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13 reviews

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

WAY BETTER THAN THE MOVIE, OMG
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

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dark emotional informative sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as a 20 some thing I thought that I had a lot of time to figure things out and make certain career and educational changes when I would get a little bit older, but this book puts that back in the forefront of my mind. It allowed me to. It set the stage that our 20s are a foundation (and not that you can’t have this in your 30s) and to take advantage of it now. I love that there were real experiences discussed in the book because it felt validating as a 24 y/o. Because of this book, I started intentionally dating, I applied and got into grad school and I’m making the most out of these years. 
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

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informative medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed this book. I picked this up as a monogamous person who wanted to learn tips around normalizing but working through feelings jealousy and ownership that I’ve felt with past partners and it truly opened my eyes to a lot. I loved that it was framed through the lens of attachment and that was rooted throughout the book. It also made me question or rather broaden my own identity as a monogamous person. I thoroughly enjoyed this read! 
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Rootwork: Using the Folk Magick of Black America for Love, Money and Success by Tayannah Lee McQuillar

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informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Mala & the Mask of Gold by Jaime Martin Ko Atilano

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adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

No spoilers! I thouroughly enjoyed the book but the authors writing style was a little hard for me to enjoy. Overall I loved the way the incorporated so much of their culture within the overall theme of the book! 
Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

My. Tyson Ms. Tyson, a life you have lived! It was a lovely to listen along to your many life stories and great lessons. Although I only saw you in your later films as a youngin myself, i see and honor the importance of your legacy you left in the film world. I absolutely adored learning more about you and your family. I loved listening to this audiobook, I would recommend it to anyone who knew her or wanted to know her. 
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is one of the best psychology books I’ve read! 

This book made me reflect about how I interact and show up around my family. Growing up around emotionally immature adults (not just parents but also people in my immediate and extended family). I realize that I am not myself when I am around them, my true self that my friends and my chosen family know doesn’t feel safe to come out because of past ridicule and shame I got. It’s honestly so annoying and disheartening knowing you can’t show up as your full self, but this book helped me realize a lot. What does it look like to engage with someone and know that their maturity level is what it is and understanding while that person is how they are, that doesn’t reflect me and it doesn’t reflect how I show up in relation to them. 

I have so many thoughts on this book that this review will most likely turn into pages of pages into my journal lol. But if you are struggling with emotionally immature parents, siblings, grandparents, adults, romantic partners, etc., please get this book. It illuminated a lot and it definitely was painful knowing the truth but it also felt like a weight was lifted because it’s not really my weight to carry. And it really has some practical advice for me as a child on what to do about my behavior that has resulted from my upbringing. But this is a part that I battle with because the trauma that I dealt with as a child is unfortunately something I still deal with and experience today. It’s hard being an environment that you know triggers you while also trying to be and do better. But this is a part of doing the work (for myself at least lol). 

I also appreciate how the book closes out with showing us what emotionally mature people look like and how to move forward with seeking emotionally mature relationships! Overall I would definitely recommend this book, make you have pens, highlighters, and lil post it notes because I annotated this book like no other! 
The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I really enjoyed the story and the overall theme that you never really know when it’s your time or when it’s someone you know time to transcend this earthly realm. A question that repeatedly came for me was what does it look like to live fully and authentically every day? 
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I also enjoyed how Adam intricately wrote in some of the OG’s in (Mateo and Rufus) and how The Last Friend App came to be. It was a really cute and touching story about living, truly living and being. I asked myself if I had been truly living or just surviving? A piece of me feels like I’ve been living and existing in the moment and I’m grateful, but a part of me also feels like I’ve been on auto-pilot (but I’ll save that for a journal entry🤭) 
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Overall would defiantly recommend that you all go out and read the book! But definitely read the TBDATE before you read TFTDATE. 
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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

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dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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