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.
Dear reader, I can’t believe 2025 is over! My main goal for 2025 was not so much to reach a number of
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Autumn is basically here, but this list of the best new books fall 2025 has to offer heralds the unofficial start to the season. What is better than books, falling leaves, cozy blankets, and hot tea? Not much! Here’s my
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You might not know it from when you first meet me–given that I am bitter, cynical, sarcastic, and hard around the edges–but I am a total romantic at heart. I was overjoyed
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Well summer is officially here. My classes are done and major work projects wrapped up. The last few weeks were intense, with finals going straight into wrapping up a major freelance assignment.
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Wow, I reached the point where I felt suffocated by the walls of my house the other day. It’s been a nonstop grind going straight from finals into wrapping up a writing
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Ermagod. Benedict Cumberbatch…whatever you think about his appearance, nobody can deny that he has one of the sexiest voices in the world. Seriously, he could send me into a hot sweat if
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If director Wes Anderson’s films were novels, there would be midnight release parties at bookstores around the world each time an Anderson-penned hardback hits the shelves. Your friend who always dresses up
MoreIt 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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