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I spent the last few years reading this book and testing out the rituals, including chakra cleanses that I completed before tying into guided kundalini exercises I love using on YouTube.

This has brought me intense joy, reflection and healing. Highly recommend for seasonal, monthly, and/or daily cycles of self-care.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

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3.75

For my romance series, I decided to get myself in the circus zone before the new year.

This is a dark story about a young man named Jacob who loses his family in a tragic accident and drops out of college. To survive, he begins working for the circus as a veterinarian for the animals.

His boss August is an evil man but his abused wife Marlena catches his attention. They grow closer once the circus purchases an elephant named Rosie. The three of them become an inseparable pair, protecting each other at all costs.

Plain Girl by Virginia Sorensen

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3.25

This YA story follows the life of an Amish girl named Esther who is forced to attend public school by the state. She struggles internally to not end up like her missing brother Dan (aka Daniel).

When she meets a girl named Mary, The Pink Girl, everything changes as she begins to see the world in a different way.

Can Esther find a balance between her Amish heritage and the outside world?

Midnights with the Mystic: A Little Guide to Freedom and Bliss by Cheryl Simone, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

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4.25

I got this book at Skooliepalooza this year, and made it a goal to finish it before the next one in 2025. Immediately was drawn to this book because of the Foreword from Richard from Texas who appeared in “Eat Pray Love.”

Guru Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s words of wisdom brought me joy as I worked through spiritual rituals of kundalini yoga to cleanse each chakra. I couldn’t put it down, but by the end, I was left wanting more. I suppose that was the point…

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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4.0

This memoir was heartbreaking and, honestly, a little traumatizing as the author dissects the relationship she had with her Korean mother before she died from cancer.

The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior

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4.25

Another politically charged book of essays about the BS of the Trump administration the first four years. There were lots of good nuggets in here that landed as food for thought but won’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

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5.0

Amanda Gorman is a poetry queen. This particular collection focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic and everything that came along with it.

I’ll let these quotes speak for themselves:

“What are we, if not what we see in another?”

“We might not be fully sure of all that we are. And yet we have endured all that we were.”

“Some days, we just need a place where we can bleed in peace. Our only word for this is Poem.”

“We mourn the past more than we miss it.”

“Often we cannot change without someone in us dying.“

“Words, too, are a type of combat, for we always become what we refuse to say.”

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feliciaclark's reviews 720 reviews

feliciaclark's reviews
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