I was texting with a friend about the box of books I sent him last week. He said they are motivating him to finally finish the novel he’s been reading for…well I’ll just say it’s been quite a while now. I said, “You’re still slogging […]
While I read mostly fiction, I write strictly non-fiction. I make an effort to read from all genres. From personal development to science to memoir, here are six that have rocked my world so far this year. Give ’em a try, I promise you’ll learn […]
At this time last year, I was having mixed feelings about the book club I’d been in for a few years. On one hand, it was a group of close girlfriends who I enjoyed spending time with. For the most part, everyone read the book, […]
If you pay attention to bestseller lists, you’ve probably read Where the Crawdads Sing by now. It’s spent a billion weeks at the top of The New York Times Bestseller list and was Reese Witherspoon picked it for her book club. Part of what makes […]
Today’s author interview is with Ali Wenze, a writer I “met” a couple years ago through Instagram. Her first book was published in May of this year (I was lucky enough to read an advanced copy) and I’ve enjoyed seeing her getting the air time […]
One of my posts that still gets a lot of traffic is about books with non-human narrators. Since the majority of most fiction has human protagonists and narrators, it can be fun to get a glimpse into a different kind of life. As I was […]
Last weekend, my local book club met for our September meeting to discuss The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner. I struggled with the bleak nature of this novel and was eager to find thought provoking discussion questions. I searched online and found questions posted on […]
At first glance, September looks like a dud of a reading month for me. I finished ten books this month, as opposed to twenty-one in August! That’s a big difference, until you compare page numbers (not that I’m actually counting them!) I read a couple […]
