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My favorite book of 2024 so far

I synthesize Dr. Becky's GOOD INSIDE so you don't have to read it and feel bad about yourself

Greta & Sabine & Flavia & Piñon

Minnesota State Fair Foods & Book Pairings

First Love

There's Nothing Wrong with Her

Three craft books I'm reading while editing my novel

In All Fours, Miranda July goes where everyone is too afraid to

Six books I purchased in the last week and why I bought them

What is so brilliant about Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet?

Good as she ever was

The six best books I've read in 2024

Books are the most beautiful common denominator

Shame blocks the paths toward freedom and autonomy, cajoling us into choices that may not serve us in the long run. — Melissa Petro

When I feel like nothing I do is good enough, reading is.

I write because it's the thing I have to offer, the sharpest skill I have. — Jami Attenberg

Like every true love, that of the reader is blind. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Two Feel-Good Book Recommendations to Kick Off the Long Weekend

The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short. But that isn’t a reason for unremitting despair. — Oliver Burkeman

Beauty for beauty's sake

It's not what they remember but who they become

A first quarter check-in with my Goodreads "reading threshold" goal.

Reflection is how we heal ourselves and how we can fix any problem or heartbreak. — Brenda Lozano

Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around. — Stephen King

Point of view, taste, and how to translate my book recommendations and inform your reading

Dissent in itself can be exciting, can bring light into gray corners. — Francis Brown

Nothing is more alluring than a mother-before-she-was-a-mother, an unknowable and irresistible figure. — Julia May Jonas

If the health and wellness industry is maddening and impossible to fit into, Self Care by Leigh Stein is the antidote.

For the dreamers who sat down to tell a story that no one asked them to write. — Courtney Maum

You’ll always be stuck in a state of fear if you’re always trying to keep your distance from it. — Barry McDonagh

My Most Recommended Books

Come & Get It

Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine. — Melissa Febos

The waves that accompany climate grief have been rising and falling within me for many years. — Elizabeth Rush

We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again. ― Katherine May

Books are the mirrors of the soul. ― Virginia Woolf

I write in order to break down the wall, to express myself in a pure way. ― Jhumpa Lahiri

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results. ― James Clear

2024 Reading Ins and Outs