

Review of I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
A book I loved, in case you missed it! O’Farrell’s meditations on the precious nature of life felt new, honest, raw, and fascinating. We...
Mar 15, 2021


Six Books about Brave Female Spies
Tough women, secrets and smarts, and sneaky spying! I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books offers that very thing. Only...
Mar 12, 2021


Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire
01 The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld This book is dark and beautiful, with such expansive descriptions of the mountains, the closed-in...
Feb 12, 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 22, 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 12, 2021


Review of Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
Here For It is refreshing and playful yet thoughtful. I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas. In Here for It: Or, How...
Jan 5, 2021


Shhh! More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens
This is my last book gift guide of the holiday season. I hope these lists (see links below) may have helped you find a book or two for...
Dec 11, 2020


Review of The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose
Nothing happened in McMinn County unless the corrupt Machine profited by it...until the local GIs returned home from World War II and...
Dec 9, 2020


Shhh! Books I'm Giving as Gifts This Holiday
Spoiler alert: If you're someone I give gifts to for a fall birthday or for the holidays, this roundup might be a surprise ruiner! Or...
Nov 20, 2020


Review of Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer
Blood reads like an unflinchingly honest journal; Moorer sifts through memories, photos, joyful moments; she feels rage, sadness, and loss.
Oct 15, 2020


Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year
01 Say Nothing 02 Just Mercy 03 The Spy and the Traitor 04 Catch and Kill 05 White Fragility 06 Hidden Valley Road
Oct 2, 2020


Review of Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
Young men share their experiences with intimacy, yearn to explore love, relationships, and evolved masculinity.
Oct 1, 2020


Review of A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir by Colin Jost
Colin Jost retraces his journey toward and through his fifteen seasons at Saturday Night Live and offers insights that I found absorbing.
Sep 13, 2020
