Lauren Van Mullem

a beautiful drop of peace and possibility

Revisado: 12-25-24

Robin Wall Kimerer can live in my head rent free any time. She's a voice of conscience and compassion, a fresh perspective and timeless human wisdom. Just listen to the book. Even better, listen to it while you're gardening or baking, or packing up some extra produce or cookies for the neighbors.

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Necessary read

Revisado: 11-01-24

This isn't some crazy, out there culture. It's our culture, the shadow of patriarchy clawing at the seams of our society. Tia is reporting from the front lines, and while this is a hard read because she survived so much, it's a deeply poignant read because she shows a way to survive so much.

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good medicine for bad body days

Revisado: 10-28-24

This is a pure comfort read from the wise sister you wish you had. I'm trying to cram my head so full of body acceptance there won't be room for anything less, and Jes Baker is so helpful with that.

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should be required reading

Revisado: 10-23-24

This is The TRUTH writ large and maybe it's "depressing" but only because our society has been ignoring the facts and we have been gaslit into believing diets work. I'll be recommending this book to everyone who can handle some capital T Truth.

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outstanding takedown of diet culture

Revisado: 09-06-24

I have a fantasy of buying 100 copies of this book and littering doctor's offices, waiting rooms, and little free libraries with them. This message deserves to be spread like napalm burning through entrenched misogynist structures. Way to Go Kate Manne. Sign me up for your revolution.

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possibly my perfect book

Revisado: 03-08-24

As a deletist enthusiast, this book felt written for me. Well researched and original methods, sympathetic murderous characters, and engaging plots.

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Useless collection of testimonials

Revisado: 09-12-23

If you want storytime for 'why my system works' with next to zero useful information (it's buried in part 3 - skip ahead) this is for you. But I wanted an actionable instructive book on how to release stuck emotions, not a smattering of old suss methods of 'divining' - muscle testing etc. Save your money for a good shaman, skip the book.

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outstanding western

Revisado: 04-07-23

I love supernatural westerns and this is one of the best I've read. Great narration too.

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perfect narrators for my favorite characters

Revisado: 03-07-23

I read Between when it first came out and loved it - one of the most purely enjoyable reads of my life (and I read a lot). The main character Sasha is fun, smart, and reacts to bizarre events realistically (at least, like I would) and is not an idiot (my pet peeve in heroines). And the main male character also has reasonable reactions and motives and doesn't go around waving RED FLAGS that would send any reasonable romantic partner running (my pet peeve in love interests). Maybe that's why I find Between purely enjoyable - it doesn't trigger any of the usual annoyances, and instead, we get drunk unicorns, nefarious goats, and a small army of Granny Weatherwax-inspired elders. Ok, about the narration: There are two narrators (one for the Sasha sections, one for King Tight Pants) and both nailed it. Not an easy feat when these characters have been living in my head for a couple of years (we'll, pandemic years - could be longer, could be shorter, time is a construct). Give yourself the gift of pure joy and unsupervised livestock making bad life choices. Will you be asking yourself wtf during this novel? Yes. But in the sense of Where The Fudge Has This Book Been My Entire Life?

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mutton headed heroine

Revisado: 06-18-21

Good story, good twist, but the main character is useless. She shows no growth and is as shocked by everything at the end as she is on the beginning (at some point, when weird things continue to happen, you've got to get a bit jaded). She lacks agency and stays in perpetual victim mode. At least Medusa went down fighting.

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