Tag: mental health
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Depression: The Sneaky Devil
I know it has been a while since I have posted something that isn’t book-related, but I either felt like I had nothing to update y’all on or I was just in a funk and all I really did was read and sleep. The fact of the matter is is I’ve been a total wreck…
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The Missing Ones by Patricia Gibney: Book Review
Book Review: St. Angela’s in Ragmullin is a place that was filled with terror and child brutality. A lot of secrets lurk behind those walls and it’s DI Lottie Parker who has to find out what St Angela’s has to do with her investigations of recent murders and a missing persons file squirreled away in…
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Mr Mercedes by Stephen King: Book Review
Book Review: Mr Mercedes by Stephen KingPeople are gathered in the early morning fog at a job fair event, waiting for the doors to open in a few hours. While they wait, a man in a stolen gray Mercedes runs over many of these waiting people, killing several and injuring many. Detective Hodges who has…
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We Were Liars by E. Lockhart: Book Review
Cadence Sinclair Eastman aka Cady was a part of a wealthy family mainly held up by her granddad. Every summer Cady and her mom, aunts and cousins head to Beechwood Island, an Island her Granddad owned. He was head of the family until her grandma Tipper died and then after an accident that left Cady…
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Who’s Watching Who by Kerry Kennedy: Book Review
Clare has finally escaped a mentally abusive relationship with a man of a few years with the help of her brother and a friend four years ago. And escape definitely sums up the word. After the escape, the mental abuser, Jonathan, who has worn Clare down from a bright, confident woman to a meak, Scared…
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I’m Okay But Not Okay
I started this month out being perfectly fine and content, even knowing my mom was going to have surgery soon, but not long after the new year began, my mom dropped a bomb on me that has had my mental health in a little bit of turmoil. Not only is my mom having heart surgery,…
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Phoenix Rising by V.S. Griffin: A Book Review
“Meet Victoria, a woman for whom motherhood is one of the proudest accomplishment in her life. But when her young son Colin dies suddenly, Victoria is thrown into a dangerous downward spiral. Suicidal, broken and desperate for love, she careens into a relationship with Dominic. At first, the relationship seems like the salvation that Victoria…
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Book Review: Some Other Now by Sarah Everett
Some Other Now by Sarah Everett is based a year in the past and also in the present when teenager, Jessi Rumfield, lives her life with her surrogate family that she’s known for ten years, but when her best friend, Ro’s mother, Mel, becomes terminally ill, everything changes. Feelings get discovered and even hurt, but…
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The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon: A Book Review
Book Review: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon.This book…OMG. There was so much excitement and adventure going on in this 800-page book. I read so much everyday for about four days because it was so good. It’s a multi-pov fantasy book told in the third person about these women basically trying to…
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A Book Review: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle will give your emotions a shake as you go through Dannie Kohan’s relationship with David and her friendship with longtime friend, Bella, and her confusing and complicated new friendship with Bella’s boyfriend, Greg or Aaron Gregory. This book has heartbreak and grieving for the friends and will show you…
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