MERYN MADE

  • BOOK REVIEW: NORMAL PEOPLE BY SALLY ROONEY

    A dedicated blog post for just one book? Yes. Because I have thoughts. There’s only a hand full of books I’ve read twice in my life, let alone twice in 4 months. But here were are, insert Sally Rooney’s Normal People. After seeing Normal People plastered all over bookstagram, Goodreads, and Book of the Month,… Read more

  • THANKSGIVING DAY REFLECTION: COVID-19

    It’s Thanksgiving Day, 2020. Here is what’s on my mind: I’ve spent a fair amount of time reflecting on the past few weeks and months living and working through the COVID-19 global pandemic. This public health crisis has brought forth a lot of change, for good and for bad – I find myself repeating this… Read more

  • BOOK REVIEW ROUND UP // VOLUME 1 ISSUE 9

    A review and rating of the last 5 books I read and a look into my TBR list Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex LifeAuthor: Emily NagoskiPublication Date: March 2015Genre: nonfiction, feminism, scienceMethod: paperback, borrowed from TPL Review: I’ll be honest, I had higher hopes for this one… Read more

  • CURRENTLY // OCTOBER 2020

    Reading // The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle, Urban Jungle by Igor Josifovic, The Mothers by Brit Bennett, The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard Planning // potentially to quit our… Read more

  • BOOK REVIEW ROUND UP // VOLUME 1 ISSUE 8

    A review and rating of the last 5 books I read and a look into my TBR list The Vanishing HalfAuthor: Brit BennettPublication Date: June 2020Genre: fiction, contemporary Method: digital copy via TPL Review: It was the first paragraph of chapter 5, for me. It was at this point I started recommending it to friends,… Read more

  • SNF PT POV: COVID-19 OCTOBER 2020 UPDATE

    In short, it sucks. I sob every day at work. Seriously, I sob. I sobbed at the first notice of positive patient cases. I sobbed when I watched a newly positive patient leave by stretcher for our sister facility. The fear and confusion on her face was enough to lead me into a near panic… Read more

Meryn is a thrifty physical therapist and book collector based in Ohio.