Book Cult

We are finally back with another StoryTime that of course includes a Grimms Fairytale and also a trip to Sweet Valley California where we learn a secret language that isn't really a secret because 6th graders are evil

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Could you love someone who woke up in a different body every day? What about if you were 16 years old? It's not as easy as it sounds, 16 year olds are not very reliable. Either way this book is cute and a GOP nightmare so you should all read it.

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Right after recording this the Southern Poverty Law Center did classify them as an anti-government group so yes, officially this beotches be crazy and do suck hardcore. Like they are terrible people who pretend that it is okay to be homophobic if you have a kid.

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If you want to live in Paris, spend months in Tokyo and have a boyfriend who acts like a pioneer woman, then you will ant to read this David Sedaris classic. This book will make you question America's anti-smoking laws and get grossed out over leg worms, it truly has it all!

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We are back with more book banning but this time the authors are fighting back. PEN America along with Penguin Random House, several authors, and two concerned parents are suing Escambia County School District in Florida for their banning of books solely based on the ideological beliefs of the person complaining about them. There are so many crazy details and great agruments against the absurd nature of these bans that it is worth a listen and a share.

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Enter the world of horrific "cures" for the rich, talented, and wrongly diagnosed at McLean Mental Hospital. If you have read The Bell Jar or Girl, Interrupted then you have already read about this famous hospital but probably don't know it's wild (and dark) history.
TW: Suicide

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I got a book in the mail and it was warning me about the end times! If you live in a major city you too might have been blessed to have recieved The Great Contorversy, the book orignally written by the vision seeing prophet and co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist church, EG White! Is it an attempt to covert people or is it an attempt to get donations? Only the grifters will know.

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After this you might want to revise your bucket list. We read Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer. It is tragic and sometimes hard to read so trigger warning for death.

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Writers all over the country are currently on striking demanding fair pay for their work. With AI becoming more prevalent it is more important than ever to make sure we support writers and artists. Please go to entertainmentcommunityfund.org/donate if you want to help out.

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YIKES! In the final installment of the Fifty Shades Series by EL James we get a lot of questionable choices made by James. Most notably, her knowledge of the distance between the states of Washington and Colorado. You can contact the domestic abuse hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or text SAFE to 88788

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