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 can’t believe it, but this blog, Broke by Books, is ten years old last month! I started this book blog as
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I’m back to blogging! It’s been an eventful last sixteen months as I have had to decide which way to pivot after this blog, my beloved Broke by Books, has seen a catastrophic collapse in traffic after I, like many,
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It took me five months to finish HBO’s Game of Thrones, but finish it I did last Sunday. I loved the first season and was ambivalent about the second and third, but damn,
MoreI have recently taken strides to revive my personal journal writing. It’s hella cheap therapy and can be really revealing and healing to just do stream of conscious on a question that
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“Love story” is the most populated shelf on my Goodreads account. I freakin love stories about love and cannot get enough. My favorite stories are those that depict love that is just
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Being bipolar myself, I have a natural interest in reading stories about mental illness in fiction and nonfiction. My mental illness shelf on Goodreads is one of my most populated. So today
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It’s been five years since I read The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt’s third novel and a book that launched me on my bookish career. It was dealing with the severe book hangover after finishing
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As I have mentioned in an earlier post, I have been struggling with anxiety lately. One of the things that has always helped me “calm down” is throwing myself into an elaborate
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Jill Mansell “Three Amazing Things About You” Review: Three Stars OK, I’m struggling with how I feel about this book. I feel mixed. And let me tell you why. At times, this
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Okay…my Rx Romance kick has continued and shows no signs of stopping. I have some non-romance reviews coming up but for now, strap in ladies and gentlemen as I devour some romance!
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If you look at my Goodreads shelves, you will see that apart from shelves for designating a year I read a book, the most populated shelf is “Love Story.” Since I was
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Bow down…I did it. I finished my reading goal to read 52 books in 2014. I can safely say that was more books than I’ve ever read in one year of my
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