If you’ve been wondering, I haven’t sustained a month-long food poisoning or been abducted by a swarm of insatiable book clubbers looking for book recommendations, nor I have I run away to Ireland (yet).…
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Curtis Sittenfeld fascinates me. American Wife is the third book of hers I’ve read and each one is like a snowflake: completely original and beautifully rendered. For the week I read this one, American Wife…
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Elizabeth Gilbert’s exploration of creativity in her book, Big Magic, is fascinating, inspirational, and – as the title implies – oftentimes, magical. She claims it’s an instructional piece to live a creative life, but I think…
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There is a specific happiness that comes with walking outside while listening to a motivational audiobook. Just the act of consuming something designed to improve you improves you. Because taking a step toward self-improvement is…
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Though it’s a novel, The Time in Between reads more like an autobiography of the most incredible woman you’ve ever met. Reading it is a commitment – it’s a long historical fiction that requires more than a…
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If you know me, you probably also know about my obsession with Liane Moriarty. When I talk to my husband about books and start a sentence with something like, “I just started a new…
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Dear Fang, With Love is the kind of book that makes you want to climb into the author’s brain and explore: it’s bizarre, introspective, whimsical, and wildly smart.…
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Though this was my second time to listen to this audiobook, as soon as its credits rolled, I had the urge to rewind to the start and listen to it all over again. Somehow,…
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Well, it’s happened again. For the second time this year. I’m in a reading rut. I’m sure you can empathize; every reader can. Every reader has gone through those few days, or weeks, or –…
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“The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.” – Betty Friedman, who…
