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*The following review for Disfigured On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space contains Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon affiliate I earn a commission on qualifying purchases. Within Disfigured On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space author Amanda Leduc explores western fairy tales and the role disability plays in the narrative. As Leduc explains in…
This review for Disability Visibility First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century contains Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon affiliate I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. Shocking, emotional, and relatable all describe Disability Visibility First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. An anthology giving a multifaceted look into the disabled experience, Disability Visibility provides representation for the…
The following book review for Beyond the Finish by Brent and Kyle Pease includes Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases. Beyond the Finish by Brent and Kyle Pease sets forth to tell the authors’ tale about becoming world champion ironmen. The brother duo doing so as a team. An…
*Links to the Amazon sales page for If At Birth You Don’t Succeed by Zach Anner are affiliated links. As an Amazon affiliate I earn a commission on qualifying purchases. Hilarious yet heartfelt just begins to describe Zach Anner’s memoir If At Birth You Don’t Succeed. The author’s name may sound familiar. Anner did convince…
A perk to running your own blog entails receiving the occasional complimentary item to review. Recently I received such an item from Beaufort Books. In exchange for an honest review the company sent me a 20th anniversary edition of A Walk for Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail by Jeff…
Cerebral palsy manifests differently per person diagnosed with the condition. This fact makes CP memoirs especially interesting to read. Certain insights resonate with you while others become lessons learned. Exactly my experience reading Determination: What I’m All About by Denise Ghizzone! As a cerebral palsy advocate, I am eager to learn about my CP peers’…
Links to I’m Special and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves by Ryan O’Connell are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon affiliate, I earn a commission on qualifying purchases. Reading I’m Special and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves by Ryan O’Connell stirred mixed emotions. Amazon categorizes the read under “humor.” The book description in-part reads “This…
“I made it.” You can read those words different ways. One perspective relieves. Relief you survived an ordeal. Alternatively the words can represent a rally cry. Victory remains yours! You triumphed. You thrived. The latter stands the appropriate way to perceive Juana M. Ortiz’s memoir title, I Made It. For Ortiz she triumphed in multiple…
Blogger’s Note- This week I go back to my writing archives and re-publish my review for Shane Michael Taylor’s audio book Living This Rodeo: A Journey From Fantasy to Reality*. The review originally appeared on the now defunct Yahoo! Voices. While I first listened to Living This Rodeo four years ago, I still carry with…
Links to Someone Like Me by John W, Quinn are Amazon affiliated links. As an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Blogger’s Note- The following I first published back in 2011 at the now defunct website Yahoo! Voices. Since I highly recommend John W. Quinn’s Someone Like Me: An Unlikely Story of Challenge and…