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Moonflower

Kacen Callender

DID NOT FINISH

Looks great, but it's too emotional for me at the moment. I hope to come back to it when I'm in a stronger place. 

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Every Bird a Prince

Jenn Reese

DID NOT FINISH: 5%

Lost the book, and somehow didn't feel like picking it back up when I re-found it. 

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

DID NOT FINISH: 47%

too much pain. It's well written and the audio compellingly recorded, but the trauma got too heavy for me. 

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The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids, Helicopter Parents, and Other Phony Crises

Alfie Kohn

DID NOT FINISH: 23%

Even skimming, it was just too dully written, not conversational or interesting in the least. On the whole I think I agree with what he's saying, but I'm too bored to sit her and read more of him saying it. 

Children of the Quicksands

Efua Traoré

DID NOT FINISH: 47%

The story idea has great potential, but the writing is wooden and i can't get emotionally invested. 

The Lock-Eater

Zack Loran Clark

DID NOT FINISH

lost the book

A Comb of Wishes

Lisa Stringfellow

DID NOT FINISH: 37%

Got too heavy for me. 

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The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World

E.L. Konigsburg

DID NOT FINISH: 49%

other things grabbed my interest

Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers

Caela Carter

DID NOT FINISH

too triggery for me, in terms of how much self-hatred the child expresses. 

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A Court of Mist and Fury

Sarah J. Maas

DID NOT FINISH: 2%

Violent and bloody in the opening scenes

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