How to Read a Book, by Monica Wood

Think a moment on the absolutely worst thing you’ve ever done in your life.  And I don’t mean that time you rushed by an old woman who’d dropped her purse on the floor, lip balms and prescription bottles rolling everywhere (I was in a hurry, but I still have guilt).  No, I mean THAT thing.  […]

Yellowface, by R. F. Kuang

Yellowface is a book about book publishing that should probably be put under the category of “what NOT to read” when you’re about to take your own tiny words written on a leaf and toss it into the hurricane that is AMAZON.  Not only is Kuang such a powerhouse of a writer that she intimidates […]

The Cemetery of Untold Stories, by Julia Alvarez

I’ll always remember The Cemetery of Untold Stories as the book I was reading when my uncle died.  I’m not done reading the book yet, as he just passed two days ago, but my mind is filled with so many ideas about where this book crosses with his death, I decided to take the book’s […]

Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard

If you’re looking for a book that explores everything you love about the written word, this is the book for you, something Ms. Dillard sums up eloquently as she dedicates her book to the people who, “if you told them the world would end in ten minutes, would try to decide—quickly—what to read.”  She refers […]