Simply-Kayla

  • My Mystery Girl

    My Mystery Girl

    Dreams will always be unfair to you- yet I hope to never stop dreaming.

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  • As Long As It Makes Everyone Else Happy

    Why do we always have to find a love, Always out to search, always on the prowl. Being alone with nothing else to think of, Hunting throughout the night like a starved owl. The selfish hunt that consumes our one life, Meant to end in fulfillment – but instead, Eats our time to find a…

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  • “Of Women and Salt” by Gabriela Garcia

    A lot of interesting stories crammed into one. Read Review Below Rating: ★★ I only say this book was ok because I wanted more. Gabriela Garcia weaves together stories and histories of a family of Cuban women, but we needed more story (especially from Dolores, her absent mother, Cecilia, and Maria Isabel). We needed more…

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  • Read At Your Own Risk

    Read At Your Own Risk

    My Mother used to read my journal. I think she only did it a few times – but those were the only times I caught her. As you may expect a pre-teen to react when one finds out their secrets were unleashed, I became dramatically upset. However, my anger was immediately overshadowed by the red…

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  • “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Future” by Merlin Sheldrake

    Entangled Life: How Fungi will eventually save us, or annihilate us. Read Review Below Rating: ★★★★★ Merlin Sheldrake introduces us to mycology in “Entangled Life”. Although just a sliver of knowledge, it was amazing to read how many types of fungi are out there, and what they are capable of (which can be pretty terrifying).…

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  • Keep Running

    Keep Running

    What keeps you going?

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  • “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson

    Deep breaths required. Read Review Below Rating: ★★★★★ …it is the older Germans who were there who should feel guilt. We were not here. We ourselves did not do this. That is what a lot of us tell ourselves in regard to the 400 years of slavery, and even the continued racial segregation pre-Civil Rights…

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  • Tissue Paper Attacks!

    Tissue Paper Attacks!

    Everyone around me continues to barricade the windows and padlock the doors. Curiously, they are most concerned with stuffing towels into every crack and crevice they find. I stand there watching them in wonderment. “Okay, we must be trying to keep something out. A gas??” Someone looks back at my frozen self, “What are you…

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  • “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama

    Definitely for a history buff – which is not me. Read Review Below Rating: ★★ Alright, I may have to remove other books written by Presidents/ex-Presidents off my To-Read list – this genre just isn’t for me. What I Disliked: 1. About 75% of the book was about politics – and I hate politics. You’re…

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  • “Oona Out of Order” by Margarita Montimore

    Finally, a twist with time travel. Read Review Below Rating: ★★★ My Mother bought me this book for Christmas. I had never heard of it before, and it took awhile for me to pick it up to read. Eventually I got there and was very surprised when I realized the story involved time travel. Without…

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