Sarah S. Davis is the founder of Broke by Books, a blog about her journey as a schizoaffective disorder bipolar type writer and reader. Sarah's writing about books has appeared on Book Riot, Electric Literature, Kirkus Reviews, BookRags, PsychCentral, and more. She has a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Library and Information Science from Clarion University, and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
I’m back to blogging! It’s been an eventful last sixteen months as I have had to decide which way to pivot after
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Welcome to my roundup of the Best Books of 2023! Wow, can you believe it’s nearly 2024? I’ve mostly had a pretty good year, packed with great reading, a good amount of writing, and a little bit of blogging, although
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Hey, there! Holiday romance lover. Be sure to check out this year’s list of the 15 best Christmas romance books for 2019. I absolutely love the Christmas season and find it the
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I talk about depression and bipolar on here, and I talk about book blogging on here, but today I want to talk about where the two intersect. I’m in no way an
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Now that my MFA program has started, I’m reading and writing more than ever, but it’s harder to make it to my blog to update as much as I want to, so
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Well, since I arrived back in Philadelphia from Montpelier, Vermont, a little over one month ago, I think it’s finally time to write my wrap-up of my first residency at Vermont College
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I’ve known I wanted to be a writer as long as I knew what a writer was, which means as far back as the first time I read Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy.
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Ah, the eternal question: How many books should I read in a year? This post has been stewing in my mind for longer than I’ve had this blog, which is almost four
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The tarot is misunderstood to be a frivolous science, when in fact learning tarot is a lifelong, personal journey through the wisdom of the ages, aka history, religion, mythology, symbolism, and much
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Like books, tea is a life force for me. I’m obsessed with the ritual of tea, everything from selecting a blend of tea to drink to the percussive, smooth sound of pouring
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Every time a book smashes genre conventions, literature evolves. Authors who fearlessly push against help genres progress rather than stagnate. That doesn’t mean it’s always comfortable to experience, but, indeed, the controversy
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If you are finding yourself in a reading slump, think about ways you can still engage in the arts and reconnect with reading. I busted out of a recent period of the
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