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by Lorilin
Posted on January 25, 2021April 24, 2021

The Character Edge

by Lorilin
Posted on December 30, 2020January 22, 2021

My Favorite Books of 2020

by Lorilin
Posted on December 29, 2020March 29, 2021

Jingle Wars

by Lorilin
Posted on December 22, 2020January 22, 2021

Brave(ish): A Memoir of a Recovering Perfectionist

by Lorilin
Posted on December 21, 2020April 24, 2021

This Time Next Year

by Lorilin
Posted on December 18, 2020December 16, 2020

Empire City

by Lorilin
Posted on December 17, 2020December 16, 2020

A User’s Guide to Democracy

by Lorilin
Posted on December 16, 2020December 16, 2020

Shattered Glass

by Lorilin
Posted on December 16, 2020

Bestiary

by Lorilin
Posted on December 11, 2020April 24, 2021

The Conscious Closet

by Lorilin
Posted on December 10, 2020January 22, 2021

Crazy Stupid Bromance

by Lorilin
Posted on December 8, 2020December 7, 2020

Meek Women

by Lorilin
Posted on December 7, 2020January 22, 2021

How to Fail at Flirting

by Lorilin
Posted on October 29, 2020January 22, 2021

The Wives

by Lorilin
Posted on October 28, 2020April 16, 2021

An Almost Zero Waste Life

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I’m Lorilin, a stay-at-home mom in Chicago who reads books to stay sane. Even though I spend most of my day looking after my lovely and wild children, I always make time to read—mostly fiction, wellness, and memoir, with a few cookbooks and gardening books thrown in the mix.

I rate all books on a scale of one to five ladybugs, so my favorites will have these little guys floating by the title 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞.

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Oh, this was a sad one. WHAT STORM, WHAT THUNDER follows a group of people in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastates the city. We hear from a mother who loses her entire family, a wealthy expat and his daughter, a drug trafficker, and an old market woman who bears witness to ALL THE TRAGEDY. This is one of those books you read to learn about something you knew nothing about but should have (at least for me). The writing is beautiful, and—this is cliche to say, but I’ll say it anyway—I was transported while reading it. I felt like I was right there beside these characters. I knew them and cared for them. It really helped me understand how devastating the destruction in Haiti really was after the earthquake.

This is the first year I’m listening to the advice of @roy_diblik_ (author of THE KNOW MAINTENANCE GARDEN) and turning my clean yard waste directly back into nourishing mulch. All you have to do is make piles of fallen leaves and then mow over them with your regular lawnmower. Then you can redistribute the leaf pieces wherever you want. I kept most of mine on the lawn, but I also put a lot in a back corner of my property that is honest-to-God pure clay soil 😵‍💫 and needs A LOT of organic matter. We’ll see if it makes a difference come spring, but I’m pretty happy with myself right now, can’t lie. What do you do to get your yard winter ready?

REPEAT AFTER ME…

AFTER is a book I read after my FIL passed away last year. It’s a fascinating exploration of what happens to our consciousness after we die (spoiler alert: it probably doesn’t just cease to exist). Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Bruce Greyson has collected and studied decades-worth of data from people who were pronounced clinically dead but then came back. This isn’t a woo-woo New Age-type book. It is well researched and beautifully articulated by someone with many, many years of experience in this pioneering field.

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