Genre: Non-Fiction

Braving the Wilderness

November 28, 2018 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Braving the Wilderness

Review Braving the Wilderness takes on the subject of belonging. I typically wouldn’t have picked up a book that to me, falls into the self-help category but I decided to give it a try as I work my way through Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Selections. I really had to slog my way through the book […]

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Jae Ellard Guest Post

April 29, 2016 Whitney Guest Post 2 Comments
Jae Ellard Guest Post

Guest Post I’m very excited to host the  Jae Ellard blog tour and share her excellent guest post on balancing it all. TIME AND BALANCE By Jae Ellard, Author of The Five Truths About Work-Life Balance, Simple Intentions Founder As a teacher and speaker on the topic of imbalance, it’s very common for people to […]

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Missoula by Jon Krakauer

June 15, 2015 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Missoula by Jon Krakauer

After finishing Missoula by Jon Krakauer I found it difficult to collect my thoughts. Thus, I decided to write short and sweet to keep my mind from jumping from thought to thought. The subject and its writing is powerful with chilling testimony and a heartbreaking story. Missoula by Jon Krakauer is a book that must […]

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Review: Unbroken

February 5, 2015 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Review: Unbroken

Fond of: Louie Zamperini led (good or bad) an incredible life.  I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone to contradict that.  It feels strange to say you are “fond of” a person being in a POW camp, going through the unimaginable, but Louie has grit and overcomes it, remaining “Unbroken”.  Not only […]

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Slimed! by Matthew Klickstein

January 3, 2014 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Slimed! by Matthew Klickstein

I am a child of the 90s.  I grew up on Rugrats, Clarissa Explains It All and Double Dare, in other words, I watched Nickelodeon.  Therefore, upon seeing Slimed, childhood nostalgia kicked in. Slimed is told in a segment of interviews from Actors, Producers and all the dreamers behind the scenes.  I found the order […]

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Review: Under The Banner Of Heaven

March 3, 2012 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Review: Under The Banner Of Heaven

To better understand these motives Jon Krakauer, the author flip-flops between the heinous, unbelievable actions of 1984 and the creation of the Mormon religion and its prophet, Joseph Smith. Discovering the golden plates and the start of the religion was very interesting but the disturbing subject of polygamy and how Fundamentalists behave then and now […]

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