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  • November 2024 Reading Recap

    Essays and horror and poetry, oh my! This month I had the chance to interview adoptee author, Jenny Heijun Wills about her new essay collection, Everything and Nothing at All, recently named one of Globe and Mail’s best books of 2024. The book will be widely available it the US in 2025, and I felt

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  • October 2024 Reading Recap

    Spooky season was finally upon us in October. I got some good ones in this month, alongside a few classics, old and new. I also took advantage of a trip to Kansas to visit Watermark Books & Cafe in Wichita, and two great local authors that were new to me: Sarah Smarsh and Nghiem Tran.

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  • April 2024 Reading Recap

    This month I was once again reminded of the stark difference between adoptee stories told by adoptees, adoptee stories told by non-adoptee allies, and adoptee stories told by those who use us as plot points, perpetuating inaccurate and harmful tropes. I read books that are examples of all three in April.   Please support adoptee

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  • November 2023 Reading Recap

    November was a non-fiction heavy reading month, as 9 of 13 books I read fell into the nonfiction category, while two more (Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), marvelously read by the actress Maggie Gyllenhaal; and Percival Everett’s The Book of Training (2019)) were based heavily in fact.  It was my second reading of The

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  • 2023 Reading: January – June Review

    Closing out the first half of 2023, I completed 85 books across 17 genres and sub-genres. 58% of these books have been non-fiction. Across genres, I have read the most Popular and Literary Fiction (18%) and Poetry / Hybrid (18%). This is followed by U.S. and World History (12%) and Writing Craft & Theory (11%).

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