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SmartChick at the Blog Carnival: Books
My review of The Dangerous Passion (a terrific book about the biology of jealousy) was included in a really awesome Book Review blog carnival. I’ve never seen a blog carnival that was done so well....
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Book Review: Paul Martin’s “Original Faith”
I recently had the exciting opportunity to read and review the book “Original Faith: What Your Life is Trying to Tell You” by Paul Martin as part of his book tour with Women on Writing. This book is a...
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SmartChick Reads: Comfort
I try to read books that cover a diverse range of different topics and styles. Mostly I choose books that are relevant to the topics that I am currently most interested in or most affected by. However,...
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SmartChick Reads: The Last Goodnights
The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides is an intense book that is definitely worth a read. It tells the true story of a man who helped both of his aging parents to commit suicide...
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Reading: I Don’t Care About Your Band
The first book of 2013 that I finished reading was a quick and fun read by Julie Klausner called I Don’t Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons,...
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Laurie Gray’s Maybe I Will Book Tour
Today I am a stop on a really interesting two-book blog tour hosted by Novel Publicity and Luminis Books. The tour kicked off on August 26th with Book #1, a historical literary book by Waimea Williams...
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The Reason Why I Jump
I recently read this special book that is a teen’s educational memoir about what it’s like to live with autism. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism was written by...
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Book Review: Antiphony
I’ve gotten the opportunity to participate in a lovely book tour for the book Antiphony by Chris Katsaropoulos so I’m happy to share that book here with you today. About the Book “What if the Universe...
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Isolation When Working From Home
I just received my copy of the new book Out of Office: How to Work from Home, Telecommute, or Workshift Successfully by Simon Salt. I purchased this book not just because it interested me but also...
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Just Girls – YA LGBTQ Book Review
Just Girls is a young adult LGBTQ novel that stands out to me as innovative and aware while simultaneously touching on the topics that affect many teenagers as they enter the college scene for the...
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Soul Sessions: A Book About Soulmates, Serendipity and Life After Death
As soon as I saw the campaign for this book, I knew that I wanted to be a part of it. Soul Sessions just looked like something that was unique from the other books that are out there and it piqued my...
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Book Review: Always Too Much and Never Enough
Jasmin Singer is a vegan, lesbian, animal rights activist and author whose 2016 memoir Always Too Much and Never Enough shares her story of weight gain and loss on the path to understanding the core of...
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Book Report: The Battle of Junk Mountain
On January 1st, I read The Battle of Junk Mountain. I read 82 books last year, but I realized that very few of them were fiction. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that. I love non-fiction,...
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This book review of the Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer is from the archives. I originally published in April 2015. I lost my posts for this site in an update problem and am slowly restoring the posts I...
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Just Girls is a young adult LGBTQ novel that stands out to me as innovative and aware. Simultaneously, it touches on the topics that affect many teenagers as they enter the college scene for the first...
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Dementia Memoir: Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words
This is a book review of a dementia memoir. I originally published this review here on the blog in 2014. As I update what was lost in my blog transition, I found that I wanted to share this again. The...
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Memoir Quotes: Borderlines by Caroline Kraus
Memoir quotes are often my favorite quotes. I really love reading memoirs. There is something so special about individual stories. In a memoir, the deeply personal becomes universal. We find what...
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Wisdom From Every Year of Life
100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life is a book that has short quotations about every year of life from birth through age 100. I flipped through it a few times before reading...
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Videocracy: Forms of Collaboration on YouTube
I recently read the book Videocracy. There was so much rich stuff in there about collaboration. Here are some of the things I learned and thoughts I had while reading this book. Videocracy: About the...
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
When the libraries here closed back in March (and still haven’t really re-opened) my mom sent me a bunch of books from her personal library to satisfy my reading itch. I’ve been reading much more...
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