How far can you bend without breaking?At what point can you no longer stand straightbefore starting the inevitable danceof weight awkwardly shifted side to side.Where do you feel pain points,restrictions, tight knots of tension,muscles pulled taut?What causes you to hunch over—pulled down by the weightof a broken world?When will you snap—pushed beyond your limitswith a…
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Book Review: The Lion Women of Tehran
Why I was interested in this book To be honest, I am generally skeptical of friends’ book reviews as much as I am of bestseller lists because taste is very subjective and there are lots of popular themes & types of content that I have no interest in reading. However, as I hope you’ve also…
Scars
It doesn’t take much effort to createa lifetime of damage; to spoil the perfectionof a smooth façade. But come to think of it:even before being marred by a weaponwas anything ever without fault? For beforethe damage was done, imperfections were imparted.There is no true symmetry in nature,there is nothing created by God that doesn’thave a…
History, Your Story
Love the story you’re living right now. In a not-too-distant future, you’ll see its beauty; you’ll have learned a few of its lessons. The story of your present frames you in the role of the main character. Please rise to the occasion. Only you are suitable to fill the position. The plot will evolve as…
Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude
I almost decided not to write a review on Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize Award-winning novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Not because I hated it or couldn’t finish reading—neither was true. More because I wasn’t sure what I would say about it or to whom I would recommend the book. I’m not sure I…
Book Review: Mrs. Dalloway
With this review of Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), I have finally completed the pile of books I picked up a few years ago from The Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin (with the exception of a puzzle book). One of the other titles, How Should One Read a Book, also by Woolf, was a great little…
OBJECT THINGS STUFF
messy bits we carry around. In 10 days, my debut collection of poetry will be published & available for the world to see. But before that, some context. I have loved poetry since I was a child. My cousin, Lindsay, and I once produced a hand-illustrated, yarn-bound collection of poems based on the creek in…
Book Review: Lost Illusions
A few years ago, I read (and totally enjoyed) Père Goirot, one of Honoré de Balzac’s most famous novels in his massive work, La Comédie humaine, which is comprised of 90 novels featuring 2,000 characters who cross between the books. As a lover of classic European literature (my favorite book is Les Misèrables), I was…
Book Review: So Long as It’s Wild
Ever since the book So Long as It’s Wild: Standing Strong After My Famous Walk Across America (2023)by Barbara Jenkins was announced, I’ve been highly anticipating reading it. A few years ago, I read (and loved) To Shake the Sleeping Self, written by one of her sons, Jedidiah Jenkins. From following both Jedidiah and Barbara…
Book Review: The Dutch House
I am a sucker for an interesting book cover, so it was not really a surprise that the arresting portrait of a dark-haired girl unapologetically staring back at me caught my attention whilst I was browsing books at Barnes and Noble recently. To be honest, I’m not sure I could have just walked away from…
