When I Should Be Studying

Reasons For Reading This Book: Over the last couple of years I have seen The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett in almost every bookstore I have entered. The cover is very captivating. Recently I thought about it again and decided to look at the description of the book to see if I would be interested in reading it. The description mentioned that two of the main characters were female twins, after I read that I knew I had to read it. If you did not know I have a twin sister and have read a number of books about twins over the years. It has been awhile since I read one and the rest of the description interested me so I checked it out from the library. Content of This Book: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, o...

Reasons For Reading This Book: Jackie Oshry from The Toast and The Readheads has recommended this book multiple times. What really interested me from what she said about Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton was that Paris wrote it in the way she thinks and speaks. This may not sound different from any other memoir, but it is. Paris Hilton has ADHD and writes the book in the way her brain processes and expresses things. This is of particular interest to me because I also have ADHD. As someone who has had to learn to edit myself to prevent my ADHD from showing in my writing, I was curious to read what it is like for Paris to just write with little editing of the tangents, run-on sentences and jumping from story to story. I am a little too young to have really experienced Paris Hilton in her hay-day, but I did have general knowledge on her and her family but mostly just about recent events prior to reading her memoir. Content of This Book: Some may know her as an heiress, party girl, self...