As you know, I tend to be pretty hard on thrillers. So what does it take for me to really love one, besides You? I guess it just has to be well written, have multiple…
Category: Favorites
Quick takes- summer favorites edition
Young Jane Young. Oh man, did I love this book. This is really sharp, feminist, and funny. In a nutshell, it's about a Lewinsky-esque scandal and how she and her family dealt with the aftermath.…
If we can’t get rid of guns, let’s at least do this five dollar thing.
"If guns were banned, then how would men kill their wives? How would men kill themselves? How would men exact revenge on the world for not giving them everything they'd ever wanted?" So, reading How…
Once Less, with feeling
Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young. Yes! It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and…
May this be the last Best of 2017 list you read this year
Took me a while to get to this, but here are my favorites that I read last year. Super top favorites: All Grown Up. My absolute favorite of the year. The only book I actually…
All treat, no trick
Pachinko has nothing at all to do with Halloween, but my copy is due back today, and it's an instant favorite, so here we are. This is the kind of book that makes me feel…
Don’t say I didn’t warn you
I realized recently that putting the 'not for everyone' tag on a book review is essentially a guarantee that I will read it. (On the flip side, putting the 'written by Jonathan Franzen' tag guarantees…
The book of today
This summer, one of my most trusted reader friends read an ARC of The World of Tomorrow, and said it was one of the best books she'd read in years. I'm so glad she did,…
I’m not a kid, I happen to be 18
Were Judy Blume books essential reading for you when you were young? She certainly was for me and all my friends, but all these years later, I'm still never sure quite how universal the Judy…
One thing leads to another…
I had a few reasons for reading Last Things this weekend. For one, I love graphic memoirs, in fact, they're typically the only memoirs I can stand. I also tend to be in pressing-on-a-bruise mode…