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May 16·edited May 16Liked by Ashley Holstrom

This is wonderful, Ashley -- I so appreciate your focus on mental health and all the different booklists you've come up, from many different angles. Brava! 🤌

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Thank you so much, friend. This means a lot. Love you.

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May 16Liked by Ashley Holstrom

Love you too 🩷

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Thanks for the recs! Looking forward to checking them out.

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Thanks for reading, Cat!

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May 16Liked by Ashley Holstrom

I’m loooving the sound of ‘The Hole’!!! It’s giving me similar vibes to ‘The Woman in the Dunes’ that I read in March - the similarities being stuck in holes and written by Japanese authors. What does she contemplate in the hole? Is it horror or more existential?

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I haven’t gotten that far yet! 😅 So far the vibes are just unsettling, not super horror.

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May 17Liked by Ashley Holstrom

Hahaha okay I’ll wait for a final verdict when you’re done!

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Okay, update: It's a surreal, existential sort of book. Strange but good!

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Ooo count me in! Appreciate the update - I enjoy an existential vibe x

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I may or may not have burst into tears just reading the title "Everything Is an Emergency" because oof is that me. Grabbing that one right now. Thank you, friend <3

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It might change your life? But read with care. 🩷

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