hope.]]> 368 Patric Gagne 166800318X Julia 1 3.73 2024 Sociopath
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]]> <![CDATA[Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do]]> 53440837
“This book will surprise, astonish, and hopefully anger you on the lengths women have had to go to pursue their dreams. Tracy has such a gift for storytelling and making history leap off the page. Her book has a wit that suggests it was written by a man since everyone knows women aren't this funny.”—Kay Cannon, writer, producer, director (Pitch Perfect, Cinderella)

“A smart, funny journey through history that introduces us to the rule breakers who made history worth traveling through.”—Patton Oswalt

“I came up with Tracy as a fellow sketch comedian on the vomit-soaked stages of the Toronto comedy scene. And like the brilliant, resourceful, rule-breaking, damn-well-stubborn sisters in Let Me Be Frank, Tracy is someone who gets the job done, and gets it done well.”—Samantha Bee

"This spirited feminist history entertains and enlightens."—Publishers Weekly

Let Me Be Frank illuminates with a wry warmth the incredible stories of a diverse group of women from different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds who have defied the patriarchy, refusing to allow men or the status quo to define their lives or break their spirit. An often sardonic and thoroughly impassioned homage to female ingenuity and tenacity, the women profiled in this inspiring anthology broke the rules to reach their goals and refused to take “no� for an answer. These women took matters into their own hands, dressing—sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively—as men to do what they wanted to do. This includes competing in marathons, publishing books, escaping enslavement, practicing medicine, tunneling deep in the earth as miners, taking to the seas as pirates and serving on the frontlines in the military, among many other pursuits. Not only did these women persist, many unknowingly made history and ultimately inspired later generations in doing so. This compendium is an informative and enthralling celebration of these revolutionary badasses who have changed the world and our lives.

Let Me Be FrankĚýis filled with more than two dozen specially commissioned, full-color illustrations and hand-lettering by artist Tina Berning, whose multi-award-winning work has been published in numerous publications and anthologies worldwide, and is designed by Alex Kalman.

WOMEN PROFILED INCLUDE: Jeanne BaretĚý* Anne Bonny and Mary ReadĚý* Christian CaddellĚý* Ellen CraftĚý* Catalina De ErausoĚý* Louise Augustine GleizesĚý* HatshepsutĚý* Annie Hindle and FlorenceĚýHines* Pili HusseinĚý* Joan of ArcĚý* Rena “Rustyâ€� KanokogiĚý* Margaret KingĚý* Dorothy LawrenceĚý* TarpĂ© MillsĚý* Hannah SnellĚý* Kathrine SwitzerĚý* Maria ToorpakaiĚý* Dr. Mary Edwards WalkerĚý* Cathay Williams]]> 224 Tracy Dawson Julia 0 to-read 3.75 2022 Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
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]]> <![CDATA[Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything]]> 199531821 256 Colette Shade 0063333945 Julia 0 to-read 3.59 2025 Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything
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]]> Generation Wealth 32792709 A highly anticipated monograph from the internationally acclaimed documentary photographer and filmmaker

Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth is both a retrospective and an investigation into the subject of wealth over the last twenty-five years. Greenfield has traveled the world - from Los Angeles to Moscow, Dubai to China - bearing witness to the global boom-and-bust economy and documenting its complicated consequences. Provoking serious reflection, this book is not about the rich, but about the desire to be wealthy, at any cost.]]> 504 Lauren Greenfield 0714872121 Julia 0 to-read 4.47 2017 Generation Wealth
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]]> <![CDATA[The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry]]> 35655983 Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself of terminal brain cancer by eating a healthy diet. She built a global business based on her story. There was just one problem: she never had cancer in the first place.

In 2015, journalists uncovered the truth behind Gibson’s lies. This hero of the wellness world, with more than 200,000 followers, international book deals, and a best-selling mobile app, was a fraud. She had lied about having cancer--to her family and friends, to her business partners and publishers, and to the hundreds of thousands of people who were inspired by her, including real cancer survivors.

Written by the two journalists who uncovered the details of Gibson’s deception, The Woman Who Fooled the World tracks the 23-year-old's rise to fame and fall from grace. Told through interviews with the people who know her best, it explores the lure of alternative cancer treatments, exposes the darkness at the heart of the wellness and "clean eating" movements, and reveals just how easy it is to manipulate people on social media.

With the idea of clean eating now routinely debunked by dietary experts, and growing skepticism about the authenticity of what we read online, The Woman Who Fooled the World is a timely and important book that answers not just how, but why, Gibson was able to fool so many.]]> 324 Beau Donelly 1911344579 Julia 0 to-read 3.99 2017 The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
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]]> What Lies in the Woods 60784373
For decades afterward, the friends have kept a secret worth killing for. But now Olivia wants to tell, and Naomi sets out to find out what really happened in the woods―no matter how dangerous the truth turns out to be.]]> 336 Kate Alice Marshall 1250859883 Julia 2 3.93 2023 What Lies in the Woods
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]]> <![CDATA[You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip]]> 212426504 A delightfully insightful exploration of our obsession with gossip that weaves together journalism, cultural criticism, and memoir, from the host of the massively popular Normal Gossip podcast.

Can you keep a secret? As the pandemic forced us to socialize at a distance, Kelsey McKinney was mourning the juicy updates, jaw-dropping stories, and idle chatter that she’d typically collect over drinks with friends.ĚýShe realized she wasn’t the only one missing these little morsels and her hunger for this aspect of normalcy took on a life of its ownĚýandĚýthe blockbuster Normal Gossip podcast was born.ĚýWith listenership in the millions and gossip quickly becoming her day job, Kelsey found herself with the urge to think more critically about gossip as a form, to better understand the role that it plays in our culture.

In YOU DIDN'T HEAR THIS FROM ME, McKinney explores the murkiness of everyday storytelling. Why is gossip considered a sin and how can we better recognize when gossip is being weaponized against the oppressed? Why do we think we’re entitled to every detail of a celebrity’s personal life because they are a public figure? And how do we even define “gossip,â€� anyway? She dishes on the art of eavesdropping and dives deep into how pop culture has changed the way that we look at hearsay. But as much as the book aims to treat gossip as a subject worthy of rigor, it also hopes to capture the heart of how enchanting and fun it can be to lean over and whisper something a little salacious into your friend’s ear. With wit and honesty, McKinney unmasks what we're actually searching for when we demand to know the truth â€� and how much the truth really matters in the first place. Ěý±Ő±Ő> 288 Kelsey McKinney 1538757400 Julia 0 to-read 3.79 2025 You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
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]]> I Hated You in High School 214150726
Struggling 20-something Tessa has a dead-end job as a barista and the dream of a creative career that never quite seems to take off. When the coffee shop where she works goes out of business, she's able to visit her parents for the first time in years. Arriving at her family home, she discovers that her parents have rented out the basement apartment to her high school nemesis, Olive Virtue. Old wounds resurface during Tessa’s stay, but an accident that traps them in the attic forces them to face their past and think about their future.

I Hated You in High School is an enemies-to-lovers story inspired by classic romantic movies—with a queer twist. Author and illustrator Kathleen Gros has expanded her short story webcomic into a beautiful tale of love and learning.]]> 264 Kathleen Gros 1524889539 Julia 0 to-read 3.92 I Hated You in High School
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]]> <![CDATA[So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All]]> 217388362 A intimate, hilarious memoir of art, friendship, queerness, and found family by Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey, stars of The L Word—including never-before-shared stories and photos from behind the scenes of the show and their personal lives.

"The point is we're all connected, see? Through love, through loneliness, through one tiny, lamentable lapse in judgment. All of us, in our isolation, we reach out from the darkness, from the alienation of modern life, to form these connections." � Alice Pieszecki, Season 1, Episode 2, The L Word

In the early aughts, Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey—both young artists trying to figure it all out—met at auditions for what they thought was just an unknown little TV show. Given that it was a show about lesbians living in LA, with the first ever ensemble cast of openly queer female characters, Kate and Leisha knew the project was going to be unlike anything else out there.

What they didn't foresee was just how huge The L Word would become. One million people watched the premiere, and the show quickly turned into a groundbreaking phenomenon. Its influence on pop culture, in the political arena, and in the lives of queer—and straight—viewers has been lasting, impactful, even life-saving. But in addition to changing the course of television history, The L Word also changed Kate and Leisha's lives forever.

From their first day on set, Kate and Leisha have always had each other’s backs, inseparable to the degree that the cast joked they were like a pair of pants—you couldn't have one leg without the other. Hence the name for their podcast, PANTS, born during the pandemic and now downloaded over 20 million times.

So Gay for You is a love letter to a life-defining friendship over the decades, and following Kate and Leisha's unlikely and extremely entertaining journey stumbling from closeted queer kids to LGBTQ+ activists to successful actresses, podcasters, and business owners. Full of never-before-shared glimpses into the making of The L Word, Kate and Leisha's real-life loves and losses, and their status as queer icons, So Gay for You is, at its heart, a book about a deep meaningful connection with your ride or die and the gift of finding your chosen family.]]> 272 Leisha Hailey 1250361362 Julia 0 to-read 4.54 So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All
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]]> <![CDATA[Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir]]> 203931803 A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.

In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in numerous therapy sessions, connected with fellow patients and experienced profound breakthroughs, such as when a doctor noted, “There is a you inside that feels invisible to those looking at you from the outside.�

In Men Have Called Her Crazy, Tendler recounts her hospital experience as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed. As the title suggests, many of these moments are impacted by men: unrequited love in high school; the twenty-eight-year-old she lost her virginity to when she was sixteen; the frustrations and absurdities of dating in her mid-thirties; and her decision to freeze her eggs as all her friends were starting families.

This stunning literary self-portrait examines the unreasonable expectations and pressures women face in the 21st century. Yet overwhelming and despairing as that can feel, Tendler ultimately offers a message hope. Early in her stay in the hospital, she says, “My wish for myself is that one day I’ll reach a place where I can face hardship without trying to destroy myself.� By the end of the book, she fulfills that wish.]]> 304 Anna Marie Tendler 1668032341 Julia 2 memoir, mental-health
She accounts for all these unfortunate encounters with men she’s been with yet interestingly chooses to completely gloss over the entire relationship leading up to her marriage and its dissolution. I guess she was married to a famous dude from SNL. Oh, so she’s likely well-off and can afford to luxuriate in this journey? Okay. That is good for her. But stunted in her anger, she ultimately gives the impression of a dismissive and defensive misandrist. And don’t get me wrong—I am a feminist through and through. I empathize with Tendler's disdain for the patriarchy and I felt for her in the moments she was taken advantage of. But when she has a crappy conversation with a man-child, for example, she storms off rather than use it as an opportunity to educate or I don’t even know, dig deeper…Not that it would have likely made any difference but still. Sometimes she reminded me of when I was fresh into feminism at 18 and so easily riled up with no way to harness that fervor.

If you want to sum up this book, towards the end Tendler declares, “I don’t hate men. I still want to fuck them.â€� Yeeeeesh. This is in direct contradiction to her earlier stating, “I fucking hate them so much. I don't even know if I want to fuck them anymore.â€� So łŮłó˛ąłŮ’s uncomfortable. Make of it what you will. If you think łŮłó˛ąłŮ’s growthâ€�

For me, (and memoirs are always tricky to properly rate as they are the essence of another’s lived experience, the same rules don’t apply as they may to fiction, etc.) there was a lot of potential here for more inward reflection, insight, and betterment but it falls flat. ]]> 3.41 2024 Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
author: Anna Marie Tendler
name: Julia
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2025/01/25
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves: memoir, mental-health
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On one hand, I appreciated this memoir as an exploration of one woman’s mental health, the circumstances that led her to seek help through hospitalization, and the connections she made. On the other hand, woof. Accompanied with the blaming of men for all her problems, there was a bit too much navel-gazing that seemed better suited for Tendler’s own journals. Ultimately I felt there really wasn’t not a lot of growth, accountability, or insight. Well, I guess she knew enough to know she wouldn’t want to have a boy child, yet then decides to freeze her eggs anyway basically because of FOMO with her gal pals?? Recounting being snapped at by a director on photoshoot, she just quits her career at the time altogether which is fine, but not seemingly impactful in a really any way or another to her. Time spent at the hospital often lingers too long on details of bracelet-making rather than breakthroughs. She confusingly engages in a troublesome relationship with her female therapist who eventually demands a “divorce� (what? I still don’t even understand that one). A quote from the show Shrinking goes “sometimes a patient can be an unreliable narrator.� Not victim-blaming, just properly wondering as some of these situations she accounts for are murky at best with supporting details conveniently left out. Then as someone in recovery for ED, she still seems to glorify her tiny wrists and, if you see her Instagram content, feels very yikes, glamorizing this tinier frame.

She accounts for all these unfortunate encounters with men she’s been with yet interestingly chooses to completely gloss over the entire relationship leading up to her marriage and its dissolution. I guess she was married to a famous dude from SNL. Oh, so she’s likely well-off and can afford to luxuriate in this journey? Okay. That is good for her. But stunted in her anger, she ultimately gives the impression of a dismissive and defensive misandrist. And don’t get me wrong—I am a feminist through and through. I empathize with Tendler's disdain for the patriarchy and I felt for her in the moments she was taken advantage of. But when she has a crappy conversation with a man-child, for example, she storms off rather than use it as an opportunity to educate or I don’t even know, dig deeper…Not that it would have likely made any difference but still. Sometimes she reminded me of when I was fresh into feminism at 18 and so easily riled up with no way to harness that fervor.

If you want to sum up this book, towards the end Tendler declares, “I don’t hate men. I still want to fuck them.â€� Yeeeeesh. This is in direct contradiction to her earlier stating, “I fucking hate them so much. I don't even know if I want to fuck them anymore.â€� So łŮłó˛ąłŮ’s uncomfortable. Make of it what you will. If you think łŮłó˛ąłŮ’s growthâ€�

For me, (and memoirs are always tricky to properly rate as they are the essence of another’s lived experience, the same rules don’t apply as they may to fiction, etc.) there was a lot of potential here for more inward reflection, insight, and betterment but it falls flat.
]]> <![CDATA[Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst]]> 62873978
What does it take to grow up cool and popular, master adulthood, fast track your success, and always be your best? Laura Belgray wouldn’t know.

Her wildly relatable coming-of-age stories include hate-following her 6th grade bully on social media decades later; moving home post-college to measure her self-worth in hookups with Upper West Side bartenders; dating a sociopathic man-baby; proving herself in the early â€�90s at New York’s coolest magazine (as the world’s worst intern); falling for get-rich-quick schemes on the Internet; and, most of all, saying “tough tittiesâ€� to the supposed-to’s in driving a car, being on time, handing in your paperwork, learning to roast a chicken, and having kids.Ěý

Peppered with cutting insights on our confusing, self-helpy culture that calls hair removal “self care� and tells us to give our 110% but also to give zero f*cks, Tough Titties will leave you feeling better about, well, everything. Let’s face we’re all tired of shame-spiraling after being told what to do when we know we’re not going to do any of it.

Tough Titties is one big permission slip to be a dork, a sometimes-unspiritual slacker, a late bloomer and, ultimately, 100% yourself. It’ll also have you snort-laughing in public and tapping whoever’s nearby to say, “Lemme read you one more part!� Which is annoying, but tough titties.
Ěý±Ő±Ő> 320 Laura Belgray 0306826046 Julia 5 3.51 Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst
author: Laura Belgray
name: Julia
average rating: 3.51
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Honestly one of those rare gems łŮłó˛ąłŮ’s so good—affirming and entertaining; I came across it by happenstance and in just the right time. A book I wish I could experience all over again anew and I don’t feel that often. Laura Belgray feels like a kindred and amusing spirit.
]]> Love, Pamela 61812427 To live and dream is a wicked dance.

My dreams often come true -- a curse, and a blessing.

Pamela Anderson's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was quickly launched into superstardom, becoming Playboy's favorite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sex appeal. Yet the Pamela Anderson we think we know was created through happenstance rather than careful cultivation. Love, Pamela brings forth her true story: that of a small-town girl getting tangled up in her own dream.

Growing up on Vancouver Island, the daughter of young, wild, and unwittingly stylish parents, Pamela lived a hardscrabble childhood but developed a deep love for nature, populating her world with misfits, apparitional friends, and injured animals. Eventually overcoming her natural shyness, Pamela's restless imagination propelled her into a life few can dream of, from the beaches of Malibu to the coveted scene at the Playboy Mansion. As her star rose, she found herself a fixture of tabloid fodder, at the height of an era when paparazzi tactics were bent on destroying a person's image and self-esteem.

Pamela forged ahead with grace, finding sanctuary in her love of art and literature, and emerged a devoted mother and activist. Now, having returned to the island of her childhood, after a memorable run starring as Roxie in Chicago on Broadway, Pamela is telling her story, a story of an irrepressible free spirit coming home and discovering herself anew at every turn. With vivid prose interspersed with bursts of original poetry, Love, Pamela is a pensive, layered, and unforgettable memoir.]]> 256 Pamela Anderson 0063226561 Julia 5 3.80 2023 Love, Pamela
author: Pamela Anderson
name: Julia
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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]]> Listen for the Lie 127279000 What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn't matter?

Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all and, if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. But after Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer.

It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life. But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast Listen for the Lie and its too-good looking host, Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy’s murder for the show’s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one who did it.

The truth is out there, if we just listen.]]> 352 Amy Tintera 1250880319 Julia 2 4.06 2024 Listen for the Lie
author: Amy Tintera
name: Julia
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/25
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]]> The Surrogate Mother 40893132
But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not in her future. That is, until her personal assistant Monica makes a generous offer that will make all of Abby's dreams come true.

Or all of her nightmares.

Because it turns out Monica isn't who she says she is. The woman now carrying Abby's child has dark, twisted secrets.

And she will stop at nothing to get what she wants. ]]> 341 Freida McFadden Julia 2
I feel like if you’re reading/listening to Freida McFadden, you likely know what you’re getting into. Naive/unlikeable and/or exceedingly bland, maybe every girl/I can see myself in her-type main characters, a conniving antagonist, probably a dopey significant other, problematic over-generalizations (borderline personality disorder = crazy, neurodivergence = weird), twists so improbable they’re painfully laughable. The writing is nothing fantastic. A lot of the points are repeated over and over—something a quality editor may have cleaned up.

But I guess I have to say these books are kind of fun. I hate to say it. I wouldn’t say they are satisfying or good but they’re on par with consuming 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days. It takes up time, you don’t have to think too much, and before you know it a good amount of time has passed.]]> 3.93 2018 The Surrogate Mother
author: Freida McFadden
name: Julia
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2018
rating: 2
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I read The Inmate awhile back and thought to myself, okay, I get the hype and excitement around this author but don’t feel the need to consume any more of her work. Then I found myself needing something to pass the time of 8+ hour drives.

I feel like if you’re reading/listening to Freida McFadden, you likely know what you’re getting into. Naive/unlikeable and/or exceedingly bland, maybe every girl/I can see myself in her-type main characters, a conniving antagonist, probably a dopey significant other, problematic over-generalizations (borderline personality disorder = crazy, neurodivergence = weird), twists so improbable they’re painfully laughable. The writing is nothing fantastic. A lot of the points are repeated over and over—something a quality editor may have cleaned up.

But I guess I have to say these books are kind of fun. I hate to say it. I wouldn’t say they are satisfying or good but they’re on par with consuming 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days. It takes up time, you don’t have to think too much, and before you know it a good amount of time has passed.
]]> The Coworker 123423832 Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back.

Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m.

So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell—beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running—is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything�

It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider—she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who's the real victim?

But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff. Enough to kill.

The Coworker is a tense, unputdownable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden that explores the dark ways the past can echo through the present―with deadly consequences.]]> 362 Freida McFadden 172829620X Julia 3 3.68 2023 The Coworker
author: Freida McFadden
name: Julia
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death]]> 205362868 How animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality

When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a uniquely human attribute, is widespread in the animal kingdom.

With humor and empathy, Susana Monsó tells the stories of ants who attend their own funerals, chimpanzees who clean the teeth of their dead, dogs who snack on their caregivers, crows who avoid the places where they saw a carcass, elephants obsessed with collecting ivory, and whales who carry their dead for weeks. Monsó, one of today’s leading experts on animal cognition and ethics, shows how there are more ways to conceive of mortality than the human way, and challenges the notion that the only emotional reactions to death worthy of our attention are ones that resemble our own.

Blending philosophical insight with new evidence from behavioral science and comparative psychology, Playing Possum dispels the anthropocentric biases that cloud our understanding of the natural world, and reveals that, when it comes to death and dying, we are just another animal.]]> 264 Susana MonsĂł 0691260761 Julia 0 to-read 3.47 2024 Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
author: Susana MonsĂł
name: Julia
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> No Kidding 62794933 NO KIDDING is a slice of life modern feminist graphic novel with a humorous take on a serious subject and a woman’s right to choose.

Jane, 35 years old, doesn't want to be a mother. Lucy did not plan on having a kid... But became pregnant. What is she going to do?

It's the story of every woman refusing political correctness and diktats of the biological clock... Loaded with lots of humor and sarcasm and strong examples of woman making choices for their own bodies!

Written by Vero Cazot (About Betty’s Boob) with art by superstar Marguerite Sauvage, drawing as Madeleine Martin (her secret identity), NO KIDDING is a journey into the heart, mind and soul of these women opting out of motherhood and how they find their place in a world full of children and laws about their bodies.]]> 108 Véro Cazot 0999276670 Julia 0 to-read 3.92 2022 No Kidding
author: VĂ©ro Cazot
name: Julia
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner]]> 18775327
Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband T.J. and their toddler Daniel holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation, performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, counseling grieving relatives. Working Stiff chronicles Judy's two years of training, taking readers behind the police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the Big Apple, including a firsthand account of the events of September 11, the subsequent anthrax bio-terrorism attack, and the disastrous crash of American Airlines flight 587.

Lively, action-packed, and loaded with mordant wit, Working Stiff offers a firsthand account of daily life in one of America's most arduous professions, and the unexpected challenges of shuttling between the domains of the living and the dead. The body never lies, and through the murders, accidents, and suicides that land on her table, Dr. Melinek lays bare the truth behind the glamorized depictions of autopsy work on shows like CSI and Law and Order to reveal the secret story of the real morgue.]]> 258 Judy Melinek 1476727252 Julia 2 death-dying, memoir 4.23 2014 Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
author: Judy Melinek
name: Julia
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2014
rating: 2
read at: 2024/09/29
date added: 2024/09/30
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]]> <![CDATA[Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love]]> 44169245
NPR'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

INDIE BESTSELLER

GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY





A laugh-and-cry-out-loud memoir from the beloved star of Netflix’s Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness

Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey.

The truth is, it hasn’t always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy.

Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix’s hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a small Midwestern town that didn’t understand why he was so…over the top. From choreographed carpet figure skating routines to the unavoidable fact that he was Just. So. Gay., Jonathan was an easy target and endured years of judgement, ridicule and trauma—yet none of it crushed his uniquely effervescent spirit.

Over the Top uncovers the pain and passion it took to end up becoming the model of self-love and acceptance that Jonathan is today. In this revelatory, raw, and rambunctious memoir, Jonathan shares never-before-told secrets and reveals sides of himself that the public has never seen. JVN fans may think they know the man behind the stiletto heels, the crop tops, and the iconic sayings, but there’s much more to him than meets the Queer Eye.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll come away knowing that no matter how broken or lost you may be, you’re a Kelly Clarkson song, you’re strong, and you’ve got this.]]> 276 Jonathan Van Ness 0062906399 Julia 3 lgbtqia, memoir 4.28 2019 Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
author: Jonathan Van Ness
name: Julia
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2021/01/23
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: lgbtqia, memoir
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]]> Let Me Hear a Rhyme 36285129 InĚýthis striking new novel by the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly and Monday’s Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive.

Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was Things done changed. But that doesn’t mean that Quadir and Jarrell are cool letting their best friend Steph’s music lie forgotten under his bed after he’s murdered—not when his rhymes could turn any Bed Stuy corner into a party.

With the help of Steph’s younger sister Jasmine, they come up with a plan to promote Steph’s music under a new rap the Architect. Soon, everyone wants a piece of him. When his demo catches the attention of a hotheaded music label rep, the trio must prove Steph’s talent from beyond the grave.

As the pressure of keeping their secret grows, Quadir, Jarrell, and Jasmine are forced to confront the truth about what happened to Steph. Only, each has something to hide. And with everything riding on Steph’s fame, they need to decide what they stand for or lose all that they’ve worked so hard to hold on to—including each other.

"Jackson scores a bullseye with her passionate homage to Black city life in the late â€�90s."Ěý(Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")
]]> 384 Tiffany D. Jackson 0062840347 Julia 3 ya 4.13 2019 Let Me Hear a Rhyme
author: Tiffany D. Jackson
name: Julia
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2022/03/06
date added: 2024/09/27
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]]> <![CDATA[My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut]]> 21473002
One day, sad cubicle dweller and otherwise bored New York transplant Hannah Hart decided, as a joke, to make a fake cooking show for her friend back in California. She turned on the camera, pulled out some bread and cheese, and then, as one does, started drinking. (Doesn't everyone cook with a spoon in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other?) The video went viral and an online sensation was born.

My Drunk Kitchen includes recipes, stories, full color photos, and drawings to inspire your own culinary adventures in tipsy cooking. It is also a showcase for Hannah Hart's great comedic voice. Hannah offers key drink recommendations, cooking tips (like, remember to turn the oven off when you go to bed) and shares never-before-seen recipes such

The Hartwich (Knowledge is ingenuity! Learn from the past!)Can Bake (Inventing things is hard! You don't have to start from scratch!)Latke Shotkas (Plan ahead to avoid a night of dread!)Tiny Sandwiches (Size doesn't matter! Aim to satisfy.)Saltine Nachos (It's not about resources! It's about being resourceful.)This is a book for anyone who believes they have what it takes to make a soufflé for the holiday party and show up the person who apparently has nothing better to do than bake things from scratch. It also recommends the drink you'll need to accompany any endeavor of this magnitude. In the end, My Drunk Kitchen may not be your go-to guide for your next dinner party . . . but it will make you laugh and drink . . . I mean think . . . about life.]]> 243 Hannah Hart 0062293044 Julia 0 to-read 3.73 2014 My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut
author: Hannah Hart
name: Julia
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> Over You 19192350
These days, Max is the go-to guru for heartbroken high-school girls all over NYC. But when Hugo shows up in her neighborhood, suddenly Max is so busy trying to avoid her own ex that she isn't able to help anyone else with theirs. As Hugo invades her life all over again, Max's carefully controlled world starts to unravel. With her clients' hearts hanging in the balance, Max will have to do the seemingly get over her ex once and for all.]]> 288 Emma McLaughlin 0062190237 Julia 3 3.53 2012 Over You
author: Emma McLaughlin
name: Julia
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2012/07/06
date added: 2024/09/23
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]]> Orange Is the New Black 6314763 322 Piper Kerman 0385523386 Julia 3 memoir 3.71 2010 Orange Is the New Black
author: Piper Kerman
name: Julia
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/17
date added: 2024/09/18
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]]> Where We Belong 15770511
For the precocious and determined Kirby, the encounter will spur a process of discovery that ushers her across the threshold of adulthood, forcing her to re-evaluate her family and future in a wise and bittersweet light. As the two women embark on a journey to find the one thing missing in their lives, each will come to recognize that where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.]]> 383 Emily Giffin Julia 2 4.08 2004 Where We Belong
author: Emily Giffin
name: Julia
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2004
rating: 2
read at: 2012/07/31
date added: 2024/09/13
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I am not even all the way done with this book but it's so draggy and intent on mundane details that it feels like a chore to read. The premise is nothing novel, the characters aren't really anything special, and no new astounding revelations seem to be gleaned. I will finish it in the hope of some satisfying ending, but I've already accepted the inevitable disappointment. Oh, well, what did I really expect?
]]> The Only One Left 62703226 At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life

It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer�I want to tell you everything.

“It wasn’t me,� Lenora said
But she’s the only one not dead

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.]]> 383 Riley Sager 0593183223 Julia 0 to-read 4.12 2023 The Only One Left
author: Riley Sager
name: Julia
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Goodbye: A Story of Suicide 52864795
A thirteen year old should be enjoying life, planning her future, anticipating the joys to come. Instead, and sadly for all who knew her, Hailee Joy Lamberth, chose a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Hailee was an A student, bubbling with enthusiasm and love for life. She danced, wrote poems, and attended classes for gifted students. She loved playing with her little brother, Jacob. They’d play hide and seek and she’d always hide in the same place so that Jacob would find her.

But her favorite interaction with Jacob was when they rode the Ferris wheel together and got stuck at the top. Jacob was afraid, but Hailee reassured him. “We’re practically in heaven,� she tells him. “Well if we die,� Jacob says, “At least we’ll be together.�

When she was twelve years old, the bullying began.

First it was a boy in math class who seemed to have a crush on her. When she rebuffed him, he started sending her mean notes, calling her names, and spreading rumors about her.

Then it was a girl in P.E. who would crash into her when no one was looking.

Hailee tried to avoid the bullies. She decided to drop out of the math class. She made excuses to her parents in order to escape, and her parents believed her. They didn’t know that her life was becoming unbearable.

By the end of the school year, Hailee had begun to cut herself. It was her way of coping with the constant degradation. She overachieved in school in order to keep her parents from asking too many questions. A kid who is bullied often becomes an expert liar.

In seventh grade, the bullying increased, growing like a cancer. Hailee kept up appearances to protect her parents and brother, but inside she was suffering. Two days after her thirteenth birthday, she succumbed to the pain.

Hailee’s parents have decided to not allow her death to be in vain. By working with Zuiker Press to tell Hailee’s story as if she were able to tell it herself, they hope reach out to other young people in crisis, and show them that they do have options -- and to prevent them from bringing the excruciating pain of suicide to their families.

Their hope is that by sharing Hailee’s story, they may prevent another young person from making a fatal choice.

Goodbye: A Story of Suicide is the eighth in a series of graphic novels written by young adults for their peers.]]> 88 Hailee Joy Lamberth 1947378279 Julia 2 2.88 Goodbye: A Story of Suicide
author: Hailee Joy Lamberth
name: Julia
average rating: 2.88
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]]> <![CDATA[The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories]]> 99300
Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naĂŻve servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; "Mr. Peebles' Heart," a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and three other outstanding stories.

These charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women � and how they might be improved.

Collects:
—The Yellow Wallpaper
—Three Thanksgivings
—The Cottagette
—TłÜ°ů˛Ô±đ»ĺ
—Making a Change
—If I Were a Man
—Mr. Peebles' Heart]]> 129 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 0486298574 Julia 4 4.05 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
name: Julia
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1892
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve]]> 195791316 256 Drew Afualo 0374614059 Julia 0 currently-reading 4.32 2024 Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
author: Drew Afualo
name: Julia
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image]]> 60320132 Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher’s humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journey from being anxious and unhappy to learning to love herself as she is.

"I’m proud of the person I’ve become because I fought to become her." At the age of thirty Siobhán Gallagher looks back on her teenage years struggling with anxiety and diet culture, desperate to become a beautiful, savvy, and slim adult. As an adult she realizes she hasn’t turned out the way she’d imagined, but through the hard work of self-reflection—cut with plenty of humor—Gallagher brings readers along on her journey to self-acceptance and self-love.]]> 308 Siobhan Gallagher 1524867683 Julia 5 4.27 2024 Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image
author: Siobhan Gallagher
name: Julia
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/08/26
date added: 2024/08/26
shelves: memoir, mental-health, graphic-novels
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]]> <![CDATA[The Reappearance of Rachel Price]]> 182484360
Lights. Camera. Lies.

18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.

But the case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. And then the impossible happens. Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again.

Rachel has an unbelievable story about what happened to her. Unbelievable, because Bel isn’t sure it’s real. If Rachel is lying, then where has she been all this time? And � could she be dangerous? With the cameras still rolling, Bel must uncover the truth about her mother, and find out why Rachel Price really came back from the dead . . .

From world-renowned author Holly Jackson comes a mind-blowing masterpiece about one girl’s search for the truth, and the terror in finding out who your family really is.]]> 438 Holly Jackson 0593374207 Julia 0 4.09 2024 The Reappearance of Rachel Price
author: Holly Jackson
name: Julia
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at: 2024/08/20
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]]> <![CDATA[The Stokes Birdfeeder Book: An Easy Guide to Attracting, Identifying and Understanding Your Feeder Birds]]> 19220301
Now you can start to enjoy the birds at your feeder more than you ever have before! This book will help you. Don't let another day go by without starting on this path to a richer experience at your feeders.

Also included is your own Bird Feeder Journal.]]> 140 Donald W. Stokes 0316049565 Julia 4 nature 3.93 The Stokes Birdfeeder Book: An Easy Guide to Attracting, Identifying and Understanding Your Feeder Birds
author: Donald W. Stokes
name: Julia
average rating: 3.93
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rating: 4
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date added: 2024/08/07
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]]> <![CDATA[Picture Day (The Brinkley Yearbooks, #1)]]> 62926934
Seventh-grader Viv never looks forward to picture day. It’s just another day where she wears a boring braid and no one notices her. (Her two best friends, Milo and Al, don’t count, of course.)Ěý

But enough is enough. This year, she’s taking matters into her own hands. Literally. Viv grabs a pair of scissors, her phone for live-streaming, and, well, bye-bye braid.

Suddenly Viv is an over-night influencer at Brinkley Middle School. Everyone wants her help planning their next big moment—from haircuts, to dance proposals, activist rallies and mathlete championships. She hardly even has time for her friends anymore. It’s exactly how she dreamed of reinventing herself…right?

In the tradition of modern classics like Vera Brosgol's Be Prepared , Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward ,Ěýand Kayla Miller's Click , Picture Day brings answers to perennial questions of what it means to be true to yourself—and a true friend.]]> 288 Sarah Sax 0593306899 Julia 0 to-read 3.78 2023 Picture Day (The Brinkley Yearbooks, #1)
author: Sarah Sax
name: Julia
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Rouge 157184735 From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep?

For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.

Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.]]> 383 Mona Awad Julia 0 to-read 3.54 2023 Rouge
author: Mona Awad
name: Julia
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Exposed 8320987 In the dim light of the darkroom, I'm alone, but not for long.
As white turns to gray, Kate is with me.
The background of the dance studio blurred, so the focus is all on her
legs extended in a perfect soaring split.
The straight line to my squiggle,
my forever-best friend.

Sixteen-year-old Liz is Photogirl—sharp, focused and confident in what she sees through her camera lens. Confident that she and Kate will be best friends forever.

But everything changes in one blurry night. Suddenly, Kate is avoiding her, and people are looking the other way when she passes in the halls. As the aftershocks from a startling accusation rip through Liz's world, everything she thought she knew about photography, family, friendship and herself shifts out of focus. What happens when the picture you see no longer makes sense? What do you do when you may lose everything you love most? Told in stunning, searingly raw free verse, Exposed is Kimberly Marcus's gut-wrenching, riveting debut and will appeal to fans of Ellen Hopkins, Laurie Halse Anderson and Virginia Euwer Wolff.]]> 255 Kimberly Marcus 0375866930 Julia 1 ya 3.73 2011 Exposed
author: Kimberly Marcus
name: Julia
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2011
rating: 1
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]]> A Stranger in the House 33984056
He looks at her, concerned. “How do you feel?� She wants to say, Terrified. Instead, she says, with a faint smile, “Glad to be home.�

Karen and Tom Krupp are happy—they’ve got a lovely home in upstate New York, they’re practically newlyweds, and they have no kids to interrupt their comfortable life together. But one day, Tom returns home to find Karen has vanished—her car’s gone and it seems she left in a rush. She even left her purse—complete with phone and ID—behind.

There's a knock on the door—the police are there to take Tom to the hospital where his wife has been admitted. She had a car accident, and lost control as she sped through the worst part of town.

The accident has left Karen with a concussion and a few scrapes. Still, she’s mostly okay—except that she can’t remember what she was doing or where she was when she crashed. The cops think her memory loss is highly convenient, and they suspect she was up to no good.

Karen returns home with Tom, determined to heal and move on with her life. Then she realizes something’s been moved. Something’s not quite right. Someone’s been in her house. And the police won't stop asking questions.

Because in this house, everyone’s a stranger. Everyone has something they’d rather keep hidden. Something they might even kill to keep quiet.]]> 305 Shari Lapena 073522112X Julia 2 3.66 2017 A Stranger in the House
author: Shari Lapena
name: Julia
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2017
rating: 2
read at: 2024/07/28
date added: 2024/07/28
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]]> It Was Me All Along 20484545
On her twentieth birthday, Andie Mitchell stepped on the scale and discovered that she weighed nearly 300 pounds. At 5' 9"--even knowing that she was big and hating herself for it--she was stunned. How had she gotten there? Without following wild diet trends, she lost 135 pounds over thirteen months and has kept it off for six years.

It Was Me All Along shares the at times heartbreaking, yet ultimately uplifting and motivating, story of how Andie kicked her habit of binge eating, which she developed during a traumatic childhood, and developed a healthy relationship with food, which she still loves to cook and enjoy.

Her story is at once familiar and inspiring to millions who have struggled with weight and self-image issues. Andie is a powerful motivator who bravely bares all to help others.]]> 240 Andie Mitchell 0770433243 Julia 3 memoir 3.74 2015 It Was Me All Along
author: Andie Mitchell
name: Julia
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2024/06/24
date added: 2024/06/24
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]]> The Deep Dark 195263612 From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, love, loss, and magic.

Everyone has secrets. Mags’s has teeth.

Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious responsibilities: caring for her ailing grandmother; working a part-time job; clandestine makeouts with a girl who has a boyfriend. And then there’s her secret, which pulls her into the basement each night, drains her of energy, and leaves her bleeding. A secret that could hurt and even kill if it ever got out -- like it did once before.

So Mags keeps her head down, isolated in her small desert community. That is, until her childhood friend Nessa comes back to town, bringing vivid memories of the past, an intoxicating glimpse of the future, and a secret of her own. Mags won’t get attached, of course. She’s always been strong enough to survive without anyone’s help.

But when the darkness starts to close in on them both, Mags will have to drag her secret into the daylight, and choose between risking everything... or having nothing left to lose.]]> 480 Molly Knox Ostertag 1338839993 Julia 0 to-read 4.32 2024 The Deep Dark
author: Molly Knox Ostertag
name: Julia
average rating: 4.32
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rating: 0
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]]> Home Is Where the Bodies Are 194020321
While going through their parents' belongings, the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos and decide to revisit those happier memories. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of. On screen, their father appears covered in blood. What follows is a dead body and a pact between their parents to get rid of it, before the video abruptly ends.

Beth, Nicole, and Michael must now decide whether to leave the past in the past or uncover the dark secret their mother took to her grave.]]> 256 Jeneva Rose Julia 3 thriller 3.77 2024 Home Is Where the Bodies Are
author: Jeneva Rose
name: Julia
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/06/13
date added: 2024/06/13
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]]> <![CDATA[High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life]]> 44767467
The memoir opens in the Florida women's prison where Tiffany was incarcerated for 180 days. The memoir flashes back in time to the events that led to Tiffany's imprisonment (during the time of her active addiction, Tiffany was dating and living with a cop), and moves forward to her eventual sobriety.]]> 384 Tiffany Jenkins 0593135938 Julia 4 4.15 2017 High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
author: Tiffany Jenkins
name: Julia
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/23
date added: 2024/05/25
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]]> None of This Is True 62334530
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.

But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.

Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?]]> 390 Lisa Jewell 1982179007 Julia 4 psychological-thriller 4.08 2023 None of This Is True
author: Lisa Jewell
name: Julia
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/14
date added: 2024/05/14
shelves: psychological-thriller
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]]> <![CDATA[This Is a Book for People Who Love Birds]]> 58684383 Full of bird watching basics, fun facts, and illustrated species profiles,ĚýThis Is a Book for People Who Love BirdsĚýis a joyful celebration of our feathered friends!

For seasoned spotters and backyard hobbyists alike, this charming guide offers an accessible look at the irresistible world of birding. Wildlife biologist and co-founder of Black Birders Week Danielle Belleny walks readers through the essentials of bird watching, from equipment to locations, offering new ideas for finding avian friends wherever you may be. Engaging profiles of North American bird species, from cardinals and blue jays to raptors and sea birds, are accompanied by whimsical illustrations sure to spark the imaginations of birders from coast to coast. Deeply researched and accessible to enthusiasts of all levels of experience,ĚýThis Is a Book for People Who Love BirdsĚýis an essential addition to every bird lover's field library.Ěý±Ő±Ő> 152 Danielle Belleny 0762475978 Julia 0 to-read 4.21 2022 This Is a Book for People Who Love Birds
author: Danielle Belleny
name: Julia
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> Rabbit Hole 125476780 Conspiracy theories from Reddit seduce a disaster-prone woman into an obsession with solving her older sister’s cold-case disappearance.

Ten years ago Theodora “Teddy� Angstrom’s older sister, Angie, went missing. Her case remains unsolved. Now Teddy’s father, Mark, has killed himself. Unbeknownst to Mark’s family, he had been active in a Reddit community fixated on Angie, and Teddy can’t help but fall down the same rabbit hole.

Teddy’s investigation quickly gets her in hot water with her gun-nut boyfriend, her long-lost half brother, and her colleagues at the prestigious high school where she teaches English. Further complicating matters is Teddy’s growing obsession with Mickey, a charming amateur sleuth who is eerily keen on helping her solve the case.

A biting critique of the internet’s voyeurism, Rabbit Hole is an outrageous and heartrending character study of a mind twisted by grief—and a page-turning mystery as addictive as a late-night Reddit binge.]]> 374 Kate Brody 1641294876 Julia 1 3.03 2024 Rabbit Hole
author: Kate Brody
name: Julia
average rating: 3.03
book published: 2024
rating: 1
read at: 2024/04/17
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]]> Forgive Me My Salt 32822644 68 Brenna Twohy 1539736199 Julia 0 to-read 4.54 Forgive Me My Salt
author: Brenna Twohy
name: Julia
average rating: 4.54
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]]> Nothing Is Okay 36479763 Nothing is Okay is the second full-length collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously deconstructs the lies that we were taught about our bodies and our beings, and builds new ways of viewing ourselves. As she delves into queerness, feminism, fatness, dating, and race, Wiley molds these topics into a punching critique of culture and a celebration of self. A fat positive activist, Wiley's work soars and challenges the bounds of bodies and hearts, and the ways we carry them.]]> 96 Rachel Wiley 1943735301 Julia 3 poetry 4.13 2018 Nothing Is Okay
author: Rachel Wiley
name: Julia
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2018
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass: The Graphic Novel]]> 83823761 Newbery Medalist Meg Medina returns to her powerful YA novel about school bullying with a dynamic graphic-novel edition adapted and illustrated by Mel Valentine Vargas.

It’s the beginning of sophomore year, and Piedad “Piddy� Sanchez is having a hard time adjusting to her new high school. Things don’t get any easier when Piddy learns that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui is, never mind what she’s done to piss her off. Rumor has it that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up, shakes her stuff when she walks, and isn’t Latina enough with her white skin, good grades, and no accent. And Yaqui isn’t kidding around, so Piddy better watch her back. At first, Piddy is more concerned with learning about the father she’s never met, navigating her rocky relationship with her mom, and staying in touch with her best friend, Mitzi. But when the harassment escalates, avoiding Yaqui and her gang takes over Piddy’s life. Is there any way for Piddy to survive without closing herself off from those who care about her—or running away? More relevant than ever a decade after its initial publication, Mel Valentine Vargas’s graphic novel adaptation of Meg Medina’s ultimately empowering story is poised to be discovered by a new generation of readers.]]> 288 Mel Valentine Vargas 1536234737 Julia 0 3.93 Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass: The Graphic Novel
author: Mel Valentine Vargas
name: Julia
average rating: 3.93
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]]> Radium Girls 59749624
The proud holders of well-paying jobs at the local watch factory, these working-class young women gain their nickname from the fine dusting of glowing, radioactive powder that clings to their clothes after every shift painting watch dials. The soft, greenish glow even stains their lips and tongues, which they use to point the fine brushes used in their work. It’s perfectly harmless . . . or so claims the watch manufacturer.

When teeth start falling out, followed by jawbones, the dial painters become the unprepared vanguard on the frontlines of the burgeoning workers� rights movement. Desperate for compensation and acknowledgement from the company that has doomed them, the Ghost Girls must fight, not just for their own lives but the future of every woman to follow them.

A stunning graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story.]]> 134 Cy. 1945820993 Julia 0 to-read 3.89 2020 Radium Girls
author: Cy.
name: Julia
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)]]> 41766537
In poems that dig deep into sexuality, acceptance of the body, survival of trauma, and learning to love yourself in spite of everything telling you not to, Baird's voice is a rich addition to her generation. Searing, soaring, and heartbreaking, If My Body Could Speak balances the softness of femininity with the sharpness that girls are forced to become.

Includes poems such as "Girl Code 101", "When the Fat Girl Gets Skinny", and "Pocket-Sized Feminism" that have been watched by millions online.]]> 84 Blythe Baird 1943735476 Julia 3 poetry 4.35 2019 If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
author: Blythe Baird
name: Julia
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/31
date added: 2024/04/01
shelves: poetry
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]]> Mall Goth 101127469
Liv Holme is not exactly thrilled to be moving to a new town with her mother. After all, high school can be brutal, even more so when you’re a fifteen-year-old, bisexual goth. But Liv is determined to be who she is, bullies or not. Still, being the new kid and the only out student brings her a lot of unwelcome attention, and Liv flounders in her search for community. The only person who makes time for her is one of teachers, but Liv isn’t sure how to feel about the way he behaves toward her.

Thankfully, she’s found the perfect the mall. Under its fluorescent lights, Liv feels far away from her parents� strained marriage and the peers who don’t understand her. Amid the bright storefronts, food court smell, and anonymous shoppers, Liv is safely one of the crowd and can enjoy the feeling of calling the shots in her own life for once.

With the help of her suburban refuge, Liv sets off on a journey of self-acceptance and learns to navigate the ups and downs of high school and to recognize true friendship.]]> 256 Kate Leth 1534476946 Julia 3 3.87 2023 Mall Goth
author: Kate Leth
name: Julia
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/28
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]]> <![CDATA[Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)]]> 53344030
Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They've finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick's house ... But with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?

By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.

Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, and sexual references.]]> 336 Alice Oseman 1444957651 Julia 4 graphic-novels, lgbtqia, ya 4.47 2023 Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)
author: Alice Oseman
name: Julia
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/23
date added: 2024/03/23
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]]> All the Living and the Dead 58724737
We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we’re so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look?

Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.

Through Campbell’s incisive and candid interviews with these people who see death every day, she Why would someone choose this kind of life? Does it change you as a person? And are we missing something vital by letting death remain hidden? A dazzling work of cultural criticism, All the Living and the Dead weaves together reportage with memoir, history, and philosophy, to offer readers a fascinating look into the psychology of Western death.]]> 288 Hayley Campbell 1250281849 Julia 5 death-dying 4.25 2022 All the Living and the Dead
author: Hayley Campbell
name: Julia
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/05/07
date added: 2024/03/22
shelves: death-dying
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]]> <![CDATA[Pet That Cat!: A Handbook for Making Feline Friends]]> 59388026 A fun and informative handbook for young readers on understanding and caring for our feline friends from the kid behind the popular Twitter account I’ve Pet That Cat! Pet That Cat! A Handbook for Making Feline Friends is an illustrated guide to understanding, befriending, and caring for cats by Nigel Kidd and his mom, Rachel Braunigan.ĚýĚýThis fact-filled and fun guide ĚýĚýĚý•ĚýA guide to cat body language—what does it mean when your cat’s tail looks like a question mark or is puffed up? ĚýĚýĚý•ĚýHelpful tips on how to safely interact with new feline friends. Let them approach first! ĚýĚýĚý•ĚýAdvice for adopting and caring for your own cat. Choose the perfect cat for you! ĚýĚýĚý•ĚýStories of cats throughout history and myth-busting facts—did you know every cat has a unique noseprint? ĚýĚýĚý•ĚýA cat personality quiz and your very own Cat Tracker to record all the feline friends you meet! This kid-friendly handbook pairs charming illustrations with an interactive format. With step-by-step guides, fascinating stories, and tips from cat experts and Nigel, Pet That Cat! is a must-have handbook for feline fans of all ages.And for dog-lovers and kids curious about dogs, check out Pet That Dog! A Handbook for Making Four-Legged Friends.]]> 130 Nigel Kidd 1683693159 Julia 5 young-readers, tweens 4.46 2022 Pet That Cat!: A Handbook for Making Feline Friends
author: Nigel Kidd
name: Julia
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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]]> Tales from the Ant World 50191518 Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants, from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest.

“Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony,� writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world’s most beloved scientists, “their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg.� In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilson takes us on a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico’s Dauphin Island and even his parent’s overgrown backyard, thrillingly relating his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with over 15,000 ant species.

Animating his scientific observations with illuminating personal stories, Wilson hones in on twenty-five ant species to explain how these genetically superior creatures talk, smell, and taste, and more significantly, how they fight to determine who is dominant. Wryly observing that “males are little more than flying sperm missiles� or that ants send their “little old ladies into battle,� Wilson eloquently relays his brushes with fire, army, and leafcutter ants, as well as more exotic species. Among them are the very rare Matabele, Africa’s fiercest warrior ants, whose female hunters can carry up to fifteen termites in their jaw (and, as Wilson reports from personal experience, have an incredibly painful stinger); Costa Rica’s Basiceros, the slowest of all ants; and New Caledonia’s Bull Ants, the most endangered of them all, which Wilson discovered in 2011 after over twenty years of presumed extinction.

Richly illustrated throughout with depictions of ant species by Kristen Orr, as well as photos from Wilsons� expeditions throughout the world, Tales from the Ant World is a fascinating, if not occasionally hair-raising, personal account by one of our greatest scientists and a necessary volume for any lover of the natural world.]]> 213 Edward O. Wilson 1631495577 Julia 0 nature 4.08 2020 Tales from the Ant World
author: Edward O. Wilson
name: Julia
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2023/04/05
date added: 2024/03/22
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]]> I Was Here 18879761 Cody and Meg were inseparable.
Two peas in a pod.
Until . . . they weren’t anymore.
Ěý
When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg’s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.
Ěý
I Was HereĚýis Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.]]> 270 Gayle Forman 0451471474 Julia 3 ya 3.74 2015 I Was Here
author: Gayle Forman
name: Julia
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2023/04/25
date added: 2024/03/22
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]]> Sincerely, Harriet 40753069
-- "Journal"]]> 176 Sarah Winifred Searle 154154272X Julia 2 tweens, young-readers 3.48 2019 Sincerely, Harriet
author: Sarah Winifred Searle
name: Julia
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2019
rating: 2
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]]> As the Crow Flies 29915104 276 Melanie Gillman Julia 2 lgbtqia, ya, graphic-novels 3.64 2017 As the Crow Flies
author: Melanie Gillman
name: Julia
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2017
rating: 2
read at: 2019/09/27
date added: 2024/03/22
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]]> Grown 55353729 1 Tiffany D. Jackson 1799941191 Julia 3 ya 4.55 2020 Grown
author: Tiffany D. Jackson
name: Julia
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2020/11/03
date added: 2024/03/22
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]]> Unpregnant 40599820
Veronica needs an abortion, but the closest place she can legally get one is over nine hundred miles away—and Veronica doesn’t have a car. Too ashamed to ask her friends or family for help, Veronica turns to the one person she believes won’t judge her: Bailey Butler, Jefferson High’s own little black cloud of anger and snark—and Veronica’s ex-best friend. Once on the road, Veronica quickly remembers nothing with Bailey is ever simple and that means two days of stolen cars, shotguns, crazed ex-boyfriends, truck stop strippers with pro-life agendas, and a limo driver named Bob. But the pain and betrayal of their broken friendship can’t be outrun. When their fighting leads to a brutal moment of truth, Bailey abandons Veronica. Now Veronica must risk everything in order to repair the hurt she’s caused]]> 310 Jenni Hendriks Julia 3 ya Ěý
I fluctuated with how I felt about this book. Sometimes situations were a touch unrealistic (securing the appointment via a 24-hour hotline just hours before, an aggressively anti-abortion stripper that attempts to kidnap/intervene(?), Veronica's relentless boyfriend who trails the girls the entirety of the their trip, etc.) and characters were a bit trope-y but I was still engaged and eager to see how things turned out. Readers who are searching for solace or depth in something that examines the gamut of emotions that abortion can cause (positive and/or negative) may want to look elsewhere. Truly the focus of the book is the girls rekindling their friendship; the actual procedure is completely glossed over. One moment Veronica is being led into a room by a nurse, the next she's leaving the clinic. Overall, it's a goofy and adventurous YA novel with some heart but it ultimately doesn't leave much of an impact.Ěý±Ő±Ő> 3.76 2019 Unpregnant
author: Jenni Hendriks
name: Julia
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2020/09/23
date added: 2024/03/22
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Popular, good girl honor student Veronica never once grapples with what she wants to do as a result of her unwanted pregnancy; the toughest part is just how to get to a clinic to obtain an abortion. Living in bible belt Missouri, seemingly her only option is to travel 900 miles away to Albuquerque, New Mexico as she is a minor seeking the procedure without parental consent. Although she is confident in her decision, she can't exactly tell her family or straight-laced friends. Without a car of her own, she resigns herself to the mercy of brazen misfit and once best friend, now relative stranger Bailey, and the odd pair set off for a weekend road trip. Enduring an outlandishĚýseries of events, the girls learn to rely on one another and ultimately discover that despite their initial drifting apart and differences they still have an immeasurable bond.
Ěý
I fluctuated with how I felt about this book. Sometimes situations were a touch unrealistic (securing the appointment via a 24-hour hotline just hours before, an aggressively anti-abortion stripper that attempts to kidnap/intervene(?), Veronica's relentless boyfriend who trails the girls the entirety of the their trip, etc.) and characters were a bit trope-y but I was still engaged and eager to see how things turned out. Readers who are searching for solace or depth in something that examines the gamut of emotions that abortion can cause (positive and/or negative) may want to look elsewhere. Truly the focus of the book is the girls rekindling their friendship; the actual procedure is completely glossed over. One moment Veronica is being led into a room by a nurse, the next she's leaving the clinic. Overall, it's a goofy and adventurous YA novel with some heart but it ultimately doesn't leave much of an impact.Ěý
]]> No Ivy League 39974869 216 Hazel Newlevant 1549303058 Julia 3 graphic-novels 3.10 2019 No Ivy League
author: Hazel Newlevant
name: Julia
average rating: 3.10
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2020/12/10
date added: 2024/03/22
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]]> <![CDATA[Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies]]> 52672113 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people—the source of some of our most revealing questions about death�Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind.]]> 232 Caitlin Doughty 0393358496 Julia 4 death-dying 4.15 2019 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
author: Caitlin Doughty
name: Julia
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2021/02/23
date added: 2024/03/22
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]]> Ramona Forever (Ramona, #7) 91249
Through all the happiness and confusion, and some small moments of sadness, too, Ramona tries hard to be pleasant and helpful. Whether she's pleasant or pesty, brave or blunderful, she's always wonderful Ramona--forever!
--back cover]]> 150 Beverly Cleary 038072801X Julia 4 young-readers 4.07 1984 Ramona Forever (Ramona, #7)
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Julia
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1984
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1)]]> 91244 160 Beverly Cleary 0192750968 Julia 4 young-readers 4.02 1955 Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1)
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Julia
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1955
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Perfect Marriage (Perfect, #1)]]> 53450790 Would you defend your husband if he was accused of killing his mistress?

Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. At 33 years old, she is a named partner at her firm and life is going exactly how she planned.

The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He is a struggling writer who has had little success in his career. He begins to tire of his and Sarah’s relationship as she is constantly working.

Out in the secluded woods, at Adam and Sarah’s second home, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers.

Then, one morning everything changes. Adam is arrested for Kelly’s murder. She had been found stabbed to death in Adam and Sarah’s second home.

Sarah soon finds herself playing the defender for her own husband, a man accused of murdering his mistress.

But is Adam guilty or is he innocent?]]> 337 Jeneva Rose 1913419657 Julia 1 psychological-thriller 3.90 2020 The Perfect Marriage (Perfect, #1)
author: Jeneva Rose
name: Julia
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2020
rating: 1
read at: 2023/08/31
date added: 2024/03/22
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One star for me, not because it was terribly written (though it does slog on in places and inner monologue can seem silly and unrealistic) but because it was just so....meh? Lacked any real impact for me.
]]> Lockdown 6609713
It seems as if the only progress that's going on at Progress juvenile facility is moving from juvy jail to real jail. Reese wants out early, but is he supposed to just sit back and let his friend Toon get jumped? Then Reese gets a second chance when he's picked for the work program at a senior citizens' home. He doesn't mean to keep messing up, but it's not so easy, at Progress or in life. One of the residents, Mr. Hooft, gives him a particularly hard time. If he can convince Mr. Hooft that he's a decent person, not a criminal, maybe he'll be able to convince himself.

Acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers offers an honest story about finding a way to make it without getting lost in the shuffle.]]> 256 Walter Dean Myers 0061214809 Julia 3 ya 3.77 2010 Lockdown
author: Walter Dean Myers
name: Julia
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/03
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]]> Ten Days in a Mad-House 58438521 Beautifully adapted and rendered through piercing illustrations by acclaimed creators Brad Ricca and Courtney Sieh, Nellie Bly's complete, true-to-life 19th-century investigation of Blackwell Asylum captures a groundbreaking moment in history and reveals a haunting and timely glimpse at the starting point for conversations on mental health.

"I said I could and I would. And I did."

While working for Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper in 1887, Nellie Bly began an undercover investigation into the local Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell Island. Intent on seeing what life was like on the inside, Bly fooled trained physicians into thinking she was insane—a task too easily achieved—and had herself committed. In her ten days at the asylum, Bly witnessed horrifying conditions: the food was inedible, the women were forced into labor for the staff, the nurses and doctors were cruel or indifferent, and many of the women held there had no mental disorder of any kind.


Now adapted into graphic novel form by Brad� Ricca and vividly rendered with beautiful and haunting illustrations by Courtney Sieh, Bly's bold venture is given new life and meaning. Her fearless investigation into the living conditions at the Blackwell Asylum forever changed the field of journalism. A timely reminder to take notice of forgotten populations, Ten Days in a Mad-House warns us what happens when we look away.]]> 160 Brad Ricca 1982140658 Julia 3 3.74 2022 Ten Days in a Mad-House
author: Brad Ricca
name: Julia
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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]]> Swim Team 58842729
With Etta's training and a lot of hard work, Bree suddenly finds her swim-crazed community counting on her to turn the school's failing team around. But that's easier said than done, especially when their rival, the prestigious Holyoke Prep, has everything they need to leave the Mighty Manatees in their wake.

Can Bree defy the odds and guide her team to a state championship, or have the Manatees swum their last lap--for good?]]> 248 Johnnie Christmas 0063056763 Julia 3 4.24 2022 Swim Team
author: Johnnie Christmas
name: Julia
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)]]> 58719265
Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will ultimately realize this... but she's going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it not funny at all) to get to that point. Lewis is trying to tell her this... but she's refusing to listen.

In WELCOME TO ST. HELL, author-illustrator Lewis Hancox takes readers on the hilarious, heartbreaking, and healing path he took to make it past trauma, confusion, hurt, and dubious fashion choices in order to become the man he was meant to be. It's a remarkable, groundbreaking graphic memoir from an unmistakably bold new voice in comics.]]> 304 Lewis Hancox 1338824430 Julia 4 comics, lgbtqia, memoir 4.28 2022 Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)
author: Lewis Hancox
name: Julia
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/21
date added: 2024/03/21
shelves: comics, lgbtqia, memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[Junk Film: Why Bad Movies Matter]]> 122781112
Entire libraries of criticism study good art. Who studies bad art?

For the most part, bad movies have been buried by their creators, or have circulated in midnight screenings and Reddit threads. They've been used for humor by Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Red Letter Media, and presented as outrageous spectacle by critics and commentators. Rarely have bad movies been studied.

JUNK FILM's thirteen essays explore the failures of specific works created between the 1940s and the 2010s. Each demonstrates a different kind of failure, from mixing incompatible genres (Cop Rock) to stacking a screenplay with sociopaths (Staying Alive). The book uses a few basic theses about bad film and television to unpack these failures. Importantly, it shows what students of film can learn from bad movies: how to make art that works via watching art that doesn't.

Junk Film bridges film scholarship and pop culture criticism with wit and warmth.]]> 269 Katharine Coldiron Julia 0 to-read 3.69 Junk Film: Why Bad Movies Matter
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]]> The Chaos of Longing 35489040 The Chaos of LongingĚýis a brutally honestĚýexploration of desire—physical, emotional, and spiritual. This revised and expanded edition contains over 50 pages of all-new material.

Organized in four sections â€� Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany –ĚýK.Y. Robinson's debut poetry collectionĚýexploresĚýwhat it is toĚýwantĚýinĚýspite ofĚýtrauma, shame, injustice, andĚýmental illness. It is one survivor's powerful testimony, and a love letter "to thoseĚýwho lie awakeĚýburning."Ěý±Ő±Ő> 160 K.Y. Robinson 1449492037 Julia 0 to-read 3.60 2016 The Chaos of Longing
author: K.Y. Robinson
name: Julia
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2016
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]]> <![CDATA[I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both]]> 185767233 Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the slipperiness of sanity

Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City, I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both is an immersive journey into the life and mind of Khaki Oliver, who’s perennially trying to disappear into something: a codependent friendship, an ill-advised boyfriend, the punk scene, or simply, the ether. These days it’s a meaningless job and a comfortingly empty apartment. Then, after a decade of estrangement, she receives a letter from her former best friend. Fiona’s throwing a party for her newly adopted daughter and wants Khaki to join the celebration.

Khaki is equal parts terrified and tempted to reconnect. Their platonic love was confusing, all-consuming, and encouraged their worst impulses. While stalling her RSVP, Khaki starts crafting the perfect mixtape—revisiting memories of formative shows, failed romances, and the ups and downs of desire and denial—while weighing the risks and rewards of saying yes to Fiona again.

One song at a time, from 1980s hardcore to 2010s emo, the shared and separate contours of each woman’s mind come into focus. Will listening to the same old songs on repeat doom Khaki to a lonely life of arrested development? Or will hindsight help her regain her sense of self and pave a healthy path for the future, with or without Fiona?]]> 336 Mariah Stovall 1593767609 Julia 0 to-read 3.17 2024 I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both
author: Mariah Stovall
name: Julia
average rating: 3.17
book published: 2024
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]]> Nervosa 63340017 Unflinchingly honest and darkly humorous, Nervosa is a graphic memoir about disordered eating, chronic illness, and a profound relationship with hope.

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder. It is not a phase, a fad, or a choice. It is a debilitating illness manifested in a distorted relationship with food but that actually has more to do with issues of control. It is often a puzzle for doctors, therapists, parents, and friends. And so those who suffer from it are belittled, or tragically misunderstood, not only by society but by the healthcare system meant to treat it.

Nervosa is a no-holds-barred, richly textured portrait of one young woman’s experience. In her vividly imagined retelling, Hayley Gold lays bare a callous medical system seemingly disinterested in the very patients it is supposed to treat. And traces how her own life was irrevocably damaged by both the system and her own disorder. With brutal honesty and witty sarcastic humor, Gold offers a remarkably candid exploration of the search for hope in the darkness.]]> 230 Hayley Gold 1951491246 Julia 0 3.86 2023 Nervosa
author: Hayley Gold
name: Julia
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana]]> 15167 A Girl Named Zippy, the woman rising heroically from the couch is Zippy's mother, Delonda. After years of languorous existence, this oversized couch potato emerged from the den to pursue a higher education. Delonda was well read but in other ways seemed ill suited for college: This middle-aged, 260-pound coed had a husband who disapproved of the entire venture, no driver's license, and almost no money. Like its predecessor, She Got Up Off the Couch holds our attention with its sympathetic rendering of idiosyncratic family characters. Hilarious; heartbreaking; ultimately empowering.]]> 337 Haven Kimmel 074328500X Julia 3 essays, funny 4.06 2005 She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
author: Haven Kimmel
name: Julia
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/09
date added: 2024/03/09
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]]> <![CDATA[Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive]]> 39218350
Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it’s like to be in service to them. “I’d become a nameless ghost,� Stephanie writes about her relationship with her clients, many of whom do not know her from any other cleaner, but who she learns plenty about. As she begins to discover more about her clients� lives-their sadness and love, too-she begins to find hope in her own path.

Her writing as a journalist gives voice to the "servant" worker, and those pursuing the American Dream from below the poverty line. Maid is Stephanie’s story, but it’s not her alone..

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316505116 can be found here.]]> 289 Stephanie Land Julia 3 memoir 3.81 2019 Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
author: Stephanie Land
name: Julia
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2024/02/27
date added: 2024/02/27
shelves: memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are]]> 52041383 In the vein of Mindy Kaling, Ali Wong, and Amy Poehler, a collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more from the charming and wickedly funny creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Rachel Bloom has felt abnormal and out of place her whole life. In this exploration of what she thinks makes her "different," she's come to realize that a lot of people also feel this way; even people who she otherwise thought were "normal."

In a collection of laugh-out-loud funny essays, all told in the unique voice (sometimes singing voice) that made her a star; Rachel writes about everything from her love of Disney, OCD and depression, weirdness, and female friendships to the story of how she didn't poop in the toilet until she was four years old; Rachel's pieces are hilarious, smart, and infinitely relatable (except for the pooping thing).]]> 288 Rachel Bloom 1538745356 Julia 2 mental-health, funny, memoir 3.96 2020 I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
author: Rachel Bloom
name: Julia
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2020
rating: 2
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]]> This Is How I Disappear 56269293 An affecting glimpse into the ways millennials cope with mental health struggles

Clara’s at a breaking point. She’s got writer’s block, her friends ask a lot without giving much, her psychologist is useless, and her demanding publishing job leaves little time for self care. She seeks solace in the community around her, yet, while her friends provide support and comfort, she is often left feeling empty, unable to express an underlying depression that leaves her immobilized and stifles any attempts at completing her poetry collection. In This Is How I Disappear, Mirion Malle paints an empathetic portait of a young woman wrestling with psychological stress and the trauma following a sexual assault.

Malle displays frankness and a remarkable emotional intelligence as she explores depression, isolation, and self-harm in her expertly drawn novel. Her heroine battles an onslaught of painful emotions, and while Clara can provide consolation to those around her, she finds it difficult to bestow the same understanding on herself. Only when she allows her community to guide her toward self-love does she find relief.

Filled with twenty-first-century idioms and social media communication, This Is How I Disappear opens a window onto the lives of young people as they face a barrage of mental health hurdles. Scenes of sisterhood, fun nights out singing karaoke, and impromptu FaceTime therapy sessions show how this generation is coping, connecting, and healing together.]]> 208 Mirion Malle 1770464611 Julia 4 graphic-novels, mental-health 4.06 2020 This Is How I Disappear
author: Mirion Malle
name: Julia
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/02/13
date added: 2024/02/13
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]]> Such a Bad Influence 198509143
Hazel Davis is drifting: she’s stalled in her career, living in a city she hates, and less successful than her younger sister @evelyn, a lifestyle influencer. Evie came of age on the family YouTube channel after a viral video when she was five. Ten years older and spotlight-averse, Hazel managed to dodge the family business—so although she can barely afford her apartment, at least she made her own way.

Evie is eighteen now, with a multimillion-dollar career, but Hazel is still protective of her little sister and skeptical of the way everyone seems to want a piece of her: Evie’s followers, her YouTuber boyfriend and influencer frenemies, and their opportunistic mother. So when Evie disappears one day during an unsettling live stream that cuts out midsentence, Hazel is horrified to have her worst instincts proven right.

As theories about Evie’s disappearance tear through the internet, inspiring hashtags, Reddit threads, and podcast episodes, Hazel throws herself into the darkest parts of her sister’s world to untangle the truth. After all, Hazel knows Evie better than anyone else . . . doesn’t she?]]> 336 Olivia Muenter 1683694015 Julia 0 to-read 3.37 2024 Such a Bad Influence
author: Olivia Muenter
name: Julia
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> Stitches 176443803
A tumor shaped like a man’s face slowly moves across a woman’s body. The sea shoots glowing balls into the sky, much to the distress of beachgoers. And a girl dressed up for a holiday has no eyes, no nose, nothing–her face is a total blank.

Hirokatsu Kihara pens true stories of unsolved mysteries, stitched together with page after page of Junji Ito’s original illustrations in this collection of nine eerie tales and a bonus manga story.]]> 112 Hirokatsu Kihara 1974736563 Julia 0 to-read 3.13 2024 Stitches
author: Hirokatsu Kihara
name: Julia
average rating: 3.13
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss]]> 33941
Elisabeth KĂĽbler-Ross's On Death and Dying changed the way we talk about the end of life. Before her own death in 2004, she and David Kessler completed On Grief and Grieving , which looks at the way we experience the process of grief.

Just as On Death and Dying taught us the five stages of death -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance -- On Grief and Grieving applies these stages to the grieving process and weaves together theory, inspiration, and practical advice, including sections on sadness, hauntings, dreams, isolation, and healing.]]> 256 Elisabeth KĂĽbler-Ross 0743266293 Julia 0 to-read 4.31 On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
author: Elisabeth KĂĽbler-Ross
name: Julia
average rating: 4.31
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]]> My Best Friend's Exorcism 39730377 Grady Hendrix 1504714512 Julia 4 horror, favorites 3.69 2016 My Best Friend's Exorcism
author: Grady Hendrix
name: Julia
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2018/09/18
date added: 2024/01/22
shelves: horror, favorites
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]]> <![CDATA[Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story]]> 62315670 In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People,Ěýcelebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery.

Opening atĚýthe culmination of a disastrous trip to Puerto Rico, Impossible PeopleĚýfinds Wertz standing stupefied in the middle of the jungle beside a rental Jeep she'sĚýjust crashed. From this moment, the story flashes back to the beginning of her five-year journey towards sobriety that includes group therapy sessions, relapses, an ill-fated relationship, terrible dates, and an unceremoniousĚýeviction from her New York City apartment.ĚýFar from the typical addiction narrative that follows an upward trajectory from rock bottom to rehab to recovery, Impossible People portrays the lesser told but more common story: that the road to recover is not always linear. With unflinching honesty, Wertz details the arduous, frustrating, and hilarious story of trying and failing and trying again.]]> 320 Julia Wertz 0762468254 Julia 4 memoir, comics 4.31 2023 Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
author: Julia Wertz
name: Julia
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/01/22
date added: 2024/01/22
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]]> <![CDATA[The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women]]> 31409135 The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger

The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.

Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" are the luckiest alive—until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.

But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women's cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights that will echo for centuries to come.

Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

]]> 479 Kate Moore 149264935X Julia 4 4.13 2016 The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
author: Kate Moore
name: Julia
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[What I Learned from The Trees (Button Poetry)]]> 57563389
What I Learned from the Trees delves into the intricate relationship between humans and nature, and how these often overlooked, everyday interactions affect us as individuals, families, and communities. With a backbone rooted in primordial imagery and allegory, and a focus on how the growing disconnect with our own wants, needs, and fears creates deeper divides in our relationships, this collection is notably relevant to today's society and the struggles we face with the ever-expanding detachment between humans and the natural world. Aren't all living creatures seeking a notable existence? A deep sense of belonging? Of relevance? Of purpose? Of love? How often do we yearn for these wants, yet fight the vulnerability it takes to reach them? Why do we so clearly seek each other, yet refuse to reach out our hands?]]> 192 L.E. Bowman 1638340064 Julia 0 to-read 3.88 What I Learned from The Trees (Button Poetry)
author: L.E. Bowman
name: Julia
average rating: 3.88
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]]> The Evolution of a Girl 42857762 284 L.E. Bowman 0692144048 Julia 0 to-read 4.23 2018 The Evolution of a Girl
author: L.E. Bowman
name: Julia
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> Pretend I'm Dead 25490313 NAMED A BEST BOOK of the YEAR by O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE, REFINERY 29, and KIRKUS REVIEWS SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE The “wondrous� (O, The Oprah Magazine), “scathingly funny� (Entertainment Weekly) debut from Whiting Award winner and author of Big Swiss Jen Beagin about a cleaning lady named Mona and her quest for self-acceptance.Jen Beagin’s funny, moving, fearless debut novel introduces an unforgettable character, Mona—almost twenty-four, emotionally adrift, and cleaning houses to get by. She falls for a man she calls Mr. Disgusting, who proceeds to break her heart in unimaginable ways. In search of healing, she decamps to Taos, New Mexico, for a fresh start, where she finds a community of cast-offs, all of whom have something to teach her—the pajama-wearing, blissed-out New Agers, the slightly creepy client with peculiar tastes in controlled substances, the psychic who might really be psychic. But always lurking just beneath the surface are her memories of growing up in a chaotic, destructive family from which she’s trying to disentangle herself, and the larger legacy of the past. The story of Mona’s quest for belonging in this world is at once hilarious and wonderfully strange, true to life and boldly human, and introduces a stunning, one-of-a-kind new voice in American fiction.]]> 208 Jen Beagin 0810132079 Julia 2 3.70 2015 Pretend I'm Dead
author: Jen Beagin
name: Julia
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2015
rating: 2
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Ehh, two stars? One? This seems to have received some favorable buzz, but I didn't love this book. It weirdly oscillates between boring and trying just way too hard to be irreverent and clever within said boring situations with deeply unlikeable, caricature-like characters.
]]> The Woman in Me 63133205 The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.

Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.]]> 288 Britney Spears 1668009048 Julia 5 memoir 3.83 2023 The Woman in Me
author: Britney Spears
name: Julia
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2023/10/30
date added: 2023/11/01
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]]> Amazing Grace Adams 143372703 Bernadette, Eleanor Oliphant, Rosie, Ove . . . meet Amazing Grace Adams,the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink—who finally pushes back.

Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled—the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she’s really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away.

Grace sets off across London, armed with a £200 cake, to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her sixteenth birthday. Because today is the day she’ll remind her daughter that no matter how far we fall, we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams used to be amazing. Her husband thought so. Her daughter thought so. Even Grace thought so. But everyone seems to have forgotten. Grace is about to remind them . . . and, most important, remind herself.]]> 272 Fran Littlewood 1250334152 Julia 0 to-read 3.24 2023 Amazing Grace Adams
author: Fran Littlewood
name: Julia
average rating: 3.24
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Manhunt 53329296
Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned other people aren't safe.

After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics―all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.]]> 296 Gretchen Felker-Martin 1250794641 Julia 0 to-read 3.51 2022 Manhunt
author: Gretchen Felker-Martin
name: Julia
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles]]> 61796659 Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent college graduate and what happens when her feminist ideals meet the real world.

At the turn of the new millennium, LA is the place to be. “Hipster� is a new word on the scene. Lauren Conrad is living her Cinderella story in the “Hills� on millions of television sets across the country. Paris Hilton tells us “That’s hot� from behind the biggest sunglasses imaginable, while beautiful teenagers fight and fall in love on The O.C.

Into this most glittering of supposed utopias, Kate Flannery arrives with a Seven Sisters diploma in hand and a new job at an upstart clothing company called American Apparel. Kate throws herself into the work, determined to climb the corporate fashion ladder. Having a job at American Apparel also means being a part of the advertising campaigns themselves, stripping down in the name of feminism.
She slowly begins to lose herself in a landscape of rowdy sex-positivity, racy photo shoots, and a cultlike devotion to the unorthodox CEO and founder of the brand. The line between sexual liberation and exploitation quickly grows hazy, leading Kate to question the company’s ethics and wrestle with her own.

Strip Tees captures a moment in our recent past łŮłó˛ąłŮ’s already sepia toned in nostalgia, and also paints a timeless portrait of a young woman who must choose between what business demands and self-respect requires.]]> 240 Kate Flannery 1250827280 Julia 0 to-read 3.67 2023 Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
author: Kate Flannery
name: Julia
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Easy Beauty 58438546
“I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.�

So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor “pain calculations� into every plan, every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as “less than.� The way she has been seen—or not seen—has informed her lens on the world her entire life. She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to “the neutral room in her mind� until it passed. But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), something in her shifts, and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she’d been denied, and denied herself.

From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyoncé concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, Jones weaves memory, observation, experience, and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability, and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths.

With its emotional depth, its prodigious, spiky intelligence, its passion and humor, Easy Beauty is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes.]]> 272 Chloé Cooper Jones 1982151994 Julia 0 to-read 4.09 2022 Easy Beauty
author: Chloé Cooper Jones
name: Julia
average rating: 4.09
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America]]> 61685819 An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her brilliant friend could not, and, in the process, illuminates the unemployment, drug abuse, sexism and evangelicalism killing poor, rural white women all over America.

Growing up gifted and working-class poor in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives--broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In the end, Monica left Clinton for college and fulfilled her dreams, but Darci, along with many in their circle of friends, did not.

Years later, working as a journalist covering poverty, Monica discovered what she already intuitively knew about the women in Arkansas: Their life expectancy had steeply declined--the sharpest such fall in a century. She returned to Clinton to report the story, trying to understand the societal factors driving the disturbing trends in the rural south. As she reconnects with Darci, she finds that her once talented and ambitious best friend is now a statistic: a single mother of two, addicted to meth and prescription drugs, jobless and nearly homeless. Painfully aware that Darci's fate could have been hers, she retraces the moments of decision and chance in each of their lives that led such similar women toward two such different destinies.]]> 258 Monica Potts 0525519912 Julia 0 to-read 3.85 2023 The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
author: Monica Potts
name: Julia
average rating: 3.85
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]]> <![CDATA[I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality]]> 145391
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frightening mood swings that they often fear for their sanity. They can be euphoric one moment, despairing and depressed the next. There are an estimated 10 million sufferers of BPD living in America today—each displaying remarkably similar symptoms:

â—� a shaky sense of identity
â—� sudden violent outbursts
â—� oversensitivity to real or imagined rejection
â—� brief, turbulent love affairs
â—� frequent periods of intense depression
â—� eating disorders, drug abuse, and other self-destructive tendencies
â—� an irrational fear of abandonment and an inability to be alone

For years BPD was difficult to describe, diagnose, and treat. But now, for the first time, Dr. Jerold J. Kreisman and health writer Hal Straus offer much-needed professional advice, helping victims and their families to understand and cope with this troubling,shockingly widespread affliction.]]> 207 Jerold J. Kreisman 0380713055 Julia 1 3.76 1989 I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
author: Jerold J. Kreisman
name: Julia
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1989
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Never Trust a Gemini (Never Trust a Gemini #1)]]> 59418733 Cat Phillips has her head in the stars, but her romantic fantasies may ruin her shot at real-life love in this sweet and funny lesbian story.

It’s Libra Season, and Cat Phillips is ready to run headfirst into love. The only problem is that her crush is on her best friend, Alison Bridgewater, who is more interested in chatting with boys. Maybe Cat should take this as a sign to get over Alison, even if that means dating the musically challenged Jamie Owusu. After all, a new boyfriend is the best cleanse, at least according to Cat’s friends. Unfortunately, having a boyfriend is a lot harder than Cat expected. And then Morgan Delaney swoops in with her green glasses, enigmatic smile, and talent for teasing Cat in ways that make her feel ĂĽ˛ú±đ°ů±ôľ±ł¦ľ±´ÇłÜ˛ő. But Morgan is a Gemini, and there’s no way łŮłó˛ąłŮ’s in Cat’s horoscope. Will Cat finally get the girl of her dreams? Or is there a chance there’s more to life than Alison Bridgewater? The stars align for the cast of this energetic romp full of comedic misunderstandings and sparkling language.]]> 320 Freja Nicole Woolf 1536230545 Julia 0 to-read 3.16 2023 Never Trust a Gemini (Never Trust a Gemini #1)
author: Freja Nicole Woolf
name: Julia
average rating: 3.16
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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