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The Monthly Wrap: November

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A detailed look at November’s reading habits: 30 books, no DNFs, six books knocked off my Up Next shelf, 12 new books at the top of my want to read list–one of which I’ve already purchased–and a new read-alike recommendations category, and five new book reviews with the following themes: learning to love again, challenging “conventional” relationships and whodunnit mysteries (part 2).

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Vulnerable and Cathartic: Untamed by Glennon Doyle

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Series: Standalone

Release Date: March 10, 2020

<strong>Synopsis</strong>
There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this?

Four years ago, Glennon Doyle, author, activist and humanitarian, wife and mother of three—was speaking at a conference when a woman entered the room. Glennon looked at her and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. Soon she realized that they came to her from within.

Glennon was finally hearing her own voice—the voice that had been silenced by decades of cultural conditioning, numbing addictions, and institutional allegiances. She vowed to never again abandon herself. She decided to build a life of her own—one based on her individual desire, intuition, and imagination. She would reclaim her true, untamed self.

<strong>Ending</strong>
HEA
<strong>Representation</strong>
• F/F main couple
• Author identities as queer
<strong>Possible Triggers:</strong> Yes
• Bulimia (started at 10 years old)
• Discussion of people (including children) dying of cancer
• Discussion of drug and alcohol addiction
<strong>Mature Themes</strong>
• Discussion of anxiety and depression
• Discussion of infidelity
• Discussion of abortion
• See Possible Triggers for Abuse and OTT sad parts.

Format: Hardcover

Rating: 4.25/5 stars

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Liberating and Thought-Provoking: How To Get Over A Boy by Chidera Eggerue

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Series: Standalone

Release Date: February 4, 2020

<strong>Synopsis:</strong>
Are you fed up with thinking about that guy every minute of every waking hour, when he doesn’t even reply to your texts?

Are you reeling from the pain of a break-up, unsure of where to turn?

Are you single and looking to be happy with your choices in the face of society’s constant questioning?

In How to Get Over a Boy, bestselling author Chidera Eggerue will show you, once and for all, how to reframe the stale goal of finding a man. She will equip you with tangible and applicable solutions for every part of your dating life, helping you recognize that men hold as much power in our romantic lives as we grant them.

In the past, dating books tend to lean more into the territory of ‘how to make him find you hot!’, ‘how to make him jealous!’, ‘how to get him to propose!’. But these how-tos are placing men on a pedestal of being ‘the prize’. Men are NEVER the prize. You are. Let The Slumflower show you why.

<strong>Ending</strong>
Informative and helpful: provides accessible tools to implement in real-life.
<strong>Representation</strong>
• Black Author
<strong>Possible Triggers:</strong> Yes
Discussion of:
• Physically, emotionally and psychologically abusive relationships
• Gaslighting
• Parental neglect and abandonment
<strong>Mature Themes</strong>
None of Note
• See Possible Triggers for Abuse and OTT sad parts.

Format: Hardcover

Rating: 3.75/5 stars

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The Weekly Wrap: November 2nd to November 8th

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A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: seven new books read (two from my Up Next shelf), three new books I want to read featuring a coming-of-age LGBTQIA+ historical fiction set in Ireland, a YA fantasy revolution-based novel and a mother-daughter contemporary fiction story and a look at all the books I want to read this upcoming week.

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