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…
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Do y’all remember the scene in Annie Hall where Woody Allen is telling Diane Keaton how much he loves her? But the mere word, love, isn’t enough to express his happiness? “I lurve you,” he says. “I loave you.…
