Candice Louisa Daquin reviews Kindra M Austin’s “Heavy Mental”.
Heavy Mental
Kindra M. Austin
Reviewed by Candice Louisa Daquin
So, here’s how you know something blows your mind. You’re not feeling it. You’re not feeling poetry, writing, literature, people publishing books, publishing, none of it. You are drained. You’ve read and edited and reviewed so much that you’re spent. A good person asks you if you will review their manuscript and you inwardly groan. You think; I really like this person, I want to support them, but I’m so over poetry, I’m all spent, can’t they tell that I wouldn’t know what to say? That I wouldn’t appreciate what they wrote? You say yes because you say yes to people you care about, that’s what you do and you inwardly groan again when you receive the manuscript because you’re still spent, you’re tired, you don’t want to read, everyone’s got a book and you can’t read another book if…
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