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Hell Bent

Journey to Hell for Redemption Author: Leigh Bardugo What do you do when your mentor and secret crush is literally in Hell because of your actions? If you’re Alex Stern, the bad girl with a past and a gift for seeing the dead, you’ll do anything to rescue Darlington, including opening a portal to Hell in the middle of Yale. Guilt is a powerful motivator, after all, and Alex has enough blood on her trembling hands. Hell Bent begins a few months after the ending of Ninth House. The Board of Lethe has settled the mess, hidden the bodies, invented a [...]

Frances Carden2023-05-17T14:10:35-07:00May 14th, 2023|Tags: book review, fantasy, horror, read, reading, reviews|

The Twenty: One Woman’s Trek Across Corsica on the GR20 Trail

One Woman's Struggle Against Nature & Age Author: Marianne C. Bohr Marianne Bohr has always been consumed by proving herself. Retirement is no different. Both Marianne and her husband, Joe, have always sought adventure, travel, and pushing their bodies to the limit and reveling in nature and the human determination to explore it, to feel strength and a bodily connection. When they chose the world’s most difficult trail, the famed GR 20 in Corsica that covers 124 miles of rough terrain, including sharp ascents and descents, remote mountain passes, and a surprising number of free-range pigs, Marianne started to worry. At [...]

Frances Carden2023-05-03T08:07:27-07:00April 29th, 2023|Tags: reviews|

Sensitive One, The

A Survivor's Story Author: Susan Frances Morris What would you do if you were just diagnosed with breast cancer? For Susan Frances Morris her diagnoses opens the world into her past. A past she has been trying to bury. From the horrors of a degenerating, alcoholic father, to a schizophrenic sister, to an emotionally closed off mother, to an abusive first husband, Morris has suffered and survived a lot. She has overcome a lot. She is a practicing nurse. A mother. A happy wife. She has finally made it, so why now? When a brief Google for answers leads her to [...]

Frances Carden2023-03-06T09:40:49-07:00March 4th, 2023|Tags: abuse survivor, book review, cancer survivor, memoir, nonfiction, read, reading, reviews, survivor|