Rainbow Rainbow Lydia Conklin

Rainbow Rainbow by Lydia Conklin

Rainbow Rainbow by Lydia Conklin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Truly brilliant, honest, queer stories told without judgment of the idiosyncrasies and paradoxes of the human experience. Rainbow, Rainbow by Lydia Conklin takes us …

Siren Queen Book Review

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo My rating: 5 of 5 stars I just started reading this book for the second time and have already found new understandings of the story! Nghi Vo is fantastic! She’s …

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Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid

Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid My rating: 4 of 5 stars At first, I rated this book a three, but after letting my review marinate and re-reading sections of the novel, its brilliance really …

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Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young

Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young My rating: 3 of 5 stars Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young is an atmospheric tale of an island and the core families that have a lifelong bond with …

Body Work Book Review

Body Work by Melissa Febos

Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is my first time reading anything by Melissa Febos, and now I’ve vowed to become a Febos …

Dune Book Review

Dune by Frank Herbert

Dune by Frank Herbert My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dune is the only thing that makes extreme dehydration and risking my life to develop a utilitarian relationship with a huge worm seem magical. Frank …

Devil House book review

Devil House by John Darnielle

Devil House by John Darnielle My rating: 3 of 5 stars “What happens when somebody tells a story that has real people in it? What happens to the story; what happens to the teller; what …

Our Crooked Hearts Book Review

Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert My rating: 5 of 5 stars “We didn’t wonder where the magic came from, or why it worked. We never asked ourselves, Is this ours to take? We were …

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Is Ancestral Knowledge The Same As Intuition?

Beliefs and tradition can be a source of comfort and hope. We may adopt rituals and practices from ancient religions or ancestral knowledge to make sense of our current challenges, our environment, our relationships to …