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The Immortalists

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

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The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin is the story of four siblings, Varya, Daniel, Klara and Simon Gold. On a hot summer day in 1969, the four pay a visit to a woman who can tell them when they will die. Each sibling must come to terms with the knowledge in their own way and each faces the question of whether that knowledge informs the way they live. Complicating each of their lives is their relationships to each other and their parents, Gertie and Saul. Those […]

We can’t learn from people we don’t have a relationship with.

A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D

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I read A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D as a work related thing. I’ve worked in and around K-12 education for nearly two decades but have never had the opportunity for this particular avenue of professional development. It was enlightening. A Framework for Understanding Poverty is aimed towards educators and how they can understand and relate to students and parents in poverty. Some of the points are relatively obvious, such as the fact that poverty is not simply or always about […]

Love and pride don’t mix.

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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I first saw Daisy Jones & The Six recommended by Elaine Lui of LaineyGossip a few months ago. I’ve picked up several books from Lainey’s recommendations and enjoyed most of them. Daisy Jones & The Six was no exception. Daisy Jones & The Six was one of those books I found myself mentally casting as I was reading it. The supporting cast came together in my head pretty quickly but the leads were a bit harder. Daisy and Billy ended up as sort of amalgamations […]

In Dubious Battle

In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck

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I think it’s in On Writing by Stephen King, where he says sometimes you read a book and think “I can do that.” And then there are the books and the authors that make you say, “I could never do that.” For me, John Steinbeck is one of the latter. There is something about the way he puts words together, that I know are in the same language I speak, but somehow form simple, spare sentences conveying more meaning than the individual words would suggest […]

Jane Murder

Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

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I picked up Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye based on the review by @faintingviolet. And also Jane Eyre is one of my very favorite books. The eponymous Jane of Jane Steele is headstrong and willful, convinced she knows herself and her capabilities to her very core. She knows these things about herself because from a very young age, she has been told few things but those things she is told, she is told with great certainty. Jane’s moral certainty leads her to commit murder and […]



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