MERYN MADE

Author: merynmade

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • CURRENTLY // AUGUST 2020

    Reading // All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda, Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, The Night Swim by Megan Goldin, Normal People by Sally Rooney, The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn, Lock Every Door by Riley Sager…

  • BOOK REVIEW ROUND UP // VOLUME 1 ISSUE 5

    A quick review and rating of the last 5 books I read and a look into my TBR list All the Missing GirlsAuthor: Megan Miranda Publication Date: June 2016Genre: mystery, thriller, fictionMethod: hardback, lent from a friend Review: Gotta be honest, kinda disappointed in this one. I loved the concept…

  • BOOK REVIEW ROUND UP // VOLUME 1 ISSUE 4

    A quick review and rating of the last 5 books I read and a look into my TBR list Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy WorldAuthor: Cleo WadePublication Date: October 2019Genre: poetry, nonfiction, self help, inspirational, social justiceMethod: audiobook via…

  • 2020 ONE LITTLE WORD — MID-YEAR UPDATE

    1.meryn made blog Status: GOAL MET → CONTINUEI mean obviously, since you’re reading this blogpost right now. But honestly, I don’t know if I would have actually taken the plunge and started this personal blog without the onset of a global pandemic this past March. I didn’t really know what…