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How to lose your mother
Auto-Biography

How to Lose Your Mother Book Review: A Daughter’s Memoir on Grief and Identity

Sometimes, memoirs cut right to the messy truth no one else will say aloud. How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir does just that, tracing a daughter’s private, scientific, and ethical reckoning as she pieces together her experience

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the long walk
Fiction

The Long Walk by Stephen King: A Haunting Journey Through Endurance, Survival, and Legacy [2025 Review]

The first time I picked up The Long Walk, I felt its tension right under my skin. The book isn’t one of Stephen King’s flashier horror stories, but it lingers in a way that makes it unique among his

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Never Flinch
Horror

Never Flinch and the Stephen King Connection: Why This Novel Stays With Me

Some stories just stick with you long after you turn the last page. Never Flinch, a novel that’s often linked to Stephen King thanks to its style and depth, is one that’s left a real mark on me. With

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counting backwards

Counting Backwards Book Review: Memory, Justice, and the Past That Haunts Us

I came to Counting Backwards with a complicated kind of curiosity—equal parts hope, unease, and the faint echo of memory (mine, collective, borrowed from the women who came before me and fictional ones who haunt the pages of American

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On Democracies and Death
Non-Fiction

Book Review: On Democracies and Death Cults—Douglas Murray’s Take on Israel, Hamas, and the Struggle for Western Values

How do democracies defend themselves when faced with forces that glorify destruction and reject every shared value? In On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, Douglas Murray addresses this question head-on. The book cuts through

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If Cats Disappeared from the World

If Cats Disappeared from the World Review: Honest Insights for Thoughtful Readers

What would you give up to live one more day? Genki Kawamura’s If Cats Disappeared from the World presses pause on daily routines to tackle this question head-on. In this short novel, an unnamed postman faces a stark reality—terminal

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