MERYN MADE

  • BOOK REVIEW ROUND UP // 6 MONTH UPDATE

    Never in a hundred billion years did I think I’d read 30 books in 6 months. Or obsess over book recommendations and bookstagrams accounts. Or stalk Reese’s Book Club and Book of the Month’s Instagrams for their monthly picks. But here we are. Like a lot of people, I found myself with more free time… Read more

  • CURRENTLY // SEPTEMBER 2020

    Reading // We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda, The Whisper Man by Alex North, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Verity by Colleen Hoover, The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim, Final Girls by Riley Sager, blogpost on white silence and white privilege linked… Read more

  • BOOK REVIEW ROUND UP // VOLUME 1 ISSUE 7

    A quick review and rating of the last 5 books I read and a look into my TBR list Mexican GothicAuthor: Silvia Moreno-GarciaPublication Date: June 2020Genre: horror, gothic, mystery Method: audiobook and ebook from TPL Review: Just finished reading author Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s notes and highlights on Goodreads and it’s an easy 5/5 for me. The… Read more

  • WHAT I’VE LEARNED IN MY FIRST 6 MONTHS, THEN 2 YEARS AS A PHYSICAL THERAPIST

    Happy National Physical Therapy Month! Long before I had the idea of starting this blog, I was working on a thoughtful and well-formatted running list of what I had learned in my first 6 months as a new grad physical therapist. I’ve made some minor tweaks, but the essence of that original writing rings true… Read more

  • TOP 15 INSPIRATIONAL + INFLUENTIAL BLACK PEOPLE

    One of the first blog posts I wrote, which I was initially very proud of given the amount of time invested, was titled TOP 20 INSPIRATIONAL + INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE, linked here. The blog post is essentially a collection of my favorite Instagram accounts at the time of March 2020. It never occurred to me the… Read more

  • BOOK REVIEW ROUND UP // VOLUME 1 ISSUE 6

    A review and rating of the last 5 books I read and a look into my TBR list The Woman in the WindowAuthor: A.J. FinnPublication Date: January 2018Genre: mystery, thriller, fiction Method: hardback, lent from a friend Review: Rating books is hard. I was less than impressed during chapter 1-93 and would rate those chapters… Read more

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