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Bella’s 2025 Year in Books
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Bella Bankes
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Athens, Ohio, The United States
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Hello! 2025 Thus Far.
It has been quite sometime since I wrote any blogs or shared anything substantial on social media. In 2020, I made the decision to leave Facebook, and have begun the process of slowly navigating away from Instagram, in search of new ways to show up as an artist online. Goodreads is one place I've been hanging out, and although I have a newsletter on Substack (dreamfield.substack.com), I've been a
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is 50% done with Country People: I’m genuinely obsessed with Mason’s writing voice 💕
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
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While I appreciated the socioeconomic points and history the author went out of her way to make, it wasn’t fused into the story. Slow burn. I do see where this book could have gone, maybe even where Eisenberg was trying to go. |
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| Not great for someone just looking to learn about Catholicism. Sometimes divisive language. For someone converting to Catholicism there are decent explanations. The language isn’t as mature as I would have liked it to be. The author uses personal opi ...more | |
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| Doesn’t have the mature style (language / vocabulary, etc) I would have hoped for. | |
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| Something about the writing style reminds me (in moments) of Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. However, I don’t feel that any of the book points to joy in a way that incites it. The concept is lovely, but the book fails to deliver. I think the footnotes ...more | |
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
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While I appreciated the socioeconomic points and history the author went out of her way to make, it wasn’t fused into the story. Slow burn. I do see where this book could have gone, maybe even where Eisenberg was trying to go. |
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| This book feels very jumbled, pulling in familiar quotes and rather obvious techniques that most people have already heard about. This book was recommended on a website which listed the top 5 books for 2022 (unfortunately I didn’t bookmark that post) ...more | |
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| When I started seeing themes such as “people are mirrors” and “happiness is a choice,” I had a feeling it wasn’t quite the right fit for what I expected out of the book. I agree with other reviewers that these aren’t actually essays. The lists were v ...more | |
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| Not quite what I expected. I’m not much a fan of coming of age centered novels. Pretty nature writing, though! | |
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