Tag: #rachelreads&reviews
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Black Girl Love
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney Preacher’s daughter, Monique is a good girl. Well she’s not, everyone else believes she is. Her parents especially so compared to their older daughter, Myracle whom they kicked out a year ago. And that’s what Monique intends for them to keep believing as she fools around…
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Jo and Laurie Review
For all those who rooted for Laurie and Jo to end up together, this is for you.
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Thoughts on Joan Didion
I’m going to keep this short since this is probably an unpopular opinion, but I’m not sure what makes Didion so incredible. I just read Slouching Towards Bethlehem and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and they were fine. They were essays/news articles about interesting people Didion interviewed or simply her reminscing over her…
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Can you name this forgotten book series?
This has been driving me crazy. But it’s an elementary school series, think fifth grade, and it features a group of real life kids. Usually different in each book. And their adventures in whatever place the story is set. Like a haunted tour of San Francisco. The Iditorod Trail in Alaska. Disneyland and so forth.…
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The Mortal Instruments Series Lookback
Originally I was going to write one huge post after I finished all of Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter universe books, but as it has been almost four years and I still have two books to go, I figured I should start writing now as I’m forgotting some of my original thoughts after four years. These things…
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Girls on Film Review
Alicia Malone loves classic films and this memoir/film guide (more memoir than film guide though) shines a light on that abudently. As she says, people like to think of their lives as movies. In her case, her life has been influenced by the movies so much she is beginning to wonder if movies imitate life…
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A Reason for Hope Review
I have to tell a sort of funny story but when I skimmed the summary, I really skimmed. I thought this was a true, nonfictional story about a rape sruvivor, Tessa, her lawyer, Will and his comfort dog, Hope as they fight to put her rapist in jail. While falling in love by the way.…
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