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Book Recommendations

Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly 
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls 
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebould
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer 
The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugendies

Movie Recommendations 

The Breakfast Club (1985)
Ten Things I Hate About You (1999)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (2010)
Big Eyes (2015)

Television Recommendations

Forensic Files (HLN)
Bones (ABC)
Castle (ABC)
Murder in the First (TNT)


Music Recommendations

Meghan Trainor
Regina Specktor 
 Imagine Dragons
Obviously, anything Coldplay 
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"You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.” 
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings 

“The world was hers for the reading.” 
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.” 
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls