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The author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of …
…because sometimes I’m so stubborn it makes me stupid…
— Thunder Song by Sasha LaPointe (65%)
These essays are incredible. This quote from Chapter 15 is totally me as well, too often.
Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the …
The author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means …
The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would …
Loved this!
The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa―a name …
Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands …
Birnam Wood is on the move . . .
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam …
The author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means …
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning Tender Is the Flesh.
From …
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, …
I think it’s worth reading, especially if you lost someone to suicide, and probably even more relatable if a close family member. Although it’s a memoir, it’s also in the style of investigative journalism. The author has done a lot of work in this field related to mental illness. So she adds in that experience and also history, statistics, policy, etc. I also appreciate that she explains her process and efforts on writing this book: working with her siblings on remembering key moments, acquiring police records, and interviewing others from their past.
We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. …
Many times I asked my shadow, Where should I go now? Predictably, he never replied.
— The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (Page 135)
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, …
Content warning content warning not really a spoiler, premise of the book - suicide
How do you tell kids that someone in their family is dead because he killed himself? How do you talk about suicide without normalizing it or vilifying it? ...[he] died today because he did not want to be alive anymore.
— While You Were Out by Meg Kissinger (63%)
this. so heavy. and also even if you don't have your own kids, you might still end up being the one in your family to have to do this. this author's experience is heavy all around.
We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. …
Silence and nothingness, as always, were my constant companions. I was quite used to them by now, since they’d become a part of me. Silence and nothingness…take them away and there’d be nothing else to say about my life.
— The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (Page 112)
THE SUN IS A COMPASS chronicles a 4,000-mile human-powered expedition from the Pacific rainforest to …
Oooh I liked this one! A combination of birding nerd stuff and exploring the Arctic region all by hiking, skiing or paddling for 6 months, yes please. This was a nice balance of some of the logistics of the trip, plus fun wildlife information. Solid writing without too much fluff.
@realityasylumreads awesome thanks! I’ll add to my list!
