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Apr 5

Review of Inciting Joy by Ross Gay

Poet and essayist Ross Gay explores the experiences and explorations that have offered him meaning, depth, connection, understanding, and...

Jan 31

Review of Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) by Mindy Kaling

This is a funny, light, self-deprecating peek into Kaling's single motherhood, dabbling in Hinduism, love of brunch, life as a producer,...

Oct 18, 2022

Review of Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris

In and among Sedaris's oddball, incisive, skewering observations are poignant, funny, heartfelt, complicated moments from his personal...

Jun 30, 2022

Review of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott

While taking the reader through her children's health crises, Philpott considers the power of worry, of love, and of trying to let go and...

Jun 22, 2022

Review of The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

John Green provides a range of thoughtful, wonderfully absurd, or sentimental examinations along with his ratings on a five-star scale of...

Mar 23, 2022

Review of This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett

ICYMI: This five-star read--part memoir/part essay--is one of my favorite books of Ann Patchett's, and I didn't want her reflections and...

Jan 13, 2022

Review of Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard

In Jo Ann Beard's lovely essays and short stories, she writes honestly and beautifully about moments large and small, from the...

Nov 1, 2021

Review of The Best of Me by David Sedaris

This collection of previously published Sedaris works is a gold mine of discomforting, edgy, offbeat observations--with more heart than I...

Aug 26, 2021

Review of The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

Wilson's bubbly personality comes through in these essays, and her show business experiences were interesting, but I often couldn't...

Aug 23, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/23/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy's novel about a biologist fighting to reintroduce...

Apr 30, 2021

April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from April! In no particular order, here's the gist of each of the books I most loved reading during the past...

Apr 29, 2021

Review of The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

The Book of Delights is a sunshiny set of thoughts and examinations, yet it's not overly earnest, and it's never corny. I just loved it....

Apr 28, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/28/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book from Chris Bohjalian (author of Midwives), a historical fiction story Hour of the...

Jan 22, 2021

Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience

01 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee In the early 1900s, a teenager falls for a silver-tongued stranger on the coast of Korea. But when the...

Jan 12, 2021

Review of Untamed by Glennon Doyle

I love Glennon's heart and her honesty, but many of these essays ended too soon for me. Doyle, the bestselling author of Carry On,...

Jan 6, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/21 Edition

01 With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt In Leavitt's novel, published by Algonquin Books late last summer, Simon and Stella have been...

Jan 1, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/21 Edition

01 Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon It's the last day of high school, and nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled...

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