Give Me Everything You’ve Got — A Summer Book Review
The perfect writer’s retreat, Ellen’s house is a signal of hope for Ruby. The house is vast with the only other occupants being Ellen and her adult daughter Lara. Ruby craves approval from Ellen and even Lara, but she can’t seem to impress them, let alone figure out the dynamic between the elusive mother-daughter duo.
Fair Rosemarie
She sits in quiet disbelief at the table where cards are spread, offering her but scant relief from the sense of coming dread…
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Relating to Others With The Call of the Wild
Buck is a survivor: Through good times and hardships, and from master to master, he perseveres, offering readers a story of humanity through the actions of a dog. Buck shows more humanity than many of the human characters.
Living in a Burning Tower
Living with you is living in a burning tower
Smoke billowing out the windows
as flames engulf all we built together
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July 25, 2026
The perfect writer’s retreat, Ellen’s house is a signal of hope for Ruby. The house is vast with the only other occupants being Ellen and her adult daughter Lara. Ruby craves approval from Ellen and even Lara, but she can’t seem to impress them, let alone figure out the dynamic between the elusive mother-daughter duo.
July 24, 2026
She sits in quiet disbelief at the table where cards are spread, offering her but scant relief from the sense of coming dread…
July 22, 2026
Here’s a secret: Essays are just worksheets without the boring worksheet format; they’re a process of answering dozens of questions and putting the answers together like puzzle pieces to form a coherent argument.
July 21, 2026
Buck is a survivor: Through good times and hardships, and from master to master, he perseveres, offering readers a story of humanity through the actions of a dog. Buck shows more humanity than many of the human characters.
July 21, 2026
Living with you is living in a burning tower
Smoke billowing out the windows
as flames engulf all we built together
July 18, 2026
Tapas Rueful is a quick read but each poem holds much depth. Each line could provoke lively discussions among people that live in that area; however, the beauty of the scenes invites all readers. The poems wrapped me, a foreigner to this land, in a warm blanket of mysterious outcomes and joyful freedom as the Ibis walked gently across the pages.
July 16, 2026
The comet is disappointing.
They promised, this time,
Bright and true, in daylight,
We’d see a trail half across
A bewildered sky.
July 13, 2026
Of fragile flesh they rise, then sink to clay,
Their moments framed by gazes keen and bright.
Adored they blaze, then slowly pass away,
Perhaps too long they lingered in the light.
July 10, 2026
I’ve broken free, escaped, and found my way
into a maze of books and magazines.
No minotaur shall hunt me in this place.
July 7, 2026
Drawing on a deep well of creativity, she has written for a wide variety of genres. Short stories, flash fiction, children’s fiction, and non-fiction are among her favorite written formats.
July 6, 2026
Somewhere nearby
A pigeon coos
A sinuous speech above me
As I lie sprawled on my bed
Near the windowpane
Where sunlight still spells warmth…
July 4, 2026
Barbeques are manned by men
in their fresh, well-manicured lawns
while laughing children play freeze tag,
babies recline in Mom’s embrace,
and hotdogs populate every plate.
July 3, 2026
The world of Elio adds another visual treat to Pixar’s vast repertoire. Communiverse, the planet where Elio finds himself, exists as a breathtaking kaleidoscope of colors, abundant in unique alien species and advanced technology.
June 27, 2026
The Messy Years by Alexandra Slater is about three best friends — Maeve, Lizzie, and Hadley — navigating their thirties, the “messy” years of adulthood. A friendship formed in college, the trio each live different lives, but remain close, sharing every secret and struggle with one another.
June 27, 2026
June 26, 2026
I like that epigram’s a short
or witty aphorism sort,
that’s meant to make a reader laugh.
It’s not a thing with epigraph.
June 25, 2026
A few minutes into my walk, something caught my eye, and I stopped. Just ahead, two or three feet away, three butterflies hovered over the path…
June 24, 2026
I was on my first solo trip in Japan. I had arrived in the country as a researcher, full of ambition, and had spent several months being systematically humbled by both the language and the experiments. Nagano felt like a necessary exhale; somewhere to exist without obligation…
June 23, 2026
The intellectual examination of food and eating captivated me, and more so as it coupled with relatable and intimate moments from Husain’s life.
June 22, 2026
