The beginning of March was slow reading for me, which, looking past over the last couple years, is regular for me. I read three books over the first 3/4ths of the month, then binged on 5 books in the last… Read more ›
These are the books I read over the last two weeks. Girl on a Wire by Gwenda Bond is an intriguing little book. Jules Maroni is a high wire artist in a family of circus folk, and when an opportunity presents… Read more ›
Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury by Alison Light is utterly fascinating. It’s a biography of the women (and a few of the men, but the focus is on the women) who worked (and… Read more ›
I went on a bit of an Agatha Christie binge this week, and that set me on a roll for the rest of the week. Cards on the Table: Hercule Poirot Investigates  begins with a dinner party that consists of… Read more ›
These are the books I read in January. It always takes me longer to read non-fiction than fiction, so I spent a long time on not so many books this month. Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne Lamott… Read more ›
Since it’s the last day of the year, I’d better catch up on the last books I read in December. Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fairis a collection of articles from Vanity Fair written between… Read more ›
It’s not the end of the year yet, but I thought I’d put up the books that I enjoyed most this year. Usually when I do this, I look over the list of books I read for the year and… Read more ›
These are the books I read this week. Bad Feminist: Essaysby Roxane Gay is a book that I think every single person would benefit from reading. It is just so good. Roxane Gay is so honest, so clear in her… Read more ›
Every year around this time I get behind on writing about the books I’m reading to the point that I just want to throw in the towel rather than catch up. So these are the books that I’ve read… Read more ›
Here are the books I’ve been reading. Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Centuryby Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger was a great read. The ups and downs of the Taylor/Burton relationship are all laid out, and there’s lots… Read more ›
