Last weekend was Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon, one of my favorite book nerd activities. I was only able to participate casually, but I still managed to finish two print books from Mount TBR and squeeze in almost six hours of reading. I also didn’t post much, other than some highlights from the day in my Instagram stories, [...]
Book Review
More book reviews! I am terrible at writing blog post titles and introductions. Oh well! This week I’m sharing thoughts on a couple of books I read back in February for Black History Month. I also talked about them both on the podcast I do for Book Riot, For Real, during an episode about contemporary [...]
Earlier this week I got to attend a talk by a journalist I respect a lot, Alex Kotlowitz. He was on tour promoting his newest book, An American Summer, a look at a violence in Chicago in a single summer. I haven’t gotten to read the book yet, but listening to him talk about his reporting [...]
I feel like I’ve written posts before before about how I prefer my fiction with a bit of weird – a curious premise, a bit of magic, or even outright fantasy (although I still struggle with high-concept, high fantasy titles). The three books I’m writing about today all have their own bits of weird – a [...]
At the end of last year, I read two books – one nonfiction, one a memoir – that helped me organize some of goals and plans for this year via my One Little Word, whole. They’re both books about what it means for women to live life without a template to follow, and finding new [...]
One of my favorite things is when my reading starts to fall into patterns that I don’t notice until after I finish reading. This month’s reading theme is deceit, and includes three books — two fiction, one nonfiction — about lies and the people who tell them (mostly spies and con men). Two of the [...]
Despite what felt like a pretty slow month of reading in September, I actually finished three excellent new nonfiction releases. Here are some thoughts! The Class by Heather Won Tesoriero In The Class, journalist Heather Won Tesoriero spent a year following “a visionary high school science teacher and his award-winning students” through their academic and personal pursuits. The teacher, [...]
I devoted all of my reading time and energy over the last week to a single book, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser. This Pulitzer Prize-winning biography was my September book club selection, which propelled me through a book where the length might have otherwise been intimidating. I hate that I’m a [...]
In every aspect of my life, I’m trying to adopt a new mindset — keep it simple, stupid. Hence, the very obvious title for this blog post! Because of my work with Book Riot, I feel like I’m pretty well read in the world of new nonfiction. My fiction reading, on the other hand, tends [...]
For the last year or so, I’ve been obsessed with memoirs by people from the Obama administration. Our current political culture is such a trash fire that it’s giving me major nostalgia for like… three years ago, a simpler time. Today I’ve got quick reviews of two recent political memoirs, both that I enjoyed very much [...]
