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Book Review: Healing Rage
The basic assumption of Healing Rage is that unresolved rage from childhood trauma is still locked in our bodies and minds. This blocked energy manifests as disguises of rage in...
2011 Reading Challenges
I have decided to sign up for the following reading challenges for 2011. Quirky Brown Reading Challenge: The focus here is on books offering an offbeat black experience, which...
2010 Wrap Up
I am spamming. I know. But I have to get everything done before midnight. This year, I read 74 books and participated in three challenges. According to GoodReads, I rated the...
Book Reviews: Percy Jackson #3-5
My promise to my daughter has been fulfilled. She read all seven of the Harry Potter books (well, we listened to them together), so I have read all five of the Percy...
Audiobook Reviews: December
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, narrated by LeVar Burton: This book is hilarious. We seriously spent most of the book laughing at all of the crazy...
Mini Reviews: December Fiction
Well, the new year is almost upon us and I am, as usual, behind on reviews. Since I don't want to carry over anything into the new year, I'm going to just go ahead and do mini...
Happy Haul-idays!
Chronicle Books is having a contest, and the terms are pretty simple. List up to $500 worth of books that I want? Don't mind if I do! Books that I Would Give to Others,...
Audiobook Review: Eleven
"You are not the boss of everything just because you wear a bra!" My daughter loves the Winnie books. LOVES. So when she saw the audiobook version of Eleven by Lauren Myracle...
Mini Reviews: Fiction
As I said in my previous post, I am really far behind, so mini reviews! Some of these date back to October, just to give a clue at how far behind I am. ...