Book reviews and random thoughts.
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The Lady’s Illness Library is a collection of stories about unconventional illness journeys. Here, you won’t find prescriptive health tips or quick fixes, but exploratory conversations that seek to understand these immense human experiences. Diseases that are multifaceted, sort-of-undiagnosed, and debilitating–think autoimmunity, long COVID, migraine–are more common than ever, affecting majority women. And yet, despite their growing ubiquity, they still live beneath the surface of our cultur ...
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Review of Snowglobe by Soyoung Park
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Creative Priorities Redefined with Erica Vipond of A Novel Idea
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Send a text about the show here. If you want a reply, add your email address. What happens when chronic illness forces you to prioritize your life’s passions? In this conversation, Rachel Katz interviews Erica Vipond, a fiction writer diagnosed with a nerve-affecting autoimmune condition, to explore how these challenges reshaped her creative priori…
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Very ambitious and very ill with Emma Simpson of Lemon Soul
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Send a text about the show here. If you want a reply, add your email address. If you're sick of the one-size-fits-all approach to managing illness, Emma Simpson's story will resonate with you. This conversation encourages us to reject the pressure to adhere to conventional wellness practices and instead personalize our routines–a huge relief when t…
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Episode 83: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
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Review of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller.
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Episode 82: A Fate of Wrath and Flame
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Review of A Fate of Wrath and Flame by K.A. Tucker
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Review of Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
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Sara Tasker on chronic fatigue and invisible disabilities
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Send a text about the show here. If you want a reply, add your email address. Ever feel like you're battling some kind of weird, unexplainable health issue that even doctors can't seem to get a grip on? Writer and influencer Sara Tasker gets refreshingly honest about her decades-long journey with chronic fatigue, narcolepsy, dysautonomia, and a who…
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Episode 80: 10 Things I Hate About Prom
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Review of 10 Things I Hate About Prom by Elle Gonzalez Rose
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Review of Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs
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Review of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.
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Autoimmune dichotomy: holding grief and joy at the same time
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Send a text about the show here. If you want a reply, add your email address. In this heartfelt episode, Rachel sits down with Julia Edelman to discuss her ten-year journey with uveitis, an autoimmune disorder affecting the retina. They explore the roller coaster of emotions Julia has experienced through the medical challenges and numerous surgerie…
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Review of Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto.
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Review of Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara.
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Living With Migraines: From Control To Creation
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Send a text about the show here. If you want a reply, add your email address. What does life look like when frequent migraines sap your energy? How do you find meaning in this context? Host Rachel Katz explores this question with Substack writer Amber Horrox, who shares her journey with chronic illness in her newsletter, Warrior Within. From grappl…
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Send a text about the show here. If you want a reply, add your email address. Ema Hegberg is the extraordinarily thoughtful writer behind Peace of the Whole. She has spent over a decade with varying symptoms, from upper GI issues (feeling like food was getting stuck when she swallowed) to chronic gut problems to Lyme disease and adverse reaction to…
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Review of At the Speed of Lies by Cindy L. Otis.
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Episode 74: You Should See Me in a Crown
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Review of You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
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Review of Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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Review of Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Review of I Kill the Mockingbird by Paul Acampora
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Review and rant about Jane & Edward: A Modern Reimagining of Jane Eyre, by Melodie Edwards
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Episode 69: Amari and the Night Brothers
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Review of Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
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Book talk and review of Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington
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Review and rant about Chosen by Shade Owens, the first book in The Immortal Ones dystopian series
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Discussion and review of Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow
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Review of The Comeback by Lily Chu
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Review of Not Your Ex's Hexes by April Asher
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Review of The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest
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Episode 62: A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon
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Review of A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley
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Review of Sleep No More by Jayne Ann Krentz
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Review of Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston
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Review of A Thousand Heartbeats by Kiera Cass
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Review and rant about Anon Pls by DeuxMoi
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Review of A Cosmic Kind of Love by Samantha Young
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Review of The Do-Over by Lynn Painter
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Review of Dirty Lying Faeries by Sabrina Blackburry
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Review of Me and Banksy by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
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Episode 53: Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born
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Review of Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz
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Episode 52: When Life Gives You Vampires
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Review of When Life Gives You Vampires by Gloria Duke
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Review of Big Bad by Lily Anderson
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Review of Bring Me Their Hearts trilogy by Sara Wolf
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Review of Becoming a Queen by Dan Clay
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Episode 48: Not Here to Stay Friends
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Review of Not Here to Stay Friends by Kaitlyn Hill
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Review of Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs
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Review of Grave Things Like Love by Sara Bennett Wealer
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Review of Strictly No Heroics by B.L. Radley *SPOILERS*
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Frogman's Response by Heidi Voss
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Episode 43: Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
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Review of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A.F. Steadman
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Review of Mr. Perfect on Paper by Jean Meltzer
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Review of Not the Witch You Wed by April Asher
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