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Quit Like a Woman, Alia’s Spring Book Review 2024

                “The goal here is to create a situation you no longer have to escape, or a life you don’t have to numb. The achievement of sobriety is not the point, it’s a by-product of the work. The work is the point. Addiction is the hook that gets you in the door, and quitting is the catalyst to heal deeper wounds.” Holly Whitaker writes in her powerful non-fiction book, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical…

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Alia’s Summer Book Review: “Page Boy: A Memoir” by Elliot Page

               Elliot Page’s biography came out in June of this year by Flatiron Books. I could see from the cover that Elliot no longer presents as the “starlet actress” Ellen Page I remembered fondly from blockbuster hits, “Juno” and “Whip It.” I have since learned that Elliot was the first openly transman to be featured on the cover of Time magazine in March 2021. I found his gender transition to be intriguing and wondered what…

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