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June 2025

Announcing My Brilliant Ferrante: a community reading & reflection series for Women in Translation Month
Join me in reading Elena Ferrante for the month of August
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The 25 most iconic first sentences I've ever read
An opening sentence = the analog hook
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A funny book about HIV/AIDS? Bobby Finger did it.
Plus queer fiction recommendations and a chat with the author
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Sad girl lit, but make it a memoir
On Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die by Arianna Rebolini
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May 2025

Five books that made me feel this month
May 2025 reading roundup
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How did a plotless 136-page novel win the prestigious Booker Prize?
I understood by the first page
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Five surprising books I made my husband read (and he loved)
An intimate look at how reading helped my husband through the early days of sobriety and beyond
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Suleika Jaouad on the journal: It's a repository of memory, a place to catch moments as if in amber
On the instant New York Times bestseller, The Book of Alchemy + a giveaway 📖
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A good story doesn’t just copy life, it pushes back on it.
April reading pushed back on it all: love, power, poverty, and war.
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April 2025

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