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I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
In I’m Glad My Mom Died, McCurdy describes the impact her mother had on her life and career. As a child and later as an adult, even after her mother’s death, McCurdy has had to...
Read MoreThe Fishermen and the Dragon by Kirk Wallace Johnson
The Fishermen and the Dragon dives into the racist, polluted history of Texas’s Gulf Coast. The book primarily deals with the relationship between Vietnamese refugees and racist white shrimpers/Klan members in the gulf, but it...
Read MoreHer Country by Marissa R. Moss
Her Country tackles the unspoken, backward rules of the country music industry with regard to female artists, and does so by tracking the careers of Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris, and Mickey Guyton. I’m from the...
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Read MoreOrdinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U. S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment
I received an advance reading copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I’ve never listened to the Ordinary Equality podcast, so I started off without much knowledge as to what to expect...
Read MoreHow to Be a Difficult Bitch: Claim Your Power, Ditch the Haters, and Feel Good Doing It
Like others who have reviewed this book, I found myself often wondering where this had been when I was a teenager – or even a younger adult. The illustrations definitely would have appealed to my...
Read MoreForget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
As one of thousands of seventh-grade Texas history alums in the mid-2000s, reading this book was a whirlwind of emotions for me. I was immediately taken back to the classroom with my middle school history...
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