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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

February 10, 2025 · Chapter Deep Dive, FICTION

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Electric Shock and Chill: Turning a Nursery into a Nightmare! When Yuval Noah Harari of the World Economic Forum called Brave New World “the most prophetic book of the twentieth century,” I didn’t simply dismiss the comment with an eye…

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Subliminal Messages:
Why Your Movie Queue Needs Prayer

December 27, 2024 · Miscellaneous, But Major

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Do you even know what subliminal messages are? Bless your naive heart. Picture it—you just got done watchin’ some epic movie or closin’ the back cover on a book that straight-up hijacked your emotions, right? You’re sittin’ there like, “OMG,…

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Cinderella
by The Brothers Grimm

April 12, 2024 · Fairytales & Fables

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The Soot-Stained Saint: When prayer grew a tree and the birds called out the frauds! Darlin’, I picked up the Grimm Brothers’ Cinderella thinkin’ I was in for a simple short story of sorcery and secret romance—maybe a gentle moral…

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Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

March 22, 2024 · Chapter Deep Dive, Fairytales & Fables

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When Nursery Rhymes Turn Violent Step into Chapter 6, where child care is chaos, dinner may kill you, and the cat’s the only one with any sense.   I cracked open Alice in Wonderland thinking I was in for a…

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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

March 2, 2024 · Chapter Deep Dive, FICTION

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Killer Dress… The Death of House Hamlet: In the royal court of Denmark, Ophelia was a fragile bloom caught amidst a thicket of ungodly men, whose hearts were poisoned with pride, greed, lust, and wrath. Like a lamb among wolves,…

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Rapunzel
by The Brothers Grimm

January 20, 2022 · Fairytales & Fables

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From Garden to Grief: The Sin That Grew Into a Tower Because sin never stays small—and neither do its consequences Okay, saints and sinners, gather ’round—because today’s tale isn’t just a fairy story, it’s generational trauma wrapped in garden herbs…

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Welcome to my blog... this is where we talk about the books that totally wrecked our mascara and maybe our morals. If I finish a novel and don’t instantly feel the urge to drop a voice note in my group chat like, ‘Y’all. This book!’—did I even read it?” Expect full-on, spoiler-rich breakdowns with a spiritual side-eye, character judgments, and the occasional “bless her heart” moment. If you’ve ever read a story and immediately wanted to whisper about it in the church kitchen—this is your sanctuary.

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The Last Unicorn
by Peter S. Beagle

Welcome to the Midnight Carnival: The hag that outshined the whole dang thang… bless it. When I picked up The Last Unicorn, my heart was already galloping. This was the story behind one of my favorite childhood films—talking butterflies, enchanted forests, a…

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Animal Farm
by George Orwell

Welcome to the Henhouse of Horror: It’s not fiction if we’re living it! At first glance, Animal Farm might look like a silly barnyard bedtime story—pigs on soapboxes, chickens forming committees, and horses quoting slogans like it’s the County Fair….

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl

Family, Chewed Up and Spit Out: The Brat Who Stole the Show (and Her Mother’s Dignity) in the Most Disturbing Chapter Roald Dahl Ever Wrote!   There are two kinds of folks in this world: the ones who read Charlie…

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