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47 reviews

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Smart Sex: How to Boost Your Sex IQ and Own Your Pleasure by Emily Morse
Did not finish book. Stopped at 9%.

Gut health is a pseudoscience and does not have a correlation with mental health in the way the author argues it does here. That type of misinformation is dangerous and NOT non-fiction!

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Fascinating look at infidelity! Interesting perspectives and thoughts; highly recommend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

The Polygamist's Daughter: A Memoir by Anna LeBaron

informative reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Child abuse

A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.

Too graphic. I support her ability to share her story how she wants, but as a CSA survivor, I can’t finish it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.

Just not into the President Snow back story. It’s boring and irksome.

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

Beautifully written, made me feel all the emotions at once. John Green is a fantastic writer and this book was such a nice reframe on the world. 

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Racism, Ableism, Homophobia, Medical trauma, and Domestic abuse

Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

Brilliant memoir written about post partum psychosis! The narration is fantastic and the writing style is beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Pregnancy

Moderate: Medical trauma and Body shaming

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Fantastic read for anyone looking to better understand masculinity and the social construction of it in the West. A recommendation I make for anyone looking to learn or unpack these topics.