Book review reflections from a white woman Read my book review article on Medium here: https://medium.com/@anniewindholz/hood-feminism-notes-from-the-women-that-a-movement-forgot-86ba8bec18e3
By G.S. Griffin If you live in Kansas City, put this book on hold at your local library immediately. It is exactly what I needed to read upon moving back to Kansas City. Frankly, I wish every city had such a book to tell the local history of racism, and highlight how it still persists… Read More Racism in Kansas City (Book Review)
OCD and the True Story of a Life in Thought by David Adam This is the best book I’ve ever read about Obsessional Compulsive Disorder; blending personal experience with research and including the words OCD, fear or basal ganglia in nearly every sentence, David Adam’s book “The Man Who Couldn’t Stop” has a way about… Read More The Man Who Couldn’t Stop (Book Review)
Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig I’ve been on a near obsessive quest to find all the books I can about Obsessional Compulsion Disorder, or OCD. Stemming from a center of the brain called the the basal ganglia, OCD is a brain disorder related to Tourette’s syndrome. If you’ve ever lived with someone… Read More Devil in the Details (Book Review and Musings)
My ongoing deep dive into the world of literary OCD Hurrah for OCD awareness advocacy- this is the first fiction book I’ve read with a character who has a brain like me, and it was important. A friend at work recommended I read it, and while I was at first deterred by the name of… Read More Turtles All the Way Down (Book Review)
A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Fletcher Wortmann I recently read Triggered by Fletcher Wortmann, and after finishing the book I would like to publicly come out as OCD. I have been telling people for years that I have anxiety- but anxiety is such a big umbrella term- and doesn’t really define what I have. What… Read More Triggered (Musings and Book Review)
A Novella by Han Kang The Vegetarian was a captivating piece that was almost too bizarre and toxic to put down. In the book Yeong-hye, a housewife, has a dream that horrifies her into becoming a vegetarian overnight. Her husband doesn’t understand, and neither does her family. As her behavior becomes increasingly alarming to all of… Read More The Vegetarian (Book Review)
By Herman Hesse Funny, engaging, can read in one sitting. Author Herman Hesse seems to be poking fun of himself in this book, with the main character, H.H., determined to write a novel about an enlightenment, but unable to realize his own blindness to the world’s answers. The author of Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, I have never… Read More The Journey To The East
By Herman Koch Written by Dutch author Herman Koch, I highly recommend The Dinner. It’s a haunting novel that involves two couples meeting for dinner at an upscale restaurant, and bookends the novel with appetizers and dessert, with a lot of unsavory darkness uncovered in the interim. “Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you… Read More The Dinner (Book Review)
By David Burr Gerrard This is by far one of the best books I have read in years, and it has also inspired me to start writing my own novel again. And that, I think, it what a brilliant book should always do. The Epiphany Machine follows the story of the main character, Venter Lowood,… Read More The Epiphany Machine (Book Review)
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