• Lists

    Blogging From A to Z Challenge – PTSD

    AtoZ Blogging Challenge Day 17

    When someone hears Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) they often think of soldiers returning from combat integrating back into civilian life. And although that does happen, PTSD can also occur from other traumatic events in a person’s life. I hope that this list shows characters with PTSD in an honest and…

  • Reviews

    Book Review: Wolf Hollow

    “The year I turned twelve, I learned how to lie. The year I turned twelve, I learned that what I said and did mattered.”  And with those words, you’ll meet Annabelle a 12-year old girl, living in rural Pennsylvania in the early 1940s.  Her life is fairly simple, helping her…

  • Reviews

    The Impossible Knife of Memory

    I’ll start by saying I read this book from cover to cover over a 12-hour time span – I couldn’t put it down.  I’m familiar with Laurie Halse Anderson, but mostly for her historical fiction works, I’ve never read Speak or Wintergirls, but I think I’m going to have to…