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I’m an IDCL Texas Storyscapes Community Fellow!

Q., June 26, 2025June 26, 2025

Super, SUPER stoked to be part of this program for the next year! The Institute for Diversity and Civic Life is a nonprofit organization dedicated to telling stories and documenting experiences of the endlessly diverse people living in Texas. I’m joining a group of multimedia storytellers, each of us working…

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Live Music Review | The Bright Light Social Hour & Friends @ The Mohawk | 6.21.25

Q., June 25, 2025June 25, 2025

Read my review of The Bright Light Social Hour’s epic summer solstice show on June 21, 2025 on The Cosmic Clash…

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TQL Podcast | S3E20 | Virginia Hernandez

Q., June 23, 2025June 24, 2025

Support The Qreative Life podcast through my Patreon, or via Paypal or Venmo (@AmandaQ555). In this episode, Q talks with her friend and former co-worker, photographer Virginia Hernandez. They discuss Virginia’s new venture, striking out as a full-time working creative, her latest creative partnership, the value of a creative community, and the importance…

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The Q Review | The Pisces | Melissa Broder

Q., June 23, 2025June 23, 2025

Now this is a story! I’d reserved a copy of Melissa Broder’s book The Pisces at the library, but since it wasn’t immediately available, I opted to start with her most recent release, Death Valley. I wasn’t impressed, but The Pisces came so highly recommended that I was still looking…

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The Q Review | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez

Q., June 19, 2025June 19, 2025

I’m not sure why I chose to pick up One Hundred Years of Solitude this year. I’ve a running list of classic literature that I incorporate into my regular reading. Primarily to compensate for my lack of education, but also because I enjoy understanding cultural references in art that have…

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The Q Review | Death Valley | Melissa Broder

Q., June 11, 2025June 23, 2025

This is my first encounter with Melissa Broder. I really want to read The Pisces, but it wasn’t available yet, so I put it on hold and opted for this one instead. I love surrealism, magical realism, unlikable characters, and the desert, so I figured I’d love this. It was…

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The Q Review | Rainwater | Sandra Brown

Q., June 9, 2025June 9, 2025

On the surface, this is the kind of book I would see online, post some snarky, cynical comment about, and then ignore. I’d never even heard of Sandra Brown, but the book was suggested as part of a ‘Texas writers’ book list, and the synopsis looked ok, and I urgently…

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The Q Review | Blazing Eye Sees All | Leah Sottile

Q., May 29, 2025May 30, 2025

I fucking love cults. Not joining them, of course. I was raised in one, so I expend an enormous amount of personal energy avoiding anything cult-like in my daily life and spiritual practice. However, it is undoubtedly due to my personal history that I have a morbid fascination with them….

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The Q Review | The Odyssey | Lara Williams

Q., May 23, 2025May 23, 2025

This book grabbed me by the lapels, shoved me up against the wall, and held me there for 36 hours until I finished it. Then, it let me go and I fell in a heap on the floor and spend the next day wondering what the fuck just happened. After…

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The Q Review | The St. Zita Society | Ruth Rendell

Q., May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

I watch a lot of murder-y shows, but I don’t read a lot of murder-y books. Ruth Rendell was unknown to me before I read The St. Zita Society. Apparently, she’s a beloved novelist of almost a hundred murder-y books, so it appears to be bad luck that introduced me…

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