She saw the world not always as it was, but as perhaps it could be.
— Cinderella
📖 3 Books That Changed My Brain Chemistry Forever 📚 Book Recommendations
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📖 3 Books That Changed My Brain Chemistry Forever 📚 Book Recommendations

I’ve had a lot of books come into my life and fully change it—so this is hardly a comprehensive list. If I made a full list of books that altered my brain chemistry forever, this would be less of a blog post and more of a novel in-of itself. So for the sake of brevity, I’m only going to talk about 3 of the many books that have changed my brain chemistry forever. There is a higher-than-average chance that I might do more lists following this one that will include the others, but for now here are the three that have been on my mind lately.

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Don’t Let the Forest In 🍄🌲🍂 A Book Review
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Don’t Let the Forest In 🍄🌲🍂 A Book Review

Hello Folk of the Hollow!

So back in the summer, I had stumbled upon the Instagram page of author C.G. Drews and, after browsing for a bit, found their (I’m not 100% sure on the pronouns that this author goes by, so instead of accidentally using the wrong ones I figure it would be okay to stick with ‘they’. I’m also pretty sure the author goes by ‘they / them’ pronouns anyway but again, not positive)

I read about half the book and decided I couldn’t finish it—because this felt more like an autumn book than a summer book! I knew that if I finished it in the summer, it would be forever locked in my mind as a “summer” book, and I wanted this to be one I reached for in the autumn. So I begrudgingly put this one aside until the leaves started changing and the temperature began to drop. When the time came to finally be able to pick up my autumn reading list , this was the first book I went for.

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