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Happy Birthday to Me: On Turning Thirty-Five
Today is my birthday. I am thirty-five.
As I woke up this morning, swallowing the reality that I am nearly halfway through my life, I asked myself: How did I get here? And maybe more importantly: Where is here?
I am an adult. That’s what thirty-five means. Not
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$17.00 – $37.00Five years ago, Lauren Martin was sure something was wrong with her. She had a good job in New York, an apartment in Brooklyn, a boyfriend, yet every day she wrestled with feelings of inferiority, anxiety and irritability. It wasn’t until a chance encounter with a (charming, successful) stranger who revealed that she also felt these things, that Lauren set out to better understand the hold that these moods had on her, how she could change them, and began to blog about the wisdom she uncovered. It quickly exploded into an international online community of women who felt like she did: lost, depressed, moody, and desirous of change.
Writers & Lovers
Writers & Lovers follows Casey–a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist–in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King’s trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.
Trust Exercise: A Novel
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed–or untoyed with–by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley.
Where the Crawdads Sing
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The Story of the Lost Child
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Quarantine: A Remedy for Stalking
For most, this COVID-19 quarantine lockdown comes as an inconvenience, cutting you off from the rest of the world and physical human contact— or, forcing you to work under insanely stressful scenarios. For me, though, it comes as a welcome gift. There’s nothing like the government mandating that everyone stay indoors as a way to […]
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I just came back home a month and a half ago when this whole COVID-19 hell broke loose. I am graduating this semester, and although the quarantine news felt like the holly gospel sang by squishy baby angels, it meant I had to pack the past four years in two suitcases and get the hell […]
Dear Anxiety, it’s time for you to leave.
Anxiety is defined as being ” a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome”. I often felt like anxiety is more like a fake friend who doesn’t let you do and enjoy a lot of things. One day, I decided to write her a story. A story of goodbye. ” […]