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Girl Gone Reading


Girl Gone Reading: Picking a bone w/ King on his birthday about Rovers
I understand authors, especially incredibly famous ones like Stephen King, may get a kick back for making book recommendations. Or maybe...

Heather C Fazio
Sep 21, 20211 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Survive the Night
I'm stumped. This is my first experience reading a book by author "Riley Sager "and I'm not quite sure what to think. I didn't love...

Heather C Fazio
Jul 11, 20212 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Black Boy Out of Time - A Memoire
*Language warning As I begin writing this review of Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad, I simply don't know if I have the words to...

Heather C Fazio
Feb 18, 20212 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Black Forest - it doesn't have to be October to enjoy horror
As with a lot of books I read lately, I picked this up as my monthly freebie for being an Amazon Prime member. Black Forest by author...

Heather C Fazio
Feb 17, 20212 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: The Other Wife
To title this review anything other than what it is would be giving away some of the unexpected story lines that unfold, albeit a bit...

Heather C Fazio
Jan 27, 20212 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: What would you do if you met an alien?
I'm sorry to say this is going to be one of those reviews where I'm hard pressed to give too much detail, because the devil is in those...

Heather C Fazio
Oct 15, 20202 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Best book I've read in a LONG time
Alright folks. This is going to be one of those book reviews that isn't really a review of the book because there isn't much I can tell...

Heather C Fazio
Aug 30, 20201 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: I suck at this.
I'm not good at self-promotion at all. I get uncomfortable even telling people about Girl Gone Smart, so instead I talk about the amazing...

Heather C Fazio
Aug 23, 20202 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Queenie - everything you need right now
I'm a huge fan of NPR and I listen most often while driving from Albany to my hometown; a four hour drive. I was lucky last week when one...

Heather C Fazio
Aug 12, 20202 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Just listen to the cops already
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard or read this in the last few months, I would be a rich woman. But the first time I read this...

Heather C Fazio
Jul 14, 20202 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: A Couch Named Marilyn
A while ago I put out a notice that I'm interested in hearing from local authors. Allow me to say how impressed I am by the talent we...

Heather C Fazio
Jul 8, 20203 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Homegoing, the divergent lives of a Ghanaian woman's decedents
When I first saw this book on a recommended reading site back in 2017, I added it to my never ending list of books to read. It was...

Heather C Fazio
May 1, 20203 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: The Other Einstein - another bad ass woman
I was so excited when this book, The Other Einstein, came out in 2016, but so much was going on in my life from then until 2018. I don't...

Heather C Fazio
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Rising Above a Toxic Workplace
Thrive or escape? I escaped and my health, both physical and emotional, drastically improved. "Toxic organizations are rife with...

Heather C Fazio
Apr 10, 20202 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: That f**king Wookie mask again... and a love story
Some how, some way, that video of the woman wearing the Wookie mask came across my social media account again. I may have laughed harder...

Heather C Fazio
Mar 4, 20203 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Red Queen Series
The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard is a post-apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, type of read – but also has a touch of a supernatural element....

Heather C Fazio
Feb 28, 20202 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Collarworld - A story of pets and love and the bond of forever
Local author Chuck Miller has penned a book I was hesitant to read and it's titled Collarworld. "Just beyond the mortal barriers of the...

Heather C Fazio
Feb 27, 20202 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Must read books by black authors for 2020
February has been an insane month with a lot of personal changes (for the better - and I will dig in soon to fill you in) so I apologize...

Heather C Fazio
Feb 13, 20202 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: Up for a porn star?
I read this book ages ago, 2004 to be precise, and I'm about to read it again. I'm making some pretty big personal decisions in the near...

Heather C Fazio
Jan 29, 20203 min read
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Girl Gone Reading: The Water Dancer
"We believed in the rumor, in the Underground." I'm not quite sure how to write about this novel in order to do it the justice it...

Heather C Fazio
Jan 4, 20202 min read
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