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  • Muffin Wallopers: A Book Group for Gals
  • Review: Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe’s First Family

    Thank you NetGalley and Viking for the review copy of Veronica Buckley’s very interesting book “Seven Sisters.”    Pretty much everyone knows who Marie Antoinette… Read more.

  • Cookbook Review: The Whole30 Fast & Easy Cookbook Revised Edition

    Thank you NetGalley and William Morrow for the advance review copy of The Whole30 Fast & Easy Cookbook (Revised); it is greatly appreciated. This book… Read more.

  • Adriaen Coorte by Ed Leeflang

    Painter of asparagus and raspberries,he’s added lemons too and gooseberriesin tangible magnificence.He sets them down, depicts their shape.A rigid order they communicate,stubbornness that helps the… Read more.

This is the Mask

This is the mask.
My mask.
It hides my scars: The scared girl I was.
The scared woman I am.
The seeker that never finds what she is looking for and wonders if she is even worthy to know.
This is the mask.
My mask.
It lets me pretend
It lets me believe
It lets me feel strong, look strong, be strong.
Until I take it off.

~Nicole Kapise Perkins

“Words made faerie tales.”

— le thi diem thuy

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  • Review: Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe’s First Family

    Apr 9, 2026
  • Cookbook Review: The Whole30 Fast & Easy Cookbook Revised Edition

    Apr 9, 2026
  • Adriaen Coorte by Ed Leeflang

    Apr 9, 2026

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