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Category: Reads

  • 101 essays that will change the way you think by Brianna Wiest

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    101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think is one of those rare books I know I’ll return to again and again this year; not because it’s dense or demanding, but because it’s gentle in the way it unsettles you. Each essay is brief, often just a page or two, but they don’t rush…

  • The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi

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    I Wanted a Man Who Saves Himself -So I Started Saving Myself If there’s ever been a book that demanded more than just reading ; that asked for strength, patience, and a whole lot of emotional recalibration, it was The Rational Male. This was a difficult read, at first. I didn’t finish it in one sitting. I…

  • The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden

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    I Forgot My Class Because of Millie PS: This is a book review 🙂 I fear I have read too many psychological thrillers, and now I am the problem.I will hand it over to Freida McFadden though; she had me gripped from the epilogue, and 100 pages into the book, I came to the stark realization that…

  • The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

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    The Sex Lives of African Women was, without exaggeration, one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. Not because it was easy. Not because it was comforting. But because it was real — raw, unapologetic, and deeply human. I came into it with assumptions I didn’t even know I carried: that sexuality for African women was…

  • A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

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    A New Earth isn’t just a book I read- it’s one I’ll return to again and again, not just this year, but for the rest of my life. It was a wake-up call: a gentle but firm invitation to wake up to myself- not the story I tell about who I am, but the quiet,…

  • Deep Work by Cal Newport

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    From the very first page, I felt seen. Not because the book accused me, but because it named something I’d been ignoring: that my phone isn’t a tool I use — it’s a master I serve. I check it while waiting for the kettle to boil. I check it while walking to the store. I check it…

  • A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

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    I am writing this book review in March while navigating the chaos happening in the world, specifically the war in Iran, which has forced me to slow down these past couple of days. This deceleration brought reflection on habits I have dropped and others I have picked up, such as watching TV like a lunatic…

  • Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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    Fountainhead by Ayn Rand was not an easy read for sure. I started with the author’s note and had to use my dictionary every few statements. I remember almost giving up. But my colleague had sworn by this book, and so I had to stick it out and find out why. At one point, frustrated,…

  • Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

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    This novel grabs you with suspense from the very first page. It opens with a haunting line: a girl reflects on getting a B in math, asking her mom for a tutor, and wonders, if she’d known the chain of events that one decision would unleash, would she have chosen differently? I remember thinking: Okay,…

  • Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

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    Reading Man’s Search for Meaning felt like stepping into a world where humanity was stripped down to its barest essence. Viktor Frankl recounts his time in Nazi concentration camps in Austria; places where prisoners lost their names and became numbers, where death loomed in gas chambers and starvation, and where each day was a question…