Book Reviews

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In a season that is consumed with parties and presents, we decided to slow things down by reviewing Walt Whitman’s book of poetry, Leaves of Grass.

Seasonal affective disorder is real, and that’s why we thought it was important to talk about a book that broached mental health before it was a socially acceptable topic of conversation. This month we decided to talk about one of our all-time favorites and a true classic: “The Bell Jar.”

This collection of nonfiction short stories serves as Winik’s autobiography as told through, as the back of the book describes it, “snapshot portraits of the departed.”