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Leila Sales

April 7, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

This Song Will Save Your Life: Push by Matchbox Twenty, a guest post by author Leila Sales (Blog Tour)

I am a pretty huge fan of This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales. For one, it is about music, which I love, and how music can in fact save you. On Sunday we discussed some of the songs that have saved TLT. And tucked away in the pages of This Song Will […]

September 12, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The #SVYALit Project: Sexual Violence, Drinking and Date Rape Drugs (Triggers)

As the mom to an almost teenage girl, one of the things I am told over and over again is that I have to tell my daughter not to drink alcohol so that she doesn’t get raped. And it’s not just drinking alcohol and getting drunk that I have to tell her to worry about, […]

October 7, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales

This will be an interesting book review.  Let me give you a little context. One week before I read This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales, I stumbled across this ad at Buzzfeed: Basically, it launched an interesting discussion about sexism in the DJ community.  At the same time, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) […]

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